{"product_id":"highbrow-lowbrow-brilliant-despicable-fifty-years-of-new-york-magazine-9781501166846","title":"Highbrow  Lowbrow  Brilliant  Despicable: Fifty Years of New York Magazine","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York  the city. New York  the magazine. A celebration.  The great story of New York City in the past half-century has been its near collapse and miraculous rebirth. A battered town left for dead  one that almost a million people abandoned and where those who remained had to live behind triple deadbolt locks  was reinvigorated by the twinned energies of starving artists and financial white knights. Over the next generation  the city was utterly transformed. It again became the capital of wealth and innovation  an engine of cultural vibrancy  a magnet for immigrants  and a city of endless possibility. It was the place to beif you could afford it.  Since its founding in 1968  New York Magazine has told the story of that citys constant morphing  week after week. Covering culture high and low  the drama and scandal of politics and finance  through jubilant moments and immense tragedies  the magazine has hit readers where they live  with a sensibility as fast and funny and urbane as New York itself. From its early days publishing writers like Tom Wolfe  Jimmy Breslin  and Gloria Steinem to its modern incarnation as a laboratory of inventive magazine-making  New York has had an extraordinary knack for catching the Zeitgeist and getting it on the page. It was among the originators of the New Journalism  publishing legendary stories whose authors infiltrated a Black Panther party in Leonard Bernsteins apartment  introduced us to the mother-daughter hermits living in the dilapidated estate known as Grey Gardens  launched Ms. Magazine  branded a group of up-and-coming teen stars the Brat Pack  and effectively ended the career of Roger Ailes. Again and again  it introduced new words into the conversationfrom foodie to normcoreand spotted fresh talent before just about anyone.  Along the way  those writers and their colleagues revealed what was most interesting at the forward edge of American culturefrom the old Brooklyn of Saturday Night Fever to the new Brooklyn of artisanal food trucks  from the Wall Street crashes to the hedge-fund spoils  from The Godfather to Girlsin ways that were knowing  witty  sometimes weird  occasionally vulgar  and often unforgettable. On The Approval Matrix  the magazines beloved back-page feature  New York itself would fall at the crossroads of highbrow and lowbrow  and more brilliant than despicable. (Most of the time.)  Marking the magazines fiftieth birthday  Highbrow  Lowbrow  Brilliant  Despicable: 50 Years of New York draws from all that coverage to present an enormous  sweeping  idiosyncratic picture of a half-century at the center of the world. Through stories and images of power and money  movies and food  crises and family life  it constitutes an unparalleled history of that citys transformation  and of a New York City institution as well. It is packed with behind-the-scenes stories from New Yorks writers  editors  designers  and journalistic subjectsand frequently overflows its own pages onto spectacular foldouts. Its a big book for a big town.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666038120501,"sku":"ByrdShop_1501166840","price":76.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781501166846.jpg?v=1782416304","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/highbrow-lowbrow-brilliant-despicable-fifty-years-of-new-york-magazine-9781501166846","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}