The Cult Of David Remnick

Obama and Remnick in Phoenix in October

The title of a FishbowlNY report from the American Magazine Conference last October:

Local David Remnick Groupies Crash AMC After-Party In Phoenix

Remnick in today’s London Independent:

Q: Do people assume that you’re going to be this very shy, intellectual type because of The New Yorker’s reputation?

A: I don’t know. I think it’s been an awfully long time since the majority of the readership of The New Yorker saw it as something in which there was a cult-like status of the editor.