2. America has had a handful of great magazine editors like Harold Ross or William Shawn. Silvers was of that league.
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3. Silvers (along with the late Barbara Epstein) was the heart & soul of the New York Review since its 1963 founding.
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We'll have a fuller obituary tomorrow which will do justice to both.
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Thanks for taking time to commemorate Mr. Silvers's passing. The NY Review has been my linkage to a wider community for 30 years.
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Silver won a presidential medal of freedom, which is infinitely more than you will in your life.pic.twitter.com/5HdRz0XpI6
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Who remembers Naipaul having to admit to an embarrassing mistake in analyzing The Secret Agent?
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Can anyone rise to the occasion and explain what the NYRB was, wasn't, is and isn't? Perry Anderson on the LRB suggests: no.
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