One of my favorite literary critics, James Wood, is leaving the New Republic to become a staff writer at the New Yorker.
A funny quote from Wieseltier:
Leon Wieseltier, literary editor at The New Republic, said that “The New Republic plays many significant roles in American culture, and one of them is to find and to develop writers with whom The New Yorker can eventually staff itself.”
(Now if only Wood would hurry up and bring out the latest edition of Philip Roth’s collected works at the Library of America.)
