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Article: New Yorker editor returns to writing
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- October 28, 2002
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MAGAZINES
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 ...