Urgent: Esquire Magazine
Using Garth Sundam’s equation, we can now accurately tell you who is the greatest human on Earth.
In the 1960s, Esquire helped pioneer the trend of New Journalism by publishing such writers as Norman Mailer, Tim O’Brien, John Sack, Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe.
In November 2008, Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive, Halle Berry, recreated a classic Esquire cover from December 2000, featuring Bill Clinton.
Esquire is a men’s magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition.
Chuck Klosterman issues his predictions for the coming century.
From 1969 to 1976, Gordon Lish served as fiction editor for Esquire and became known as “Captain Fiction” because of the authors whose careers he assisted.
Earlier this year, Luke Dittrich set out to find the lost aviator in the vast Nevada desert.
Using the influential publication as a vehicle to introduce new fiction by emerging authors, he promoted the work of such writers as T. Coraghessan Boyle, Barry Hannah, Cynthia Ozick and Reynolds Price.
The magazine did continue the Nixon photo in February 2007, referring to a poll stating that George W. Bush had surpassed Nixon as the “worst president ever”.
… the February 2006 “Dubious Achievement Awards” used the caption under a photo of W. Mark Felt, the former FBI official revealed in 2005 to be the “Deep Throat ” Watergate source for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
As the culmination of our anniversary celebration, Halle Berry who just had a baby, like, six months ago presents the final re-creations of classic Esquire covers.
In the 1940s, the popularity of the Petty Girls and Vargas Girls provided a circulation boost.
Eight years earlier, in this feature by Scott Raab, the legendary actor weighed his own mortality and concluded: “I’ve had a pretty good run.”
Founded in 1933, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.
The magazine was a canvas for many artists and illustrators like Abner Dean, Santiago Martinez Delgado, George Petty, TY Mahon and John Groth among others.
Larry Charles’s new movie Religulous, featuring Bill Maher’s take on the state of religion in America, opens this Friday.
Lish is noted for encouraging Carver’s minimalism and publishing the short stories of Richard Ford.
Featuring robot wars, near annihilation, and President Tom Brady.
For the October, 2008 75th Anniversary issue, it released what it billed as “The world’s first E-Ink cover” a battery-powered screen built into the cover of the issue.
Using fifteen different variables and a blackboard-sized equation, Geek Logik author Garth Sundam has determined a formula for greatness.
Esquire began as a racy publication for men, published by David A. Smart and Arnold Gingrich.
We thought this election would be a serious fight over the future of this country, but only one candidate showed up.
Another running gag has been headlining one especially egregious achievement, “And then they went to Elaine’s.”
Lois’ covers raised Esquire’s circulation in ten years from 500,000 to two million.
