"i like to believe that all pitch meetings at a place like the new yorker must be like vicious battles where everyone shooting down each other's ideas, but that can't actually be how it is. It's nice rit they're fun a kind once you get used to them," he says. "Now i feel like i know how to go to them and have fun, and it's a pretty friendly atmosphere."
Michael Schulman is a staff writer for The New Yorker. He recently profiled Jeremy Strong of Succession.
”There's an interesting moment that's part of this job where you’ve spent a lot of time with someone and it often feels very personal and very intimate. And then when you go to write the piece, you have to sort of take a breath and say to yourself, Okay, I'm not writing this for this person. I'm writing this for the reader.”
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