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39-627: Esquire is an American men's magazine . Currently published in the United States by Hearst , it also has more than 20 international editions. Founded in 1933, it flourished during the Great Depression and World War II under the guidance of founders Arnold Gingrich , David A. Smart and Henry L. Jackson while during the 1960s it pioneered the New Journalism movement. After a period of quick and drastic decline during

78-600: A men's magazine then, Esquire was "a big, unruly book, its contents unbound by formulaic notions of what belonged there," Carol Polsgrove wrote in It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun? (1995), her history of the Hayes era at Esquire . Hayes edited an anthology of Esquire's best writing of the 1960s called Smiling Through the Apocalypse , which was published in 1971. In 2013, his son Tom produced and directed

117-521: A plane crash in 1948, while Gingrich led the magazine until his own death in 1976. Smart died in 1952, although he left Esquire in 1936 to found a different magazine for the company, Coronet . The founders all had different focuses; Gingrich specialized in publishing, Smart led the business side of the magazine while Jackson led and edited the fashion section, which made up most of the magazine in its first fifteen years of publishing. Additionally, Jackson's Republican political viewpoints contrasted with

156-510: A Santa Claus hat, Andy Warhol disappearing in a can of Campbell's soup, and Muhammad Ali posing as St. Sebastian. Fiction editor Gordon Lish brought in stories by Raymond Carver . Diane Arbus contributed photographs. Robert Benton and David Newman thought up the Dubious Achievement Awards (and in their spare time wrote the screenplay for the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde ). More a general-interest magazine than

195-590: A broad male audience. Some skew toward men's fashion, others to health. Most are marketed to a particular age and income demographic . In the US, some are marketed mainly to a specific ethnic group, such as African Americans or Mexicans. Canada Belgium Others Japan India Others Men's lifestyle magazines ( lad mags in the UK and specifically men's magazines in North America) were popular in

234-637: A political candidate or position or party, but a breakthrough idea or product or Web site." The concept of the "Daily Endorsement Blog" was said to have emerged from Esquire ' s November 2008 issue called the "Endorsement Issue", in which, after 75 years, Esquire publicly endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time. The Daily Endorsement Blog was officially discontinued in April 2011. From 1969 to 1976, Gordon Lish served as fiction editor for Esquire and became known as "Captain Fiction" because of

273-477: A public television interview program, worked briefly as an editorial producer for (and, with Robert Hughes , the first cohost of) 20/20 , became editorial director of CBS magazines and then editor of California magazine. He wrote three books on Africa -- The Last Place on Earth , Three Levels of Time , and The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey , the last developed from a November 1986 essay in Life magazine and later

312-409: A thousand different women,' and 'can be whatever we want her to be.' (So, nothing.)". Waldman said the profiles "traffic in weirdo pious metaphors and exaggerations that aim to winkingly indicate how overcome a guy gets in the face of a gorgeous lady. But they just make men seem like drooling louts." National Magazine Awards Men%27s magazine This is a list of men's magazines from around

351-645: A year until the Spring/Summer issue ran for the last time in 2018. In 2010, the June and July issues were merged as were the December and January issues in 2015, and in 2018 the magazine moved to eight issues per year. In January 2009, Esquire launched a new blog—the Daily Endorsement Blog . Each morning the editors of the magazine recommend one thing for readers' immediate enjoyment: "not

390-544: The liberal Democratic views of Smart, which allowed for the magazine to publish debates between the two. Esquire initially was supposed to have a quarterly press run of a hundred thousand copies. It cost fifty cents per copy (equivalent to $ 11.77 today). However, demand was so high that by its second issue (January 1934), it transformed itself into a more refined periodical with an emphasis on men's fashion and contributions by Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott Fitzgerald , Alberto Moravia , André Gide , and Julian Huxley . In

429-680: The "worst president ever". A popular running gag featured in the "Dubious Achievements of 1990" edition involved especially egregious achievements headlined with "And then they went to Elaine's .", referring to a popular restaurant in New York City that closed in May 2011. Esquire did not publish "Dubious Achievement Awards" for 2001, but resumed them with the 2002 awards, published in the February 2003 issue. "Dubious Achievement Awards" were discontinued in 2008, according to an editor's note in

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468-843: The 1940s, the popularity of the Petty Girls and Vargas Girls , particularly among the Armed Forces provided a circulation boost, but also proved controversial: in 1943, the Democratic United States Postmaster General Frank Comerford Walker brought charges against the magazine on behalf of the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt , which alleged that Esquire had used the US Postal Service to promote "lewd images". Republicans opposed

507-598: The 1990 and 2000s, focusing on a mix of "sex, sport, gadgets and grooming tips". From the early 2000s, sales of these magazines declined very substantially as the internet provided the same content (and particularly more graphic pornography) for free. Colombia Others UK Scandinavia Harold Hayes Born April 18, 1926, in Elkin, North Carolina , Harold Hayes earned an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest College , worked for United Press in Atlanta , served in

546-608: The 1990s, the magazine revamped itself as a lifestyle-heavy publication under the direction of David Granger . Esquire was first issued in October 1933 as an offshoot of trade magazine Apparel Arts (which later became Gentleman's Quarterly ; Esquire and GQ would share ownership for almost 45 years). The magazine was first headquartered in Chicago and then, in New York City. It was founded and edited by David A. Smart , Henry L. Jackson and Arnold Gingrich . Jackson died in

585-548: The Esquire Magazine Group) launched the New York Woman magazine as something of a spin-off version of Esquire aimed at a female audience. The company split up at the end of the year, and Esquire was sold to Hearst , with New York Woman going its separate way to American Express Publishing, being published until 1992. The arrival of male-oriented lifestyle publications during the early 1990s and

624-475: The January 2008 issue, considering that the overabundance of imitators had made the feature superfluous. However, after a nine-year hiatus, the feature was revived in the January 2017 issue with a skewering of 2016 events. The annual Sexiest Woman Alive feature ran between 2003 and 2015, billed as a benchmark of female attractiveness and consisting of a photoshoot and profile of the winning woman. Originally, it

663-466: The Marines, moved to New York City to work for a small magazine called Pageant , and wound up in 1956 at Esquire , where he battled with several other young editors, among them Clay Felker (who went on to found New York magazine), for the job of top editor. Hayes won that contest, becoming first managing editor and then, on October 1, 1963, editor. After Hayes left Esquire in 1973, he hosted

702-678: The authors whose careers he assisted. Lish helped establish the career of writer Raymond Carver by publishing his short stories in Esquire , often over the objections of Hayes. Lish is noted for encouraging Carver's minimalism and publishing the short stories of Richard Ford . Using the influential publication as a vehicle to introduce new fiction by emerging authors, he promoted the work of such writers as T. Coraghessan Boyle , Barry Hannah , Cynthia Ozick , Reynolds Price and William Harrison . In February 1977, Esquire published "For Rupert – with no promises" as an unsigned work of fiction: this

741-586: The basis for the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist . Hayes' personal papers are stored at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem , North Carolina. The papers include correspondence with many of the famous writers Hayes worked with throughout his career. He died in 1989 in Los Angeles, California , 13 days before his 63rd birthday, leaving a widow, Judy Kessler Hayes (he

780-538: The caption, "Why is this man laughing?" However, the February 2006 "Dubious Achievement Awards" used the caption under a photo of W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official revealed in 2005 to be " Deep Throat ", the source for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to uncover the Watergate scandal . The magazine discontinued the Nixon photo in February 2007, referring to a poll stating that George W. Bush had surpassed Nixon as

819-490: The figurines in the 1950s), and beginning in 1962, this graphic would be featured as the dot on the "I" of the logo until this was changed in 1978. After then, the character would be occasionally revived, most notably during the 1980s and 1990s, a short-lived "Esky" award given to popular rock bands during the 2000s and during Jay Fielden's tenure in the 2010s. Under Harold Hayes , who ran it from 1961 to 1973, Esquire became as distinctive as its oversized pages, helping pioneer

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858-432: The first reports of American atrocities committed against Vietnamese civilians. Like many other magazines of the era, Esquire shrank from the traditional large-magazine format (about 10 + 1 ⁄ 4  in ×  13 + 3 ⁄ 8  in or 260 mm × 340 mm) to the smaller standard letter size ( 8 + 1 ⁄ 2  in × 11 in or 220 mm × 280 mm) in 1971. The magazine

897-425: The hints were abandoned. The feature was criticized for objectifying women. In a Slate article following Penélope Cruz 's 2014 Sexiest Woman Alive profile, Katy Waldman called the article the "latest icky entry in the icky genre" and describing it as using "rapt, creepy, overheated language to say practically nothing about his subject, except that she is 'impossibly beautiful,' 'has no physical flaws,' 'looks like

936-745: The lawsuit and in 1946 the United States Supreme Court found in Hannegan v. Esquire, Inc. , 327 U.S. 146 (1946) , that Esquire 's right to use the Postal Service was protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution . During the 1950s, Al Moore replaced Petty and Vargas as the main pinup illustrator for Esquire . Petty illustrated for Esquire from 1933 to 1956, Vargas

975-455: The magazine lost US$ 5 million. Felker sold Esquire in 1979 to the 13-30 Corporation, a Tennessee-based publisher, which reverted the magazine into a monthly, beginning with the July issue (dated both as of July 3 and 19). During this time, New York Woman magazine was launched as something of a spin-off version of Esquire aimed at a female audience. In 1986, the 13-30 Corporation (renamed as

1014-438: The magazine received nearly a hundred stories. Rick Moody , Jonathan Ames , Bret Anthony Johnston , Joshua Ferris , Yiyun Li , Aimee Bender , and ZZ Packer are among the notable writers included. For many years, Esquire has published its annual Dubious Achievement Awards , lampooning events of the preceding year. As a running gag , the annual article almost always displayed an old photo of Richard Nixon laughing, with

1053-415: The magazine, among which fashion photographer Gleb Derujinsky , and Richard Avedon . In spite of its success, the magazine under Granger became increasingly criticized for its focus on the so-called metrosexual culture (a criticism he previously had late in his GQ tenure). David Granger stepped down in 2016, being replaced by Jay Fielden, who revamped the magazine into its more classical up-market style. At

1092-510: The magazine. Other writers who have recently appeared in Esquire include Ralph Lombreglia , James Lee Burke , and Stephen King . In 2007, Esquire launched the Napkin Fiction Project, in which 250 cocktail napkins were mailed to writers all over the country by the incoming fiction editor, in a playful attempt to revive short fiction—"some with a half dozen books to their name, others just finishing their first". In return,

1131-567: The mid-late 1980s, the magazine's June "Summer Reading" issues featured a full-length fiction story accompanied by shorter pieces, all written for the magazine. Although the magazine greatly reduced its fiction content during the 1990s in line with most other magazines, it has nevertheless continued to publish fiction in occasion. Writer Elizabeth Gilbert debuted in Esquire in 1993, while Chris Adrian , Nathan Englander , Benjamin Percy , and Patrick Somerville among others have also contributed to

1170-473: The problems of the magazine industry during the middle of the decade led to a sustained decline in circulation that threatened the future of Esquire , which had relied upon an elegant, highly-literate audience (until the late 1970s, it published a "back-to-college" issue each September, and during the second half of the 1980s it published a year-end register featuring leading cultural figures under 40 years of age) but did not appeal to younger men. David M. Granger

1209-417: The same time, its political coverage became more comprehensive, following a trend among American magazine publications in general. After a series of shake-ups at Hearst's magazine division, Michael Sebastian became editor in mid-2019, reverting to its 2000s-era style. In September 2006, the magazine launched a special style-focused issue entitled The Big Black Book , which beginning in 2009 was published twice

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1248-405: The trend of New Journalism by publishing such writers as Norman Mailer , Tim O'Brien , John Sack , Gay Talese , Tom Wolfe , and Terry Southern . In the mid-1960s, Esquire partnered with Verve Records to release a series of "Sound Tour" vinyl LPs that provided advice and music for traveling abroad. In August 1969, Esquire published Normand Poirier 's piece, "An American Atrocity", one of

1287-518: The world. These are magazines (periodical print publications) that have been published primarily for a readership of men . The list has been split into subcategories according to the target audience of the magazines. This list includes adult magazines . Not included here are magazines which may happen to have, or may be assumed to have, a predominantly male audience - such as magazines focusing on cars, trains, modelbuilding and gadgets. The list excludes online publications. These publications appeal to

1326-519: Was a part of the "Women We Love" issue that had appeared yearly since 1988 (after being a section of "The Passions of Men" issue, June 1987), being initially titled "Woman of the Year". To build interest, the magazine would do a tease, releasing partial images of the woman in the issues preceding the November issue. By 2007, it had become the dominating story of the issue and to create an element of surprise

1365-551: Was divorced from his first wife, Susan Hayes), a daughter, Carrie O'Brien, and a son, Thomas. As an editor, Hayes appreciated bold writing and points of view, favoring writers with a flair for ferreting out the spirit of the time—writers like Gay Talese , Tom Wolfe , Norman Mailer , Michael Herr , John Sack , Gore Vidal , William F. Buckley , Garry Wills , Gina Berriault , and Nora Ephron . His editorial risks extended into graphic innovation by publishing Carl Fischer and George Lois 's iconic covers like Sonny Liston wearing

1404-466: Was hired to replace Petty in 1940 and was active until 1946. Beginning with its second number, a blond, pop-eyed, mustachioed character named "Esky" (created by cartoonists E. Simms Campbell and Sam Berman ), graced almost every Esquire front page for over a quarter of a century, depicting the refined character of the magazine and its readership, mostly in the form of figurines, although a stylized design of his face would often appear as well (replacing

1443-463: Was named editor-in-chief of the magazine in June 1997, fresh from a six-year stint at GQ , which he turned around from its fashion-heavy tradition. After his arrival, the magazine received numerous awards, including multiple National Magazine Awards. Its award-winning staff writers include Tom Chiarella , Scott Raab , Mike Sager , Chris Jones, John H. Richardson, Cal Fussman , Lisa Taddeo , and Tom Junod . Famous photographers have also worked for

1482-411: Was sold by the original owners to Clay Felker in 1977 (although Esquire Inc. kept its name until its acquisition by Gulf + Western in 1983). Felker reinvented the magazine as a fortnightly in 1978, under the title of Esquire Fortnightly , ditching the script logo that had been used (with minor tweaks) since 1933. However, the fortnightly experiment proved to be a failure, and by the end of that year,

1521-854: Was the first time it had published a work without identifying the author. Readers speculated that it was the work of J. D. Salinger , the reclusive author best known for The Catcher in the Rye . Told in first-person, the story features events and Glass family names from the story " For Esmé – with Love and Squalor ". Gordon Lish is quoted as saying, "I tried to borrow Salinger's voice and the psychological circumstances of his life, as I imagine them to be now. And I tried to use those things to elaborate on certain circumstances and events in his fiction to deepen them and add complexity." Other authors appearing in Esquire at that time included William F. Buckley , Truman Capote , Murray Kempton , Malcolm Muggeridge , Ron Rosenbaum , Andrew Vachss and Garry Wills . During

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