Word: remnick
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...doing this. My father, for most of his working life, was a grocer in Kansas City. Why would anybody be interested in a Kansas City grocer to whom nothing really dramatic happened? Why would anybody want to read it? I only wrote the book about my wife after David Remnick, the [current] editor of the New Yorker, asked if I had ever thought about doing one. You're never quite sure what readers are going to take away from what you write. The book about my wife, to some people, was a book about love and marriage. I just wanted...
...David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, likening the cover to comedian Stephen Colbert's mocking portrayal of a right-wing newscaster...
...think the cartoons used to be a little bit more insular. But they’re pretty accessible now…We don’t do a demographic on it to find out if everybody gets it. We just, you know, if we like it, I like it, Remnick likes it, we publish it. Any cartoon your mom doesn’t get, please have her give me a call. It’s a service. 1-800-GET JOKES. FM: What do you think about the Summers resignation? MANKOFF: Yeah. Well, I mean, I just think he shouldn?...
...Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick. What do good journalists do when they find themselves in the middle of the story of a lifetime? Dig till they drop and type like hell. Remnick covered thousands of miles for hundreds of interviews to explain who did what to whom when the Kremlin came tumbling down. The result is history still hot from the crucible...