Life as an Editor
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Frank Sinatra has been an integral part of GQ during two decades of leading years. In the early 80's, we tried to capture in our page's hsi brash, insouciant stlye and the elegance with which he crooned a lyric.Most late afternoons,a Sinatra CD would spin on my stereo and editors and writerswou congregate in my office, sometimes over cocktails, to discuss the day's events,vigourously debate story ideas or, simply, just listen to Ol' Blue Eyes.
The memories of those martinei fueld hours have a special poinancy now, as with this issue i will be stepping down as editor-in-chief.Surely,this is a time to reflect on the most gratifying,exciting twenty years of my life.I have been fortunate to share my time here with many of the most supremely talented, stimulating people in our business: Such editors as Martin Beiser,Elliot Kaplan, and David Granger: such writers as Alan Richman, James Elroy, Tina Junod,
Mike was a superb reprter and an exquisite writer who posessed the intelligence of our finest novelists.The political profiles he contributed to are the best we've ever published.
I told him there would be no war. He went anyway, and when
war broke out no one covered it better than Mike. Three peices he wrote were award winning books...