After this morning’s post on all the attention the NY Times is lavishing on Charles Bock, a few of you emailed suggestions as to how the one-two punch of the long Sunday magazine profile, soon to be followed by a front-page NYTBR review, came about. Those answers ranged from the silly (“Chip [McGrath], God bless him, probably just wanted to go someplace warm”) to the plausible (“find out whether Dan Menaker was involved”), but Occam’s razor gives us a very elegant solution: The common thread that runs between Bock, Benjamin Kunkel, and Curtis Sittenfeld is assistant director of publicity Jynne Martin (right).
That still leaves our question about the NYT magazine’s last feature on a woman novelist unanswered, though, so if you can remember when it happened, feel free to fill me in!