‘New York’ Magazine’s Scriberia Explained

Uh-oh — Vulture has entered our Tudum phase. No sooner had we finished covering And Just Like That …, a show in which we were an unseen supporting player, then along came Inventing Anna, a show set in a fake version of our old office, where the walls are redder, the views better, and the senior editors more villainous (and also straighter).

At the risk of becoming too inside baseball, there is one element of Inventing Anna I must take issue with. As writer Jessica Pressler explained to Vulture, much of what you see on the show has been fictionalized to heighten the drama. But one sneaky element of New York Magazine lore has managed to make the…