David Remnick: King of the World
Bookworm
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4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 1999
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The new editor of the New Yorker on the techniques of the profile. How does one journalist master sports writing for his book on Ali, having won a Pulitzer for his anatomy of the new Russia?
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:03.5 | Fettlm busting out here. I don't have a mark on my face and I'm upset sign enlistment and I just turned 22 years old. I must be the greatest. I told the world I talk to God every day. If God's Whitney came over it, I'm against Miss Sunny. I shook up the world. I know the real God. Oh, gosh, wait a minute, wait a minute, let me ask you this now. |
| 0:03.2 | You told me when you visited in Los Angeles. I took up the world. I know the real God. I know the real God. Wait a minute. |
| 0:21.6 | Wait a minute, Cassius. |
| 0:22.6 | Let me ask you this now. |
| 0:23.6 | You told me when you visited in Los Angeles, you could do it in eight. Well, you thought Sonny and figured Sonny was great. How come you did it in six? There's seven. You did it in seven. I had him going in eight. I was getting ready to take him in the eighth, as you could see. |
| 0:19.6 | But the man stopped it just to keep from making me look so great. |
| 0:22.6 | I see now, give us that poetry on number seven. I was getting ready to take him in the eighth, as you could see. But the man stopped it just to keep from making me look so great. |
| 0:38.3 | I see, now give us that poetry on number seven. He wanted to go to heaven, so I took him in seven. You took him in seven. I am the king of the world. Hold it, hold it, hold it. I'm pretty. Hold it. I'm a man, man. I took up the wall. I took up the wall! |
| 0:35.3 | I took up the wall! |
| 0:37.3 | I took up the wall! I took up the wall! I took up the wall! |
| 0:56.0 | You are a human animal. |
| 1:00.0 | You are a very special breed. |
| 1:04.0 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 1:07.0 | Or you are the only animal? Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 1:15.2 | Hello and welcome to Bookworm. I'm Michael Silverblatt, and today my guest is David Remnick, |
| 1:20.7 | the author most recently of King of the World. He is the author as well of the Pulitzer Prize winning Lenin's Tomb. |
| 1:30.3 | There is a magnificent collection of profiles called The Devil Problem that one can find |
| 1:35.8 | from vintage along with his other book, Resurrection. He started as a sports writer at the |
| 1:42.4 | Washington Post, so it is interesting to see him return to the subject. |
| 1:47.9 | And I want to begin by saying that, as you know, if you listen, |
| 1:54.1 | the subject of bookworm is writing. |
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