I'm a magazine fan, to excess. I'll pick up just about anything with a glossy cover and flip through it, rifle through old magazines for articles I may have "missed", and generally stack them anywhere there's an available square inch. So when it came time to write about this week's book it occurred to me that I was currently reading more mags than books. So today's post is about what I'm reading right now, three mags, two January issues and one from December.

Every January I look out for The SAVEUR 100 (I'm also a list fan and a foodie), it's the issue that lists the food mags' 100 "favorite foods, restaurants, drinks, people, places and things". This issue is the 10th annual, so it must be working for them, it does for me. I've earmarked NYC's RUB barbecue, Devries real chocolate, and Le Petit Beurre cookie. The other 97 are pretty good too.

The January issue of Portfolio, Conde Nast's Monocle-beater. I read both and I'm struck at the difference, one's a magazine, the other is a book. I'll sip through Portfolio and I'll drink in Monocle. This month's Portfolio was bought solely for "OIL SHOCK, why prices will plunge". That and maybe "WALL STREET'S NEXT CRASH", it's about commercial real estate bottoming out. Note to cover designers everywhere, put page numbers on the cover, it works.

And from December, the Esquire Genius Issue. The "36 radicals and rebels who are creating the new world". My guilt ridden read, right beside the scientist that uses math to change medicine, the story of Ben Silverman, the "hard-partying new head of NBC Entertainment". My advice for Ben, make Tina Fey happy, 30 Rock is the best show since Seinfeld (heresy; it's better!).

Also you can now get your fix online at The Magazineer, a new blog by that JPG guy.