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Jeremy Gordon
Mar 6
Air Gordon pt. 2

In Renata Adler’s memoir about the New Yorker — a unique text, to say the least — she notes that William Shawn enjoyed a review she’d written for the New York Review of Books (to state the obvious: a different publication than the New Yorker, which he edited), and sent her a check for $1500 (nearly $7000 today) to show his appreciation.

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Shon Faye
Mar 2

listening to The Vanity Fair Diaries on audiobook and hearing how in 1980s Tina Brown was paying writers $10,000 for a piece. Fully immersed in a world in which being a professional writer offered the chance of a comfortable income and essayists were feted household names. Being a culture writer in 2026 with an unedited Substack listenin…

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