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March 26, 2004
ANOTHER PROSE ALERT
We always knew David Remnick was an A.J. Liebling buff. He reminds us once again with "Reporting It All," a sweet piece in the current issue of The New Yorker honoring the centennial of Liebling's birth. The magazine has also put online from its archive a terrific piece by Liebling himself, "Ahab and Nemesis," about the sweet science.
What surprised us, though, was that Remnick revealed his person to be such an old-fashioned writer in another piece for the current issue, "After Madrid," his Talk of the Town commentary about the Madrid train bombings. "In recent years," he writes, "Osama bin Laden has concealed his person from spies and Predator drones but has hidden his intentions and his sense of historical mission in plain sight." Impeccable idea. Peccable style. Concealed his person? So 19th century. What's wrong with concealed himself? Yes, we're being picky, picky.
Posted by at March 26, 2004 10:23 AM