New Yorker: Outloud
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Nick Paumgarten and Deborah Treisman on James Salter.
This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten Profiles the novelist ...
This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten Profiles the novelist James Salter, whose first novel in thirty years, "All That Is," was published this month. Here, Nick Paumgarten and the fiction editor Deborah Treisman talk with Michael Agger about why Salter isn't better known, his recurring themes (including sex, marriage, and the heroic code of military men), and his unique prose style, which combines, as Treisman puts it, "ornateness and bluntness." Also, the night-thoughts of Lucie Brock-Broido.
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Hisham Matar and David Remnick on returning to Libya.
This week in the magazine, novelist Hisham Matar writes about ...
This week in the magazine, novelist Hisham Matar writes about his return to Libya after decades of exile. Here, David Remnick talks with Matar about leaving Libya as a boy, his fathers imprisonment and disappearance, and returning to Libya in the wake of the Libyan revolution. Also, why more people are buying bitcoins.
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Michael Schulman on Tim Minchin.
In the magazine this week, Michael Schulman writes about Tim ...
In the magazine this week, Michael Schulman writes about Tim Minchin, the singer-songwriter-comedian who composed the music and lyrics for the musical "Matilda" (an adaptation of the Roald Dahl book), which just opened on Broadway after a celebrated run in London. Here, Schulman listens to and explains a few of the songs that made Minchin famous in his native Australia and in the U.K. Also, a phone call with Minchin himself.
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Kelefa Sanneh and Leo Carey on Dapper Dan.
This week in the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Dapper ...
This week in the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Dapper Dan, the Harlem designer whose flashy fur-lined leather coats helped shape hip-hop style. Here, Sanneh and Leo Carey talk with Sasha Weiss about status and influence in men's fashion, as well as The New Yorker style when it comes to writing about clothes. Also, some Fung Wah blues.
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Jane Kramer on cooking and writing
This week in the magazine, Jane Kramer reviews "Consider the ...
This week in the magazine, Jane Kramer reviews "Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat," by the British food writer and historian Bee Wilson. It's more than a book review, though: The New Yorker's European correspondent brings into it her own passion for cooking and her years of writing about food. In this week's New Yorker Out Loud, Sasha Weiss visits Kramer in her New York apartment to talk about cooking, kitchens, and why food is so central to her life. Also, James Surowiecki weighs in on Yahoo's decision to ban telecommuting.
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Jeffrey Toobin and Margaret Talbot on Ruth Bader Ginsberg
This week in the magazine, Jeffrey Toobin writes a Profile ...
This week in the magazine, Jeffrey Toobin writes a Profile of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who even before her time on the Supreme Court played an important role in shaping the legal framework for womens rights and gender discrimination. Here Toobin and Margaret Talbot talk with Amy Davidson about Ginsburgs legacy and some of the current issues the Court is addressing. Also, fiction from a veteran of the war in Afghanistan.
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John Colapinto on vocal-cord injuries
This week in the magazine, John Colapinto writes about Dr. ...
This week in the magazine, John Colapinto writes about Dr. Steven Zeitels, who has treated the vocal cords of many famous singers, including Adele, James Taylor, Cher, and Roger Daltrey. Here, Colapinto talks with Sasha Weiss about his own damaged vocal cords and the mysterious powers of the human voice. Also, David Owen on his Purell conversion.
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Alexander Stille and John Cassidy on Pope Benedict XVI
Last week, Pope Benedict XVI surprised the world by announcing ...
Last week, Pope Benedict XVI surprised the world by announcing his retirement, saying that he no longer had the strength for the job. Will his break with a centuries-old tradition of dying in office transform the papacyand the Church? And how about his successor? Benedict's contentious legacy is the subject of this week's New Yorker Out Loud with Alexander Stille and John Cassidy speaking with Amy Davidson. Also, a very short, romantically blighted poem.
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David Remnick and Ian Frazier on Joseph Mitchell
Joseph Mitchell started at The New Yorker in 1938, and ...
Joseph Mitchell started at The New Yorker in 1938, and was a staff writer for fifty-eight years, until his death in 1996. His journalism chronicled everyday life in New York Cityhe wrote about Mohawk steelworkers, fishermen, street-preachers, bartenders, ticket-takers, and bearded ladies. In the mid nineteen-sixties, he stopped publishing any work in the magazine. But apparently he never stopped writing. In this week's issue, there's a previously unpublished chapter from an unfinished memoir that he started in the late nineteen-sixties and early nineteen-seventies. Here, The New Yorker's editor David Remnick and staff writer Ian Frazier talk with Sasha Weiss about their memories of Mitchell, why he didn't publish for so many decades, and the influence his writing has had on them and on the magazine.
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Patrick Radden Keefe and David Grann on crime reporting.
This week in the magazine, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the ...
This week in the magazine, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the Amy Bishop case. In 2010 Bishop shot and killed several colleagues at the University of Alabama. In the aftermath of that crime, it was revealed that Bishop had shot and killed her brother in 1986, which Bishop and her parents have always claimed was an accident. Here Keefe and New Yorker staff writer David Grann talk with their editor Daniel Zalewski about the Amy Bishop story, non-fiction crime writing more generally, and how to approach the truth when certainty is impossible. Also, Kelefa Sanneh on drinking Scotch.
