The magazine employed writers such as Alfred Bester, Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Lawrence Durell, James Michener, and E. B.

[3] The magazine was known as a cosmopolitan travel wishbook with photo essays in full-color oversize 11 X 13.5 package along with articles by famous authors.

The English fiction writers, V. S. Pritchett and Lawrence Durrell also traveled for this magazine, so did John Steinbeck after he won his Nobel Prize for literature, when he crisscrossed the United States with his dog....Bowles wrote a piece for Holiday about hashish, another of his enthusiasms, since he was a life-long stoner.

White's stepson, Roger Angell, worked at the magazine in 1948.The essay was published as a gift book by Harper and it was also released as a Book-of-the-Month Club edition.

[3] After Ted Patrick's sudden death in 1964[5] there were internal issues between the current staff and Curtis Publishing Company over the direction of the magazine.

[7] Several of the magazine's writers, artists and photographers put out a large ad in the New York Times to "salute" the four as "good editors.

[13] The issue n°373 includes contributions from photographers Josh Olins,[14] Karim Sadli and Mark Peckmezian, a short novel about Ibiza by novelist Arthur Dreyfus, a story on Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin's New York loft, and the cover features a chosen fragment of Remed's painting "Leonogone".