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My first job was (in the late 1970s) was as an assistant editor for The New Leader. I could never make up my mind whether it was the most significant obscure magazine in America or the most obscure significant magazine in America, or maybe both. It was a biweekly that had been publishing since 1924. Some time after that, it was at or at least near the center of some important conversations in the country, for example, about Communism. But by the time I got there, although well known writers like John Simon, Daniel Bell and Walter Goodman frequented its pages, it was pretty far off on the margins. I left thirty-two years ago, but the magazine, under the editorship of a memorable man named Myron "Mike" Kolatch, persisted--in the ...read more