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🗓️ 11 October 2017
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Esquire editor in Chief Jay Fielden joins Elvis Mitchell to discuss establishing his version of the famed lifestyle publication.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
0:14.5 | Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. What is man at its best? Well, the magazine Esquire has been asking that question for a long time. |
0:22.2 | And given it, this is the year that GQ is celebrating its 60th anniversary, I thought it would be a good time to talk to the editor-in-chief of the magazine that founded GQ 60 years ago, late of The New Yorker and town and country, and now editor of Esquire for going on two years now. Jay Field and Jay, |
0:38.7 | thanks so much for being here. Great to be here, Elvis. Thanks for that amazing introduction. |
0:42.5 | And as it happens, let's see, I think April 18 will be Esquire's 85th anniversary. So, |
0:50.2 | gives you a little perspective. It does. And one of the reasons I've always loved Escar is |
0:53.8 | just because Arnold Gingrich, like me, is from Michigan. |
0:56.7 | So I figure if you can bring some of that small town... |
0:59.2 | Are you a fly fisherman, too? |
1:02.6 | I'm not... I mean, I need fish, let alone being a fly fisherman. |
1:05.7 | But one of the things I wanted to talk to you about a little bit is that given that Esquire has always been about |
1:13.3 | a kind of a daring in writing and often writers daring themselves to write pieces, it seems |
1:19.0 | to be something that you've been, in fact, I think, about the Farrell piece, which really |
1:23.1 | had that kind of, the writer has that kind of relationship with him, with the, there's |
1:26.3 | him to sort of constant need to sort of figure out who and what they are. And that's one of the things that I think |
1:31.1 | is being kind of part of the Esquire ethos. Well, I love that you put it that way. I've, I've, |
1:37.2 | myself, you know, thought, thought of that same strain and Esquire of these big voices, which you know, you really associate with |
1:44.9 | the magazine, where there's Tom Wolfe or Norman Mailer, Gay Talies, Joan Didion, early on in |
1:49.8 | the 70s, the fiction. |
1:51.6 | Oh, even Nora Ephron, which people forget. |
1:53.0 | Norafron, absolutely, you know. And a lot of, you know, types of fiction writers that really |
1:58.7 | had big voices, like, or identified as stylists, like |
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