Free Rein
PODESTA,Lesley (Lesley.PODESTA@dewrsb.gov.au)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:59:01 +1000 (EST)
Camille wrote:
"Could you imagine any single writer today being allowed
free rein in a magazine of that significance to fill the
pages with
whatever he liked? The only person I could imagine them
letting do that,
the only person for whom the coup would be big enough to
make the whole
exercise worthwhile is .... well, Salinger(: Perhaps the New
Yorker were
aware that it would be seen as a coup in the years to come."
Actually Christopher Hitchens seemed to get pretty much a free rein under
Tina Brown at The New Yorker.
Lesley