5/15/2023 0 Comments Nytimes modern love![]() “The real genesis,” Jones said, “was us moving to Northampton thinking we’d have this, like, dream life working in this Victorian house together as writers and editors, and pretty soon we were like, ‘This is not an ideal arrangement.’” In the late 1990s, the couple had been looking to leave their small apartment in New York City for someplace cheaper to live with their two children, Phoebe and Nathaniel, then 4 and 15 months old and now 24 and 21 years old. The story of how “Modern Love” came to be is a good, rich tale itself. “We have love from old age, we have platonic love, we have family love and strife and divorce and that sort of thing.” The advice show creators gave him: “Just send us good, rich essays - don’t try to be a TV director.”Įasier said than done, considering the column’s long history. Each of the eight episodes in the first season brings to life one “Modern Love” essay, and already the show has announced it will be renewed for a second season.Īs a consulting producer on the show, Jones helped decide what essays to bring to the screen, he said on a recent afternoon, sitting at the kitchen table in the Victorian house he shares with his wife, the writer Cathi Hanauer, and their dog, Rico. The immensely popular column has inspired books, a podcast and, in mid-October, a TV show on Amazon Prime Video with a star-studded cast that includes Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey and Dev Patel. ![]() The part-time Northampton resident and full-time editor of the New York Times “Modern Love” column, now in its 15th year, has received roughly 120,000 submissions and edited some 750 essays about relationships. NORTHAMPTON - Daniel Jones has read a lot of love stories. Tina Fey and John Slattery in “Modern Love.” COURTESY AMAZON STUDIOSĭev Patel and Catherine Keener in “Modern Love.” COURTESY AMAZON STUDIOS Below left, Dev Patel and Catherine Keener in “Modern Love.” Below right, Daniel Jones, editor of the New York Times column “Modern Love,” and his wife, author Cathi Hanauer, in Northampton. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTINGĪbove, Anne Hathaway in “Modern Love,” a television show inspired by the newspaper column of the same name that began airing on Amazon Prime in October. ![]() STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTINGĭaniel Jones, editor of the New York Times column “Modern Love,” and his wife, author Cathi Hanauer, in Northampton. Daniel Jones of Northampton edits the New York Times column “Modern Love.” Photographed on Friday, Nov.
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