Farmers’ market #fruit #vegetables #summer #yummy http://instagr.am/p/OPiiLLS25B/
"Düsseldorf is the Jacksonville of Germany."
— Guy further down the bar. (I have no idea what that means, but having spent time in both cities, I thought the sentiment was worth preserving.)
"I love Frank Sinatra. I’ve got two of his records and all his CDs."
— Guy down the bar
The Art of the Profile with David Remnick of ‘The New Yorker’
David Remnick writes for fun. That might seem an odd sentiment coming from the editor in chief of The New Yorker, a magazine known for an eminent tradition of literary and journalistic gravitas. But his kind of “fun” shouldn’t be misread as trivial. What Remnick considers fun to write are the signature New Yorker profile pieces, which involve weeks or months of rigorous research and legwork for the writer (running to many thousands of published words). On the occasion of Remnick’s comprehensive profile of Bruce Springtseen in the new issue, we picked his brain about the art of the modern profile and how the form originated and evolved at The New Yorker.
Here is a sad reflection for the ordinary reader, faced as he is with lifetimes upon lifetimes worth of books on entering even a small public library or a reasonably well-stocked bookshop. Since we can’t have very many, we must husband our time and attention carefully. But how to choose? The melancholy may lift a little when we realize that so many wise souls who have come before have been willing to serve as guides.
Maria Bustillos on what to read next: http://nyr.kr/Q4vqDf
