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  Jen Something replied on 06:37 PM on January 21, 2008
  Hey, I am trying to contact Sir Richard Brandson regarding the largest reward in history. Is that not a story worth telling? The reward is real(I think), and so am I.
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David Remnick: I have no idea.  I have no idea.  You know there’s a kind of . . .  It’s hard to know where all this began.  But in my life I . . .  You know I grew up reading Mad magazine and then National Lampoon.  And next thing you know where was “Saturday Night Live” and “David Letterman”.  Clearly this kind of highly ironic form increased, and increased, and increased.  And you know some of it is sublime.  Some of it is wonderful.  Some of it’s boring, and some of it’s nasty.  And really I’m kind of a one trick pony, and I try to pay attention to the stuff that I like.

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Since taking the helm of The New Yorker in 1998, Remnick has returned the magazine to its profitable glory days. The magazine has since won 21 National Magazine Awards. A graduate of Princeton University, Remnick began his journalistic career as a night police reporter at the Washington Post in 1982, becoming the paper’s Moscow correspondent in 1988. His coverage of the Soviet Union’s collapse led to his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1993 book Lenin’s tomb. Remnick has written four other books, including King of the World, his 1998 portrait of Muhammad Ali, and 1997’s Resurrection, an exploration of post-Soviet Russia. His book, Reporting, is a compilation of his reported pieces for The New Yorker. Remnick lives in New York with his wife, Esther Fein, and their three children.

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