• Amazon.com is in the hot seat for stripping gay and lesbian books of their sales rankings, something the bookseller is now calling a "glitch." [EW, WSJ]
• MSNBC is reportedly in the process of developing a weekend political show to be moderated by chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd. [NYO]
• More bad news for…
So. BlackBook editor (and former Page Six Magazine editor) Steve Garbarino is leaving his post. He's off to Maxim, which recently ditched their EIC (he's now at Heavy.com). BlackBook is trying to "butch" up a bit. Which really only partly explains their odd and entertaining coverage of the Preakness Stakes (including…
Steve Garbarino, the sorta Jeff Daniels look-a-like editor in chief of Black Book magazine, met his new wife when on "a snowy night in March 2005, at Hudson Bar and Books, in Manhattan, [he] was holding court with friends and drinking a dark and stormy." Garbarino, says the Times, "made some ridiculous drolleries,…
Remember a month ago when we told you that Steve Garbarino, graduate of several distinguished prose academies including Vanity Fair and Page Six: The Magazine, was rumored to be the next editor of BlackBook? Well, word on the street (just kidding - as if anyone "on the street" gives a shit) says it's a done deal, and…
Today's juicy magland rumor? Allegedly Steve Garbarino, the gossipeuse associated at various times with such glossy journals as Vanity Fair and Page Six: The Magazine, is telling folks he has been offered the editorship of BlackBook, which is vacant due to Aaron Hicklin's move to Out. We're reasonably sure it's true…
