Toronto's Luminato Festival partners with The New Yorker magazine

Luminato, the Toronto festival of arts and creativity, has announced that it is partnering with The New Yorker magazine, sponsored by RBC to present a series of lectures and panel discussions during the first weekend of the festival,June 12 & 13. The festival runs June 10 - 19. It is the first time The New Yorker magazine has curated a program of events for a festival other than its own. The

Tina Brown gets her due

Interesting longish post on the blog Gawker making the case that much of the good at David Remnick's New Yorker magazine is due to the superlative hires made by his predecessors, most particularly Tina Brown. Fascinating as such a parsing of the comings and goings can be for magazine junkies, even more fascinating is the sheer volume of talent that has flushed in and out of this iconic title in