Word: authorly
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick, whom Tina Brown personally recruited to The New Yorker as a staff writer, was named on Monday to succeed her as editor of the venerable magazine. Remnick, 39, who has written more than 100 articles for the magazine, will take over when Brown leaves Aug. 1 (to start a new multimedia venture with Miramax). Remnick said his top priority will be "to edit a magazine of hilarity, deep reporting, literary quality and moral seriousness." He wouldn't discuss any specific changes he may have in mind for the magazine, or his contract...
...raffish charisma) has everything, and too much of it. He swaggers, smokes, guzzles beer, grabs life by the butt and gives it a fat smack. He makes abrupt love to Simon's morbid mother (Maria Porter) and bored sister (Parker Posey). He is, he tells Simon, an artist, the author of a huge, unpublished tome called My Confession; and he encourages Simon to lift himself from lethargy and create his own masterpiece...
THOSE #&%* EDITORS! They made 86 cuts and changes ("mutilations," said the author), but the work still became an American best seller. Last week Thomas Jefferson got to say the last word, every single one, when the full draft of his Declaration of Independence went on display at the Newseum in Arlington, Va., on loan from the New York Public Library. An angry Jefferson underlined Congress's changes. One of its telling deletions: a denunciation of King George for maintaining slavery...
LIFE STORY We decided to turn the tables on three biographers and find out whether they would like to be the subject of a biography by another author. Their answers...
...Scott Berg, author of an upcoming biography of Charles Lindbergh: "[The index of a good biography] provides a glimpse of the surrounding characters you will meet. Because I've been fortunate enough to befriend some fascinating people, I'd be happy to be a biographee--but not while my index is still growing...