The Brisket Sessions with Jake Silverstein, Editor in Chief of The New York Times Magazine

Jake Silverstein is the editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine. He was the editor of Texas Monthly from 2008 to 2014, during which time the magazine was nominated for 13 National Magazine Awards and won four. A former contributing editor to Harper's Magazine, he is the author of Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction, which was published in 2010 by W.W. Norton. He attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut; received graduate degrees from Hollins University, in Roanoke, Virginia, and the Michener Center for Writers, at the University of Texas at Austin; and was a was a Fulbright scholar in Mexico in 2002. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and two sons.