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
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.
The sense of urgency, the sense of moment, has arrived.
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.
She shaped American film criticism for generations to come and, more important, the national understanding of the movies,
We don't assign stories based on gender, but now that Ruth Davis Konigsberg has helpfully shown us the error of our ways, henceforth all assignments will be equally balanced between the sexes.
I've grown up on Woody's movies and his prose,
If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.
I actually have great hopes for the future.
Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,
Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.