David Remnick ‘81 to publish “pimped out” biography of Barack Obama

Source: magazine.org

Source: magazine.org

David Remnick ‘81, editor-in-chief of The New Yorker (and former Press Clubber aw yeah!), has a biography of Barack Obama in the works. The Alfred A. Knopf imprint of Random House said it plans to publish the bio on April 6.

Remnick’s written about Obama in the past, and he promises the book would not simply be a “pimped out” version of this New Yorker article published in November 2008.

Confession: Remnick didn’t say “pimped out,” but rather “pumped up,” but the New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog had reported he had. Which is hilarious, because, does anyone at The New Yorker use “pimp” as a verb not ironically?

(hat tip to Daily Intel for catching the switch)

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By Will Saborio on February 22nd 2010, 5:45pm
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3 Comments

  1. thúy-lan
    Posted February 22, 2010 at 5:48 pm | Permalink

    …and co-founder of the Nass!

  2. Will Saborio
    Posted February 22, 2010 at 6:20 pm | Permalink

    He likes us more. I just asked him, we text.

  3. Matt
    Posted February 22, 2010 at 9:41 pm | Permalink

    Why does the headline say, “David Remnick to publish ‘pimped out’ biography,” while the article says that he promises it won’t be a “pimped out” biography?

    Which is it going to be??

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