Two years ago I was asked to write an autobiographical essay for a screenwriting magazine, and midway through I realized I had led an intensely dull life.

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In January Jellinek hired former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan to write a financial column for both Playboy magazine and its Web site.

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Did you hear the news that Karl Lagerfeld is going to write a column for The Wall Street Journal magazine?

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Reason, a libertarian magazine, hired us for a summer internship and asked us to write a short piece about the controversy, which was published late in the spring.

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