Spy Magazine
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Spy magazine was founded in 1986 by Kurt Andersen and E. Graydon Carter; it briefly ceased publication in 1994, returned, and finally died in 1998. Primarily a humor magazine, but also featuring some more serious journalism, the New York-based Spy was modeled loosely on the British magazine Private Eye. It specialized in intelligent, highly irreverent pieces targeting the American media and entertainment industries. Imitating Private Eye, it featured a "Separated At Birth?" column, in which resemblances between celebrities are displayed in side-by-side photographs.
Books
- Separated at Birth? (1988, ISBN 0385247443): A collection of photos from "Separated at Birth?"
- Spy Notes on McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City/Janowitz's "Slaves of New York"/Ellis's "Less Than Zero" and All Those Other Hip Urban Novels of the 1980s (1989, ISBN 0385247451): A Cliffs Notes-style look at the literature of the eighties
- Separated at Birth? 2: The Saga Continues (1990, ISBN 0385410999)
