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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...
...David Remnick, a New Yorker staff writer, is the author of Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, which won the Pulitzer Prize...
When the last chief of the Soviet Union's KGB published his memoirs last year, David Remnick went to see him in Moscow. He found that while Vladimir Kryuchkov had turned pallid and squinty, he was still a man with ambitions. "I think I have real potential," the spymaster said, urging Remnick to give his book a plug in print. Now there's a tidy tombstone for the cold war: the former jailer of the old "evil empire" scrounging for free publicity in the West...
These two distinguished journalists, former colleagues and Moscow hands at the Washington Post (Remnick is now at the New Yorker), have taken dozens of such scenes from their notebooks to produce two very different but complementary books. They depict Russia's course as it stumbled and slid from a moribund Brezhnev to a self-promoting Kryuchkov--and possibly a moribund Boris Yeltsin. Dobbs' report, Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (Knopf; 502 pages; $30), carries the still astonishing story of the fall of communism, from the rise of Solidarity in Poland in 1980 to the collapse...
While Dobbs tells you where he has been, Remnick takes you with him. He asks, What is going on over there? And then he answers in a series of brilliantly etched close-ups that when read together have a cumulative, pointillist impact. Remnick shows readers Yeltsin's civil war with the Russian parliament, the populated rubble of Chechnya, the return of the unhonored prophet Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the offices of the new business czars, and the salons of Moscow's intelligentsia. He likes to put you in a room where important people carry on thought-provoking discussions. In one intense conversation...