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07/02/2008
Clay Felker
An appreciation of Clay Felker
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An appreciation of magazine editor and journalist Clay Felker who died on July 1, 2008 with Kurt Andersen.
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Thank you for the nice eulogy and appreciation for a man who became an inspiration for me throughout my career. I have never been to New York and yet felt a part of it for many years as a subscriber to New York ; today it's obvious that many magazines had tried over the years to duplicate the energy it comprised on every page, especially as it often was the single voice for what was coming around the bend in America. No other publication came close for us hopefuls, beginning our run at New Journalism. Clay Felker was the beacon.
"Self-centered, obnoxious and revolting", eh? I saw Mr. Felker as quite cultural, thoughtful, and involving! I liked the way he got involved, put himself "out there" (as Edward Albee advised at this table), and wrote in the voice "Of who we were". Alienation be damned, this man entered the arena. Mr. Felker, Mr. Naguib Sawiris (also last night) both insisted on direct personal involvement. America should not wallow in what Vance Packard bemoaned as a culture of "spectators-consumers". I hope this conversation is reprised again by Mr. McCullough on Friday, perhaps in connection with his words on the Bradley Project's "E. Pluribus Unum" report. It has special relevance in an election year.
I well remember the first issues of New York magazine as a shockingly faithful mirror of every self-centered, obnoxious and revolting stereotype of the city and its ppl. I am sorry it has been around for 40 years.