Hugo Lindgren is an American magazine and newspaper editor. He was the editor of ''

The New York Times Magazine ''The New York Times Magazine'' is an American Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times''. It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors. ...

'' from 2010 to 2013 and the acting editor of ''

The Hollywood Reporter ''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly large ...

''.Hugo Lindgren to Join The Hollywood Reporter as Acting Editor
/ref> He runs the production company Page 1 Productions with the filmmaker Mark Boal. In 2009 he coined the

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pessimism porn Pessimism porn is a neologism coined in 2009 during the 2007–2012 global financial crisis to describe the alleged eschatological and survivalist thrill some people derive from predicting, reading and fantasizing about the collapse of civil soci ...

" to describe the alleged

eschatological Eschatology (; ) concerns expectations of the end of the present age, human history, or of the world itself. The end of the world or end times is predicted by several world religions (both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic), which teach that nega ...

and survivalist thrill some people derive from reading about and preparing for the collapse of civil society from a global economic crisis.Pessimism Porn? Economic Forecasts Get Lurid
Dan Harris, ABC News, April 9, 2009; accessed July 8, 2012''Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End'', Mary Manjikian, Lexington Books, March 15, 2012, Pessimism Porn: Titillatingly bleak media reports
Ben Schott, ''New York Times'', February 23, 2009; accessed July 8, 2012

Personal life

Lindgren lives in New York City with his wife, writer

Sarah Bernard Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pio ...

, and his twin daughters. Lindgren attended

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist Jam ...

References

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