Podcast
Unexplainable
This new book by a New York Times reporter focused on the glitzy publishing empire Cond Nast. The book explored the logic behind how Cond Nast elevated its editors by helping pay for their mortgages so they could live in beautiful homes, making the company seem like an 'enchanted land.'
And the most important magazines were owned by Cond Nast, the glitzy publishing empire that's the focus of a new book by New York Times reporter Michael Grinbaum.
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This new book by a New York Times reporter focused on the glitzy publishing empire Cond Nast. The book explored the logic behind how Cond Nast elevated its editors by helping pay for their mortgages so they could live in beautiful homes, making the company seem like an 'enchanted land.'
And the most important magazines were owned by Cond Nast, the glitzy publishing empire that's the focus of a new book by New York Times reporter Michael Grinbaum.
The way Cond Nast elevated its editors, the way they paid for their mortgages so they could live in beautiful homes, there was a logic to it, which was that Cond Nast itself became seen as this kind of enchanted land.