Article: New Yorker editor returns to writing

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New Yorker editor returns to writing

By HILARY MACGREGOR Los Angeles Times

Monday, October 28, 2002

After eight years at the New Yorker, during which he published a range of unknown, up-and-coming authors, Bill Buford will return to writing.

Buford, 48, recently announced that he would depart his post as fiction and literary editor at the end of December.

"I think Bill is one of the great fiction editors that the New Yorker has ever had," said David Remnick, editor of the magazine. "It is always wonderful to keep publishing your terrific mainstays, like (John) Updike or (Alice) Munro, but everyone's challenge is to bring new voices into the chorus. He was able to do that with real ...

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