David Remnick on Notebooks, Reporting, and the Stories That Shape Our Time
6/4/202650 min
David Remnick is a Pulitzer Prize winner and has helmed The New Yorker for 27 years. He joins the show not only to recount his own travels – from Moscow to Tel Aviv to campaign trails and tour buses – but also to reflect on what nearly three decades of dispatching the world's finest writers has revealed about history, cultural connectedness, and the vast breadth of stories to be found.
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- Mona Museum Images (in order of appearance)
- Museum of Old and New Art. Photo Credit: Mona/Stu Gibson. Image courtesy of Mona, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Girls Rule, 2016-18, Tom Otterness. Photo credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artists and Mona, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Snack 1970 - 72. Sir Sidney Nolan. Photo Credit: MONA/Jesse Hunniford. Image Courtesy MONA Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Museum of Old and New Art. Photo credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy Mona, Hobart, Tasmania
- Siloam tunnels, Museum of Old and New Art. Photo credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artist and Mona, Hobart, Tasmania
- Unseen Seen, 2017. Artist: James Turrell. Photo Credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artist and Mona, Hobart, Tasmania
- Museum of Old and New Art. Photo credit: Mona/Rémi Chauvin. Image courtesy of Mona, Hobart, Tasmania
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First 90 secondsDavid Prior· Host0:00
[instrumental music] Pushkin. Not all travel requires a passport. Some of it requires a pen. That's the world of David Remnick. As editor-in-chief of The New Yorker for 27 years, David Remnick has dispatched the finest writers of our time to the farthest corners of the globe, and he's read and refined every word they've reported back. David himself has reported from Moscow in the final days of the Soviet Union, on campaign trails, and from the tour buses of the greatest musicians. He spent his early years moving to where the story took him, but in recent decades, the stories have come to him instead. He's a Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the great editors of his generation. However, despite his great knowledge and intellect, he never condescends to those he's in conversation with, whether it's in his pages or in person. Today, I wanna ask him not so much about where he's been, but what the magazine has uncovered and continues to reveal about the world. Here's my conversation with the great David Remnick. [upbeat music] David Remnick, it's an honor. I'm so grateful.
David Remnick· Guest1:17
Thanks for having me.
David Prior· Host1:18
Yeah. Well, thanks. I wanted to start off referencing a particular article that was a real problem for me as a p- owner of a travel company, [laughs] which came out, I guess, in 2023.
David Remnick· Guest1:29
It was bad for business?