Kevin Sessums, the celebrity journalist, has smoked a joint with Heath Ledger in Prague; he's sparred with Barry Diller; he's even been scolded by Barbra Streisand for not mentioning how "f*ckable" she is in a story he once wrote for Vanity Fair. But nothing rivals his tête-à-tête with Courtney Love:

When Matt Breen, the editor-in-chief of the 45-year-old LGBT magazine, The Advocate, came out to his parents in 1995, Ellen DeGeneres was still in the closet, Clinton's Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy was in full swing and the notion of "gay marriage" was laughably unforeseeable. Despite the unwelcoming climate,...

Imagine writer-director Paul Schrader's delight when The New York Times Magazine, the bastion of cultural taste and respectability, called to write a piece about his latest directorial effort, The Canyons. Despite having penned cinematic classics like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ, Schrader's signature flicks --...

Last year, on November 7, the inaugural editorial staff of Ms. celebrated the publication's 40th anniversary in New York City. Co-founding editors Gloria Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin took a moment to bask in the success of their revolutionary magazine and the strides women have made since its founding in...

Andrew Goldman, the "Talk" columnist at The New York Times Magazine, may be one of the shittiest fact-checkers in history, or at least, he seems to think so. When he came to New York City in 1996, he snagged a plumb checking gig at New York magazine that lasted all...

When mega millionaire Chris Hughes bought The New Republic last March, he asked Frank Foer to take the editorial reigns of the eminent magazine. But Foer didn't exactly leap at the chance. He'd already given a decade of his life to the storied publication and was enjoying a...

Last September, the novelist John Reed hosted "Revise & Recant," a National Book Critics Circle event, where guilt-laden book reviewers took center stage to retract unfair or unnecessarily harsh critiques they'd written in the past. One by one, the repentant pundits carved out a space for themselves within that quintessentially...

Writer-director Sean Baker may not (yet) be a household name, but his fan base is growing exponentially with his latest effort, Starlet, a cinematic gem.

The film follows the forging of an unlikely relationship between a bristly octogenarian, Sadie (newcomer Besedka Johnson), who harbors an unfulfilled, girlish dream of visiting...

Accepting an award from the Jewish Women's Archive last year, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a longtime activist, pointed to the Statue of Liberty, just visible in the foggy distance, and quipped, "I love her, even though she's not Jewish." Over murmurs of laughter, she spoke of her love for Lady Liberty's...

When a 21-year-old Cindi Leive arrived on the scene at Glamour magazine in 1988, she'd just wrapped up an internship at the legendary literary journal, The Paris Review, a publication robust with cultural vitality and consequence. At the time, the newly minted Swarthmore grad was sure that her editorial gig...

It's a crisp sunny morning in late December. I'm sitting in my therapist's lobby in Midtown Manhattan, anxiously waiting for my girlfriend, Sabrina, to arrive. She's visiting my shrink with me so we can duke out our premarital differences, which can be boiled down to one, ever-nagging question: why, after...

Wearing a red hoodie with ATHLETICS in big, bold letters scrawled across the chest, seven year-old Connor Flynn chokes up on a metal bat over a T-Ball. He looks steadily at his target, heeding the axiom that's been pounded into every Little Leaguer's head: "Keep your eyes on the ball."...