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After a year and a half as editor of Harper's, the nation's oldest continuously published monthly (founded in 1850), Michael Kinsley, 32, was riding high. His provocative, sometimes flippant mix of articles won a National Magazine Award last month for general excellence. Within days, the magazine's board reported that lopping off unprofitable subscribers, which reduced the circulation from 325,000 to about 140,000, had cut annual losses from $2.4 million to $300,000. Nonetheless, last week Kinsley gave up one of the most visible jobs in magazine journalism for one of the more...
...move is a sentimental journey for Kinsley. A Rhodes scholar, he was a student at Harvard Law School in 1976 when New Republic Owner Martin Peretz named him managing editor. Among Kinsley's duties was editing TRB. He gave up editing in 1981 because he "preferred writing," but within six months he took the Harper's post "because it looked like a great job." Says Peretz: "Michael believes in institutions, and TRB is an institution...
...least status or hierarehially conscious person I know," he said, commenting on Kinsley's shift from editing to writing...
Peretz originally made Kinsley the managing editor of The New Republic in 1976, during the writer's third year at Harvard Law School...
...Kinsley served as The New Republic's editor and senior editor--the title he will reassume--before leaving...