Myron Kolatch

Myron Kolatch (born September 26, 1929) is an American magazine editor, who was managing editor and then executive editor of The New Leader from 1960 to its closure in 2006.

Background

Kolatch was born on September 26, 1929, in the United States; his parents were also born in the US. In 1960, he became managing editor; in 1961, he became executive editor.

Kolatch hired Diane Ravitch as a writer; other writers included Daniel Bell and Nathan Glazer. He also hired Stanley Edgar Hyman as book reviewer with a regular column called "Writers and Writing."

In 1963, TIME magazine describe the magazine as "a Manhattan-based biweekly with a circulation of only 28,500, wields influence out of all proportion to its size."

In 1965, the magazine received some funding from the Tamiment Library after the sale of its Tamiment camp.

Kolatch remained executive editor until the magazine's closure in 2006.

Personal life

On politics, during a 2007 interview, Koltach said, "I have an uneasy feeling that Putin may be a twenty-first century variety of Stalin."

On publishing, during the same interview, Kolatch said: Yes, there is and that is one of the reasons we did it as a PDF [on The New Leader website], so that you could print it and have it in your hand. Since I was a kid I was very interested in the whole growth and development of typography and moveable type, and I was in print shops, so I care a lot about graphic design. I care about the appearance of the magazine, and I don't want anybody messing with it.

Works

After The New Leader'''s reportage on Yugoslavian writer Mihajlo Mihajlov landed him in 1964, Kolatch wrote a foreword to his book, published in 1966.

Moscow Summer by Mihajlo Mihajlov with foreword by Myron Kolatch (1966)