He’s been the boy wonder of the New York publishing world, a protege of Tina Brown, and the editor of a magazine backed by Jeffrey Epstein. Now, MaerRoshan is creating buzz (a word he hates) at LAmag.
An early summer lunch with Maer Roshan, the recently appointed and ninth editor in chief of Los Angeles magazine, began routinely enough. What could be more normal than a couple of Angelenos sitting down to compare notes on the previous night’s earthquake? “I was having dinner with a friend at the Century City mall,” Roshan said in his gritty, Marlboro Light-cured voice. “Suddenly the lights began swinging and it’s like, ‘Well, it’s happening again.’ But no one screamed or anything.
Since moving to L.A., Maer Roshan has lived in Venice, Brentwood and Hollywood. Then, after deciding he wanted to be in a more pedestrian-friendly neighborhood, he leased an apartment on the eastern fringe of Silver Lake. Maer Roshan, at a recent story meeting with his staff:"The magazine shied away from political content before,” he says."But we should be covering institutions and people that matter in this city.”
, including the magazine’s then-editor, Mary Melton. In terms of its heft, Los Angeles today more closely resembles an alumni quarterly than a phone book.The first thing you notice about the magazine’s headquarters, in a sleek skyscraper designed by William L. "Maer is truly one of the most talented editors I know,"says Tina Brown."Even when he was at Radar, plagued by aAs a monthly, Los Angeles depends on its website for the currency Roshan covets. He has doubled the daily content of the site, expanding its pool of contributors and ramping up video coverage to “drive the conversation,” whether it be politics or entertainment or fashion. According to Josef Vann, the publisher of Los Angeles, web traffic is up 60% over last year.
As a boy, Roshan spent his summers with his paternal grandparents, who moved to Los Angeles in 1982. His favorite activity was walking from their place on Beverly Glen to Rodeo Drive, not to shop — although he remembers buying a tie from Bijan once, for his father — but to people-watch. His mother and two brothers have lived in L.A. for years. Roshan himself moved here in 2014 — making it official last year the way ex-New Yorkers do, by belatedly selling his apartment in the city.
His 1950s-era triplex is camouflaged by noirish vegetation — giant birds of paradise, fan palms, topiary bushes chain-sawed into vaguely menacing amoebic forms. Aretha Franklin’s lush rendition of “ Higher and Higher” wafted from inside, and guests balancing drinks and plates of sushi spilled out onto the small front porch. The guest list comprised a mixed bag — filmmakers, friends from AA, at least one ex-boyfriend. One-half of the Maerettes was there .
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