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Emily Gordon is the managing editor of Print magazine in NYC. But in her off-hours, she's at the helm of Emdashes, a fascinating site devoted to The New Yorker.

We sang the praises of Emily's blog only a week ago, and in writing and researching the site, we knew we had to chat with the amazing woman behind it.

We talked at length with the eloquent editor about her blog, the Web, and the magazine she loves so dearly. Here's what she had to say...

Hey Emily, when did you start Emdashes and why?

I started Emdashes in December 2004, while working at a truly terrible magazine job, where all the people there were saints—writing about health care and science for a boss who knew nothing about either science or journalism.

I'd just been to grad school for three years and after spending all my college years and then all the years subsequently as a journalist and book critic, suddenly I had fallen somewhat off the map.

So I was reading about magazine publishing online all day, but feeling increasingly apart from it, and meanwhile still writing book reviews and other freelance pieces.

My colleague had a blog, though, for illustration and general thoughts, and I asked her how to start one—I picked emdashes as a name because of the pun, of course, but also because originally it was going to be about punctuation. Read the full profile...

Shortly after Gawker Media—the rudest kids on the blogging block—launched a web site focused on women's media, we knew there was going to be some mudpack-slinging ahead in the world of women's magazines. And it wasn't long before Jezebel's editors announced they would pay handsomely for real evidence of the airbrushing chicanery that goes into the covers of magazines like Vogue, Elle, Glamour, and Redbook. That day has arrived, and one sneaky Jezebel reader grew $10,000 richer while the rest of us grew a bit wiser about Photoshop foolery in the media. Compare the original Redbook cover photo to its digitally-enhanced alter ego. Did beautiful, 39-year-old country singer Faith Hill really need to have a few lines erased, a hand transformed into an arm, another appendage digitally liposuctioned, and a myriad other mutations? The outcry about this muckraking has been loud, if not entirely clear. Could this be the end of the airbrush apparent? If Jezebel keeps it up, maybe someday you can start really judging a Redbook by its cover.