"It used to be young creative types started magazines that defined the culture. Think Spy in the mid-1980s or even Might in the 1990s. The digital era hasn’t quite had that. One effort underway, naturally in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, wants to change that." —Guess what's going to be Spy for millennials. Just guess! Okay, pencils down. Here's your answer. The sad thing is, given millennials, you can sort of see the point.

If you've been out and about lately, or even if you've stayed in-you really can't hide from this-you've probably noticed a media blitzkrieg for something called Charlie St. Cloud. But before it was a movie, it was a novel. Originally titled The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, any copies you find of it now will likely be of the NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE variety and have Zac Efron dreamboating the hell out of the cover.

That novel's author is Ben Sherwood. He's not an old man-only 46 now-but his fame and controversy extends back rather far, to his days as a Rhodes Scholar.

Kurt Andersen has put up a cover gallery of all the issues of Spy with which he was associated. This will be of particular interest to those of us who are old enough to remember Spy but also old enough that we don't really remember anything these days. If you are too young to know what Spy was, sit back and let me teach you some history.