Amor de Cosmos

New York magazine has a great, long look at Conde Nast and the over-the-top personalities that run the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. I particularly like how the newspaper-publishing Newhouse family got into the magazine business:

Just before his 35th wedding anniversary, Sam, a tiny bulldog of a man, departed for work before dawn, as always, and returned later that day with a present for his wife: Vogue magazine, the jewel of Condé Nast’s five titles. “My father bought the company as a gift for my mother,” Newhouse likes to say.