It's a very broad canvas.Īs for magazines, I read Harper's, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the Nation, National Review, and the Financial Times. So I'll be reading Thucydides, Gibbon, Voltaire, Dorothy Parker, Herman Melville. When I get to the office, mostly I'm reading for the quarterly, in which case I'm pursuing an idea-whether it's War, Money, Education or the City-whatever the forthcoming issue will address. On the way to the office, I read the New York Times in paper. I don't read the newspaper until I have a coffee and head to the office. I wake up in the morning and read for probably an hour, hour and a half before I actually get up. When I was the editor of Harpers magazine, I used to keep up with the news. This is from a conversation with Lewis Lapham, editor of Lapham's Quarterly, and editor emeritus and national correspondent for Harper's magazine. How do people deal with the torrent of information that rains down on us all? What's the secret to staying on top of the news without surrendering to the chaos of it? In this series, we ask people who seem well-informed to describe their media diets. This article is from the archive of our partner.
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