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David Remnick: King of the World

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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By Michael Silverblatt • Feb 11, 1999 • 30m Listen

David Remnick, the new editor of the New Yorker, on the techniques of the profile. How does one journalist master sports writing for King of the World (Random House), his book on Ali, having won a Pulitzer for his anatomy of the new Russia?

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    Michael Silverblatt

    host, 'Bookworm'

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    David Remnick

    editor of The New Yorker

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