From The Guardian, this interesting interview with The New Yorker‘s current editor, David Remnick. A former New Yorker editor, Tina Brown, chimes in as well. [photo: Laura Barisonzi]
note: in the paragraph excerpted below you’ll notice the mention of “Gadd” cartoons. The word should be “gag”
It would be wrong to see the circulation success as the triumph of seriousness. “The formula of the New Yorker is too complicated to just be called serious … you’re reading a 10,000-word piece on the war in Sudan and speckled within it are Gadd cartoons about talking dogs and desert islands,” he says. “It’s a magical formula.”
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An exhibition of Bill Woodman’s Cartoons and Paintings in Portland, Maine…