David Remnick
David Remnick
David Remnickis an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998. He was named Editor of the Year by Advertising Age in 2000. Before joining The New Yorker, Remnick was a reporter and the Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post. He has also served on the New York Public Library's board of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth29 October 1958
CountryUnited States of America
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.
To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.
Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence.
If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.
The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.
I've grown up on Woody's movies and his prose,
What stores are around, what stores aren't around, what advertisers want to present as an ideal woman or man, passing prejudices, things that you would never say now that you could say then.
Bill Buford has been one of the great fiction editors in the history of the magazine, bringing into our pages countless new voices, ... He has an intelligence and an imagination that has made itself known in the magazine all the time, and I know he will do that, too, as a writer.
Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.
There's no doubt that Ali wrote a great deal of what he recited.
Ads are ads, and I have no problem at all with Target's advertising a lot, all at once, or a page at a time.
The sense of urgency, the sense of moment, has arrived.
She shaped American film criticism for generations to come and, more important, the national understanding of the movies,