The New Yorker magazine's David Remnick talks with All Things Considered's Senior Host Robert Siegel about his new collection of essays at an event hosted by the Smithsonian Associates in Washington, DC. Reporting is divided into five parts and covers such topics as the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, post-Communist Russia and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This is event was moderated by Barbara Tuceling, Director of Smithsonian Associates
David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998. He reported for The Washington Post from 1982 to 1991 and is the author of The Devil Problem, King of the World, Lenin's Tomb and Resurrection.
Bio
David Remnick
David Remnick was a staff writer for The New Yorker from 1992 to 1998, when he took over as editor. He is the author of several books, including Lenin's Tomb (Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award) and the best-selling The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.
Robert Siegel
Robert Siegel, a senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered, got started in radio news when he was a college freshman in 1964. He's still at it.
A graduate of New York's Stuyvesant High School and Columbia University, Siegel began his career in radio at the college radio station WKCR-FM where he anchored coverage of the 1968 Columbia demonstrations. The station's work received an award from the Writers Guild of America East.
Siegel is the editor of The NPR Interviews 1994, The NPR Interviews 1995, and The NPR Interviews 1996—compilations of NPR's most popular radio conversations from each year.
I found David Remnick is really forthcoming in this interview. The way he describes his experiences as a foreign correspondent in Russia is fascinating.