RIP: New York Magazine Founding Editor Barbara Goldsmith
She lent Clay Felker a very critical $6,500.
Remember when book reviewers would praise a title as ‘moth-to-flame reading’? That wonderful expression, employed by Newsday in 1980 (and likely today to be replaced by something along the lines of ‘millennial-to-smartphone’), is recalled by New York Times obituary writer William Grimes in his tribute to the accomplishments of Barbara Goldsmith.
Goldsmith, who died over the weekend at age 85, was a founding editor of New York magazine. She was also an author, who got that part of her life going in spectacular fashion with the book Little Gloria… Happy at Last:
In 1974, Ms.
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