New Yorker editor David Remnick‘s biography of President Obama will be released April 6, with a first printing of 200,000. Details at PW.
Remnick on Obama: The Bridge
Everyone Has a Book in Their Stomach
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“Best” and “Worst” Are Prominent
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Our Lucrative Profession
The folks at Harper’s Bazaar (not Harper’s Magazine) are launching a new short story competition, and the grand prize is wild: an all-expenses-paid weeklong stay on a private Scottish island, publication in the May 2014 issue of the magazine and a first-edition book from the Asprey’s Fine and Rare Books Department, worth up to £3,000. (And yes, that’s pounds, not dollars.)
Hmmm, how do you write a biography of Obama AND edit The New Yorker at the same time? Can you be much more than a figurehead as editor under such circumstances?