The Arrival of Joanna

“Oh, you’re Jessica Knoll,” she says to a young woman in a lace top who writes a great deal for the magazine. “Kate told me you’re a rock star,” she says of her predecessor, Kate White. “But Kate’s gone, so it doesn’t matter now.”

Mwa ha ha! For New York magazine (and The Cut), Carl Swanson sits in on Joanna Coles’ first meeting as editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, where a plate of untouched cookies vaguely resembles a bowl of fairy-tale poison apples (from here, at least). But if poison were rousing.