Publisher of The Toast Nick Pavich Is Out for Murky Reasons
LatestJezebel has learned that Nicholas Pavich has left The Toast, a popular lady site frequented by post-structuralist art history fans, where he served as publisher since January 2013. Pavich’s tenure at the blog apparently ended over some vague but certainly bad blood between him and its co-founders, Mallory Ortberg and Nicole Cliffe.
After hearing murmurs Pavich had left after he’d misbehaved in some way, we reached out to Ortberg, who responded, “I can confirm that Nick Pavich is no longer with the Toast. We’re working with a third-party publishing company (Hashtag Labs) while we look for another full-time publisher. Not much has or will change for our readers, except for that Nicole Callahan is now handling payments, which Nick used to do.”
When we asked if Pavich was out due to bad behavior, Ortberg responded, “I think that is all that I can say for now, so I will leave it at that!”*
Pavich has not acknowledged our attempts to contact him.