How to edit The New York, and also write for it
I've just read David Remnick's review-essay of some Middle East books in the latest issue of The New Yorker in an airplane bound for the Middle East East. I have often asked this question, but it bears repetition: How does David edit a fabulous magazine every week, and yet manage to often write wonderfully lucid, richly details articles, reviews, and essays? As a fellow practitioner of journalism, I can only shake my head in sheer amazement.