Jake Silverstein

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Jake Silverstein
Born1975 (age 48–49)
California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Education Wesleyan University
Hollins University
University of Texas at Austin
OccupationMagazine editor
Employer The New York Times Magazine
SpouseMary LaMotte
Children2

Jake Silverstein (born 1975) is an American writer and magazine editor. He is the editor-in-chief of The New York Times Magazine and the author of Nothing Happened and Then It Did, a novelized memoir.

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Early life and education

Silverstein was raised in Oakland, California, in a Jewish family, [1] [2] the eldest of two children. [3] His mother was a psychoanalyst and his father an architect. [3] He attended Wesleyan University [4] where he majored in English, and later earned an M.A. in English from Hollins University [3] and then an M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin's Michener Center for Writers [5] in 2006. [6] He was a Fulbright scholar in Zacatecas, Mexico, in 2002. [6]

Career

After graduating from college, Silverstein interned at Harper's in 1998, continued at the magazine for a year as a fact-checker, [6] then moved to The Big Bend Sentinel in Marfa, Texas in 1999. [3]

Silverstein was the editor of Texas Monthly from 2008 to 2014, during which time the magazine won four National Magazine Awards in 12 nominations. [3] [7] Under his tenure, the magazine had a circulation of approximately 300,000 and rising revenue, in contrast to many similar publications in the same period. [3] He became the editor of The New York Times Magazine in May 2014, [3] since which time the magazine has been a finalist for 14 National Magazine Awards and has won four. In 2017, the magazine story "The Fighter" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

He is the author of the hybrid memoir-novel Nothing Happened and Then It Did, which he wrote during his M.F.A. program [6] and published in 2010 [8] with W.W. Norton & Company. [9] [10]

1619 Project

As editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine , Silverstein has played a role in the 1619 Project, a view of the role of slavery in the history of the United States. Some historians argue the project contains factual inaccuracies and distortions in attributing slavery a central role in the American Revolution. [11] Silverstein has disputed those claims. [12] The author's essay for the project won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020, while the project itself has won many other honors. [13]

Personal life

He is married to archivist Mary LaMotte Silverstein, with whom he has two sons. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Marmer, Jake. "Murray Silverstein's Metaphysical Chickens". Forward. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  2. ↑ Silverstein, Mary (15 December 2021). "Interview with Jake Silverstein, Editor in Chief, New York Times Magazine". Jewish Theological Seminary. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pompeo, Joe (April 28, 2014). "New blood: Can a Texas transplant make the Times Magazine matter again?". Politico.
  4. ↑ "Nothing Happened and Then It Did: Jake Silverstein's New New York Times Magazine". Observer. 2015-02-20. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  5. ↑ Donnelly, Elisabeth (2014-05-01). "Who Is Jake Silverstein, New Editor of 'The New York Times Magazine'?". Flavorwire. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Texas Monthly editor Jake Silverstein brings fresh energy". Houston Chronicle. November 15, 2009. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  7. ↑ "Texas Monthly's Jake Silverstein is named New York Times Magazine editor". Archived from the original on 2018-06-10. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
  8. ↑ "NOTHING HAPPENED AND THEN IT DID". Kirkus Reviews. February 15, 2010. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  9. ↑ Kellogg, Carolyn (2010-04-18). "'Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction' by Jake Silverstein". Los Angeles Times. ISSN   0458-3035 . Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  10. ↑ Andrews, Michael (May 3, 2010). "Nothing Happened and Then It Did". Bomb Magazine. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  11. ↑ Wilentz, Sean (January 22, 2020). "A Matter of Facts The New York Times' 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims". The Atlantic.
  12. ↑ Silverstein, Jake (December 20, 2019). "We Respond to the Historians Who Critiqued The 1619 Project". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
  13. ↑ Barrus, Jeff (4 May 2020). "Nikole Hannah-Jones Wins Pulitzer Prize for 1619 Project". Pulitzer Center. Archived from the original on May 6, 2020. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
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