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Monday, May 08, 2006

David Remnick tells us about his best writings for The New Yorker--on everything from boxing to postcommunist Russia. Plus, Isabella Rossellini on writing and starring in a short film tribute to her father, Roberto Rossellini.

David Remnick's Writings from The New Yorker

David Remnick joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1992, and became editor in 1998. He's put together some of the best pieces he wrote for the magazine in the last fifteen years--from interviews with Al Gore, Mike Tyson, and Philip Roth, to articles on Russian and Israeli politics--for ...

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Isabella Rossellini Remembers Her Father

Isabella Rossellini's father, the Italian neorealist director Roberto Rossellini, died 28 years ago. Isabella still misses him. She'll tell us about the short film she wrote "My Dad is 100 Years Old," as a tribute to him on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Guy Maddin directed the film, in ...

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