Jay Fielden

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🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Jay Fielden: Rob Roy (2 1/2 ounces Dewar's 12 year scotch, 3/4 ounce sweet vermouth, bitters, Luxardo cherry) The former editor-in-chief of Men's Vogue, Town & Country, Esquire Magazine tells what it was like working alongside Anna Wintour at Vogue and whether Devil Wears Prada was close to the truth, his view of Tom Brady's fashion sense, his thoughts on the changing media landscape and how print can compete with the dynamism of social media, observations of the disappearance of newsstands and shoeshine stalls in Grand Central Station and elsewhere, and gives an editor's view of the Kardashians, the one book that most made him want to be a writer and editor, and tells of an impromptu Shakespearian riff with David Harbour.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.
0:03.5	You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of some of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind the scenes revelations.
0:24.5	Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug brunt today we're talking with jay fielden for years he's been a thought leader in the
0:28.4	magazine publishing business he began his career at the new yorker where he worked for eight years
0:32.6	then he stayed within the condonast family and moved over to Vogue magazine, where he was for five years
0:38.0	working alongside Anna Wintour until he went on and launched Men's Vogue, where he was editor-in-chief.
0:44.3	He was then editor-in-chief at Town and Country, and in 2016, became editor-in-chief at Esquire
0:49.5	magazine. And when I came across a New York Times profile piece on Jay describing him as having
0:55.0	the bellatrist whimsy of Oscar Wild and the gunslinger gusto of Wild Bill Hickok, I thought,
1:01.1	I have got to meet this guy. Jay, welcome. Thank you, Doug. It's great to be here, truly, truly.
1:07.2	A lot of fun. I'm always a little extra excited when the cocktail choice requires the cocktail shaker.
1:12.7	Me too.
1:13.0	So this is good stuff. We've got the Rob Roy going today. It makes a good sound. And we are going to be using the Dewers 12 year. And I know you're doing some work with Dewers. Is that right? Yeah, I just did a very cool project with them. it's always been a scotch that I've
1:08.5	felt, I've been very aware of
1:10.7	even before I could
1:11.7	legally drink it. cool project with them. It's always been a scotch that I've, you know, felt, I've been very
1:27.9	aware of even before I could legally drink it. And they approached me to do this very fun
1:34.8	Valentine's project where I would write some notes that people could send along with a personalized
1:43.7	bottle. And the notes are, I hope, amusing.
1:48.3	Maybe they have a little bit of that bellatrist whimsy to them.
1:52.6	And the 12-year-old was the star of the show, even though Dewers has a number of great scotches.
2:00.2	And just because they're blended, I should say, means nothing.
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