“Inevitably most of us want to be liked, want to make an impression, and we fill in empty space…”
- David Remnick on the Art of the Profile (guess what, it’s hard to write a good one!)
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Eight Things I Learned From Reading Every Last Word of The Economist
Posting this because I, too, believe that “to subscribe to The New Yorker is to accept the feeling of inadequacy that comes with [doing just about anything] rather than attacking the unread pile of them on your bedside table.” (And The Economist is a close second; these days, I reserve it for airplanes.)
So, I’m eager to follow the travails of NYTMag editors as one of them reads an entire issue of another magazine every day for the next two weeks, and reports back on what they learned. Bated breath.
What a fantastic privilege to be invited in to the bizarre and delicious world of Flynn, the culinary wunderkind - on what turned out to be the last night of his “pre-pube pop-up,” and the eve of my friend Chris’ New Yorker piece that provides a tantalizing glimpse behind the bedroom door.
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