While much of the magazine-publishing business has been hit hard by the recession, one new publication is off to a smashing start. The Quayle Quarterly has watched its circulation leap eightfold in just a year. The Connecticut-based newsletter, dedicated to keeping "a watchful eye on the vice presidency," has become required reading for 16,000 political junkies. Co-founder Deborah Werksman insists that her magazine treats its subject fairly, and attributes its success to the "high level of civic anxiety" + about the man who could be President.
Quayle's handlers apparently take the journal seriously as well. When Werksman appeared on the Phil...