California Sunday magazine launched this past weekend. Rebecca Cohen caught up with editor Doug McGray to hear about the story behind the magazine: Back when editor Doug McGray was envisioning what he wanted his future magazine to look like, he thought about landing at the San Francisco airport. If I fly to New York for work, when I come home and get off the plane, California looks different, he says. The quality of light is different. The first issue of California Sunday Magazine lands this Sunday, October 5; its a new publication thats (gulp) in print and (gasp) not based in New York. McGray sees his brainchild as palpably Californian, written for a national audience but inspired by the visual and entrepreneurial culture of the West. McGray has spent years working for several publications that define themselves by geography, or at least reference it in their titles: the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and This American Life. Since 2008, hes been focused on a project so location-specific that if youre not in the right room on the right night, theres no way to see it: Pop-Up Magazine, an unrecorded live event whose issues consist of performances by authors, illustrators, filmmakers, and graphic designers. After Pop-Up Magazine sold out San Franciscos 2,700-seat symphony hall one night in 2012, McGray started thinking he could do more with the community the project had created. He loved the way it brought people together around stories. A magazine seemed like a logical next step.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:00:01 +0000
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