Editor Adam Moss is so busy reconstructing the very fiber of New York magazine, we can barely catch our breath long enough to utter, "What the fuck?" We hear that New York's articles editor Joanna Coles is leaving the pub for the confines of a top position at More magazine, where she will work on perfecting dowdy middle-aged women the best way she knows how.

Meanwhile, today brings us two spanking-new appointments: Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker is now on board as film critic and Kurt Andersen, former editor of New York, will be writing a bi-weekly column.

What's going on over in Mossy's house? Will things ever be the same? Read on for the salacious memos in which Tucker speaks of the NY "adventure" and Andersen calls Moss New York irresistable.

Ken Tucker Named Film Critic for New York Magazine

NEW YORK New York Magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss announced today that Ken Tucker will be New York Magazine s new film critic. He will begin writing reviews in October.

Tucker has worked at Entertainment Weekly since its launch in 1990; as its Critic At Large, he has won two National Magazine Awards. He began his career as a rock critic for The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and as a rock and television critic at The Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1984, while at the Inquirer, Tucker was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.

Tucker is the weekly pop-music critic for NPR s Fresh Air, carried on 435 stations nationwide, heard by over 4.2 million people each week. He is author of the forthcoming book Kissing Bill O'Reilly, Roasting Miss Piggy: 100 Things To Love And Hate About Television.

I have been a fan of Ken s criticism in many genres for many years, said Moss. He is the perfect kind of critic: an enthusiast, a discerning thinker, and a cultural omnivore. I cant wait to watch him tackle film, and to inaugurate our ambitious, exciting new culture pages.

"I am grateful for my time at Entertainment Weekly, and look forward to being part of the adventure Adam Moss has embarked upon for New York Magazine. Plus, I'm really glad I won't have to review that new Jason Alexander sitcom."

New York Magazine s previous film critic, Peter Rainer, will continue to write for the magazine in other capacities and will remain a contributing editor.

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Kurt Andersen to Write Column for New York Magazine

NEW YORK New York Magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss today announced that Kurt Andersen will write a bi-weekly column for the magazine beginning in January 2005.

Andersen, who was editor-in-chief at New York Magazine from 1994 1996, will write an as-yet-unnamed column about culture, politics, ideas, business, crime and much more. Andersen has previously written regular columns for the New Yorker and Time Magazine, and has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, and Vanity Fair, among many other publications. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, bestselling novel Turn of the Century, and Random House will publish his second novel next year.

He also hosts the award-winning arts-and-culture show Studio 360 that is heard on 150 public radio stations nationwide. Andersen was co-founder and editor-in-chief of Spy Magazine, co-founder of Inside.com, and since 2003 has been editorial director of Colors Magazine.

Andersen s byline (on a story about Martha Stewart) appeared in the first issue of New York that Moss edited, in March. I wanted to signal immediately that this magazine was going to be about original thinking and great writing. The best way to do that was to publish Kurt as fast as I could, said Moss. Nobody has a sharper eye for this city.

I have been lucky to be on the receiving end of Kurt s wisdom, experience and insight throughout my magazine career, and especially since joining New York Magazine, said Moss. That our readers will now know have the privilege of seeing the world and New York through Kurt s lens, is a great treat for all of us.

I ve never had a happier, more productive working relationship with an editor than I ve had with Adam over the years, Andersen said. So the prospect of writing for him regularly at New York was irresistible.