Sid Evans was a fairly golden boy of New York magazine publishing: editor of Field and Stream, one-time editor of Men's Health. Blah blah blah. Hey, did you know I just read Celine's Journey To The End of the Night? (In the original, duh. Okay, with some help from the Ralph Manheim.) It's great. Now Evans—part of a wave of high-level defections from the newly-Bonnier owned Time 4 magazine group—is moving to Charleston, S.C. to edit Garden and Gun, the little magazine with the well-oiled PR machine. And so he gets a farewell from chronicler of the rich, Times dybbuk Eric Konigsberg.

Mr. Evans has a gentle manner, wears horn-rimmed glasses and speaks with a slight drawl. He is the kind of man who can wear a sports coat with a shoulder patch without irony. He is also, according to people who would know, a good shot with a 20-gauge (and a junior national skeet-shooting champion) and a man who can, when duty calls, stay out all night and hold his liquor with the best of them.

Mmm, hagiography. (And not a single mention of Meghan Daum.) Anyway, he's only lived in New York since 1993, after all. Short-timer!

New York Heresy: Editor Heads South [NYT]

[Sid Evans on right in photograph]

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