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Remnick ’81 writes “another f***ing Obama book,” media elite fawn over him
Tuesday, 06 April 2010
by Will Saborio
We told you a few weeks ago how David Remnick ’81 (a Press Club alum who has hit the proverbial “big time” as editor-in-chief of the New Yorker) was writing a “pimped out” new biography about President Obama. It hit bookshelves today, and critics are absolutely raving about it. And about Remnick! Yesterday the Times
- Published in Alumni, Princeton in the News
How P-Krug Gets His Groove Back
Monday, 22 February 2010
by David Walter
From a profile of Economics Professor Paul (“Nobel Laureate”) Krugman in this week’s New Yorker: When it is cold at home, or he has a couple of weeks with nothing to do but write his Times column [but what about WWS 543?], or when something unexpectedly stressful happens, like winning the Nobel Prize, the Princeton economist
- Published in Princeton in the News
David Remnick ’81 to publish “pimped out” biography of Barack Obama
Monday, 22 February 2010
by Will Saborio
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
- Published in Alumni, Princeton in the News
This week in “Princeton in the New Yorker”: Tiger Hockey and… Baby Seals?
Monday, 08 February 2010
by David Walter
You’d think the New Yorker would be solidly in the tank for the ol’ Orange and Black. Editor-in-Chief David Remnick ’81 didn’t teach himself, after all. In recent years, however, Yale has been getting most of the love from this classiest of rags (see here and here and here). But as long as the stories
- Published in Princeton in the News
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Week in Review: July 27 – August 2 (Law and Order Edition)
Sunday, 02 August 2009
by Will Saborio
During summer, when there are no parties to break, or drunk students to catch urinating, what exactly does PSafe do? Catch criminals, that’s what. In this week’s edition: Water guns? Public lewdness? Princeton quickly becomes the next possible locale of a CSI spin-off. Meanwhile, The New Yorker is all like, “You guys were so right
- Published in Princeton in the News, Week in Review