Emily Greenhouse

So what is a magazine for? And how big does a magazine have to be to matter? Today's episode was recorded live this summer at Berlin's Klosterruine, where I talked with two guests who have thought a lot about these questions as both writers and editors.

Emily Greenhouse is the editor of the New York Review of Books, the magazine founded in the 1960s by New York intellectuals that published Susan Sontag, James Baldwin, or Joan Didion.

Merve Emre is a critic, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the director of the Center for Criticism and Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.

We talked about the dissolution of ego that happens when writers and editors work well together.

I, I think, I hope new drinks have arrived and we will hang out for a bit more.

Bye-bye.

[outro music] That was Merve Emre and Emily Greenhouse recorded live in Berlin.

You can read all Merve Emre's essays and the Chinamaxing piece Merve so kindly plugged at the end at blnreview.de, where you'll also find reviews, podcasts, and stories from writers from around the world.