periodical editors

Editor Terry McDonell offers practical advice for how the editing process works, and the journalists, writers, and media personalities he has encountered along the way.

"[Humorous] essays about awkward run-ins with celebrities, the nature of celebrity, and what it says about our culture, by the Executive Editor of People Magazine"--Provided by the publisher.

The editor of Rip magazine chronicles rock music's coming of age from 1987 to 1994. He provides a backstage look at artists such as Kurt Cobain, Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, Axl Rose, and Steven Tyler among others.

David Loogan, an editor for a mystery magazine, is living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with Detective Elizabeth Waishkey and her daughter when he receives a manuscript detailing two murders with a third one yet to happen; meanwhile, a man has targeted three men who seem to have little in common besides their involvement in a bank robbery seventeen years ago for death.

The author, who died two days after the French publication of his book, tells of his life and feelings after suffering a brain stem stroke that left him unable to move his body or communicate in any way except through the blinking of his left eye.

Chronicles the friendship between "Time" magazine creator Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce, discussing their childhood and professional rivalries, creation of the nation's first newsmagazine, media empire, and Luce's betrayal of Hadden's legacy after Hadden's death.

Describes what it is like to be a magazine editor, providing information on the education and training requirements, day-to-day responsibilities, and history of the career.

The man who calls himself David Loogan is leading a quiet, anonymous life in the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He's hoping to escape a violent past he would rather forget. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, publisher of the mystery magazine Gray Streets--and into an affair with Laura, Tom's sleek blond wife. When Tom offers him a job as an editor, Loogan sees no harm in accepting. What he doesn't realize is that the stories in Gray Streets tend to follow a simple formula: Plans go wrong. Bad things happen. People die.--From publisher's description.