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institution1933–present

Esquire

Disciplines:
journalism
publishing
masculinity/men's culture
literature/literary nonfiction

Summary

American men's magazine founded in 1933 — which published major literary nonfiction including Tom Wolfe's Noyce essay, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, and others — and which served as a primary venue for New Journalism's most important work.

Core Contribution

Served as the primary publication platform for New Journalism — publishing the most important long-form literary nonfiction of the 1960s–80s — making it as important to literary nonfiction as The New Yorker was to a different register of the same form.

Historical Influences

Arnold Gingrich

Intellectual Lineage

Arnold Gingrich Chicago Magazine HeritageMen's Literary Magazine

Contemporaries & Peers

The New Yorker Harper'sAtlantic Monthly

Minds Influenced

New Journalism publicationsMen's magazine industryLiterary nonfiction standards

Intellectual Posterity

Esquire magazine Dubious Achievement AwardsTom Wolfe Noyce essay

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