My Year With Adam Moss's New York Magazine
They were doing a piece on people's interesting closets. They came to see mine, all excited. They canceled.
They asked for my input on the best NYC parties in the last 40 years. I gave it, saying they'd have to give me attribution. They didn't run it.
They asked me to fill out a cultural poll of the year in review and offer pithy comments. They didn't use them.
They gave me an assignment. The interview subject wouldn't do it.
Here's to another exciting collaboration with New York in '09!
20 comment(s) / Post a Comment
the only thing going down is Adam Moss, who loves to fire old men columnists and hire cute young ones, which would be okay if the twinks had any brains -- or indeed could even write -- his latest crush, a terrible theatre reviewer, has just jilted him and gone to work at Newsweek -- bad karma, Adam-Poo !! Don't treat Miss Musto like this or your mag will be cursed!!!!
Posted On: Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 5:18PMOh Sanchez, that's priceless. No wonder New York sells for $5 a year on discount magazine dot com.
Posted On: Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 6:37PMDon't you know that superior writers are an intrinsic threat to the mediocre worms who managed to slither and slink into staff positions?
Posted On: Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 7:23PMI miss Clay Felker. For that matter, I miss the old Village Voice. (But Mr Musto just improves with time!)
Posted On: Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 11:54PMI miss Clay Felker. For that matter, I miss the old Village Voice. (But Mr Musto just improves with time!)
Posted On: Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 11:55PMDoes anybody remember the East Village Other? THAT! was a newspaper.
Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 6:32AMI'm insulted that any magazine executive would treat Michael Musto in such a fashion. I've been following his star-studded career, devoutly, since he used to be the inspiration for the "Goofus & Gallant" cartoon strip for Highlights for Children magazine in the 1960s.
Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 7:56AMI thought I liked that magazine until I read how they treated you...losers
Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 10:33AMMichael Honey,
SCREW NEW YORK MAGAZINE! - They have NO talent or class. We ladies know first hand.
Michael Musto's talent rocks the Village Voice with true class!
Toodles,
Miss Mitzi Gaynor, Norma Desmond, & Gwen Verdon
Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 11:14AMScruffy,
I have to admit I do remember the East Village Other, and very fondly. I started reading it when I was 12 and about a year later my parents found my back issues. After that I kept buying it but never brought it home again.I wish I had kept a few of the old issues. Would love to check them out now. But as I remember (vaguely) it was really outrageous, full of sex, drugs, rock n' roll and radical politics. There's nothing like it today. But back then there was real rebellious pop culture (and politics)to write about, not like the so-called "edgy" corporate pap today.
New York magazine? Please. It's glossy bullshit for yuppies.
Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 12:02PMOne thing we know is not in your closet is YOU.
Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 1:13PMAll the good stuff goes to the bottom boy these days. Maybe you should switch over M.
Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 10:27PMThanks GiorgioNYC. Just about the only solace for me having 70 yrs is that I was around for the Sixties. I hate it when old guys pine for the good ole days but that was a special time in the life. Living on the Lower East Side meant seeing Allen Ginsburg doing his shopping, Charles Mingus on his bike, concerts by The Fugs and Sun Ra in Tompkin Square, Abbie Hoffman and the Diggers Free store. We suddenly discovered that Jazz musicians wern't the only ones smoking dope. For a moment there was the feeling that the world was going to become enlightened and the freaks were not us but the uptights. What happened? IMHO people got scared by the prospect of real Freedom. They opted for Nixon and repression. They blew it.
Posted On: Sunday, Dec. 21 2008 @ 4:10AM
I agree with Scruffy. Only people "opted" for that paranoid, ugly, oily freak Richard Nixon because the conservatives were pulling the scare tactics ("Be afraid, be very afraid") even then that they have used, effectively, ever since: Be afraid of terrorists, Muslims, gay marriage, the homosexual agenda -- whatever the fuck THAT is -- drugs, sex, rock-and-roll, civil rights, civil unions, civility, and everything else in between. The world could have become enlightened, but everyone panicked.
They're cads, darling. They should be treating you like the goddess you are!
Posted On: Sunday, Dec. 21 2008 @ 12:55PMDon't let that mean editor tease you -ask for cash in advance for any submission. You're worth it!
Posted On: Monday, Dec. 22 2008 @ 3:10AMUh, I'm sor-ry but you like totally revitalized their image with your Marilyn pictorial. It was genius and one of the funniest things they've done all year. We laughed and laughed. Fuck 'em.
Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 23 2008 @ 4:45PMAs a newbie, I am always searching online for articles that can help me.
Thank you for sharing this !
Posted On: Wednesday, Sep. 30 2009 @ 5:06PM
