INTERVIEW magazine

I used to be a big fan of Interview magazine many years ago. I recently saw a copy at the newstand and remembered why I stopped buying it: they now increasingly have celebrities doing interviews with their fellow celebrities. Being an actor and pop star is one thing -- but to have them do interviews is a silly thing. Some are banal, most self-congratulatory.

Writing is a special thing and people whose calling is writing should be doing the interviews. That's why, as much as I adored Ingrid Sischy's enlightened editorial on each issue (towards the end of my Interview reading days, I was buying the magazine for Interview editor-in-chief Sischy's words and nothing else), I decided to not buy the magazine anymore.

Long ago, although there were celebrities writing for Interview, there were also writers telling readers about breakout stars and other creative types who are constantly pushing the envelope that we call life. That made the Interview magazines of old sensational reads.

Will those days come back? Anyone know?

   
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