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The critical buzz on a book commemorating an influential magazine.: Spy: The Funny Years (Melcher Media/Miramax Books/Hyperion). This 20th-anniversary retrospective of the magazine founded by Graydon Carter (now editor of Vanity Fair) and media heavyweight Kurt Andersen—known for such features as "Separated at Birth," the oft-imitated column that juxtaposed photos of different celebrities and asked, tongue firmly in cheek, whether they were really related—has critics waxing nostalgic about its spot-on humor and unparalleled creativity. New York magazine remarks that the magazine's editors and writers, not to mention its readers, "still speak wistfully about Spy's perfectly balanced, perfectly piquant cocktail of irony, brains, silliness, visual pizzazz, and reportorial ferocity, all packed into painfully small type." In the New York Times Book Review, Christopher Buckley reflects, "Spy didn't capture the zeitgeist—it was the zeitgeist." And Slate contributor Gideon Lewis-Kraus proffers in the Los Angeles Times that in its prime, Spy was "Trollope for yuppies." (Buy Spy: The Funny Years.)[more ...] (slate.com)
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The critical buzz on a book commemorating an influential magazine.: Spy: The Funny Years (Melcher Media/Miramax Books/Hyperion). This 20th-anniversary retrospective of the magazine founded by Graydon Carter (now editor of Vanity Fair) and media heavyweight Kurt Andersen—known for such features as "Separated at Birth," the oft-imitated column that juxtaposed photos of different celebrities and asked, tongue firmly in cheek, whether they were really related—has critics waxing nostalgic about its spot-on humor and unparalleled creativity. New York magazine remarks that the magazine's editors and writers, not to mention its readers, "still speak wistfully about Spy's perfectly balanced, perfectly piquant cocktail of irony, brains, silliness, visual pizzazz, and reportorial ferocity, all packed into painfully small type." In the New York Times Book Review, Christopher Buckley reflects, "Spy didn't capture the zeitgeist—it was the zeitgeist." And Slate contributor Gideon Lewis-Kraus proffers in the Los Angeles Times that in its prime, Spy was "Trollope for yuppies." (Buy Spy: The Funny Years.)[more ...] (slate.com)
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