David Remnick

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Since 1998, David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker and has written hundreds of pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Bruce Springsteen and more. He also hosts the magazine’s national radio program and podcast, “The New Yorker Radio Hour.” He joins live at the On Air Fest to talk about his legendary life and career.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective. reporter, the world was a very promising, it was always filled with misery.
0:15.0	We are half conscious, crazy people doing the best we can and the worst we can all the time,
0:22.0	but there was this moment of
0:23.7	promise in the Middle East in Eastern Europe, in Central Europe, in South America,
0:30.6	Democratic promise. I'm not saying heaven on earth, but Promise.
0:37.0	From the Tad Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman. For 19 years
0:47.0	Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about
0:50.2	what they do, how they got to be who they, and what they're thinking about and working on.
0:55.0	On this episode, David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker magazine, talks about his life and career and tests the limits of his memory.
1:03.2	Look, the story I'm going to tell you may be completely false. Debbie's interview with David Rameh took place in front of a live audience at the
1:19.5	Onairfest on March 1st, 2024 in Brooklyn.
1:25.0	David, I understand that you are planning to title the last book you ever write,
1:30.0	basically find. title the last book you ever write,
1:33.2	basically fine.
1:35.2	No, I think I'm going to title it Home by 10.
1:38.8	Well, tell us the story of basically fine.
1:42.1	I have no idea what basically fine.
1:44.1	Oh, it was when you interviewed Ken Zebuero O'Rae
1:48.3	and you sent the article to...
1:50.8	Oh my God, how do you remember these things?
1:53.0	I'm going to confess to you and this is going to be a problem for you.
1:58.3	If I wasn't married to the woman I'm married to, I would not remember any of my life. The nature...
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