David Remnick
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September 2006
The quiet American
It's a magazine that runs 10,000-word articles on African states and the pension system, has almost no pictures and is published in black and white. So how does the New Yorker sell more than a million copies a week? Gaby Wood meets David Remnick, its big-brained editor, and talks speed writing, 30-hour days and meeting Little Ant and Little Dec.
May 2005
Guide to age
Alexander ChancellorAlexander Chancellor: Covering the British election campaign for the New Yorker, its distinguished editor, David Remnick, had the discomforting experience of witnessing an interview with the prime minister by Little Ant and Little Dec for ITV1's Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.
July 2001
What's selling in sport
At least gloomy Arsenal fans have something to celebrate in über -fan Nick Hornby's continuing domination of sport-lit. This week saw them outnumbered at a rowdy public meeting to debate the wisdom of allowing the construction of a new stadium at Highbury. Inexplicably, residents are less impressed by the prospect of a swanky 60,000 capacity ground than they are unnerved by plans for a council dump to be relocated to within a few feet of houses and schools, and even an eloquent speech from sports journalist Amy Lawrence failed to pacify them. Perhaps Hornby should consider a postscript in future editions of the book. Elsewhere, seasonal adjustments account for the density of cricketing titles. But Muhammad Ali, subject of David Remnick's King of the World, is perennially fascinating - even for the editor of the New Yorker, a magazine not hitherto readily associated with pugilism.
March 2001
February 2000
October 1999
Ali - the gloves come off
After defeating Sonny Liston for the heavyweight title, Clay arrived for his morning press conference, on 26 February, 1964, at the Veterans Room of Convention Hall in Miami. He answered all the traditional questions about how he felt, about which fighter he might take on next, about whether Liston was tougher than expected, less tough than expected or precisely as tough as expected. Finally, a reporter interrupted with a barbed question: wasn't it true that Clay was a 'card-carrying member of the Black Muslims'?