How to Lead an Accidental Life
Terry McDonell, the legendary editor of Rolling Stone, Esquire and Sports Illustrated, on what his mother taught him.
Terry McDonell — the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame [2012], former editor-in-chief of Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and Outside magazines, among others — has a new, short book out: Irma: The Education of a Mother's Son that I consumed in one sitting. It’s about his mother, Irma, whom he conjures beautifully with spare, quirky, affecting pr…