Willie Morris's recollections of when he was hired to be an editor at Harper's magazine in 1963 give a glimpse of the New York magazine world as its old ways were dying and the new ways were yet to emerge. Then abruptly, he [Harper's editor in chief John Fischer] asked: "How would you like to come to work at Harper's?" "To do what?" "To be an editor. You've had some sturdy editorial experience, you've been around the country, your writing is adequate and sometimes better than adequate. We can't pay much, but if you're fool enough to want to live in New York, it'll get you by." "How much?" I asked. "$115 a week to start, and more if you work out . " $115 a week! I had been making more than that on the Texas Observer, and New York was rumored to be the most expensive city...