Recently Dead

Clay Felker, the founding editor of New York magazine, died this morning at home in New York City after battling cancer of the throat and mouth. He was 82. Felker's idea for creating a magazine devoted to a single city and mixing lively content with smart writing (the "new journalism") revolutionized the periodical genre and started a trend that spread to other cities across the country. New York debuted as a supplement to the New York Herald Tribune in 1964; years later, the first issue of Gloria Steinem's Ms. magazine received the same treatment inside the pages of New York. Among New York's most influential features were Tom Wolfe's "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's," about the Black Panthers benefit party thrown by conductor Leonard Bernstein in 1970, and Nik Cohn's "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night," which later became the film Saturday Night Fever. (New York Times; photo: Paul Hosefros/NYT)

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