Editing Sunday Review was a privilege and also full of minor annoying administrative tasks that I am trying to let loom large now, so I don’t miss the job too much. But one great administrative task was entering a writer’s name in the Times’ publishing system for the first time.
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So, to mark my last issue, I put together a list of firsts. Because even a retrospective twitter thread put together by someone with an extremely inconsistent and unsatisfying social media presence, to pick one random example, needs some framing.
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Before I go edit 2020 coverage, here are 20 bylines I got to put in the Times for the very first time (at least according to my memory and a Nexis search) and an early/favorite stories from them that I wanted to put here in scrapbook form.
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Lindy West on witch hunts:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/opinion/columnists/weinstein-harassment-witchunt.html …
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Kaitlyn Greenidge (
@surlybassey) on her mother's garden:https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/opinion/sunday/my-mothers-garden.html …Show this thread -
Jennine Capo Crucet (
@crucet) on going to college:https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/opinion/sunday/taking-my-parents-to-college.html …Show this thread -
Derek Black (
@rderekblack) on leaving white nationalism:https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/opinion/sunday/why-i-left-white-nationalism.html …Show this thread -
Aparna Nancherla (
@aparnapkin) on this very medium that she is a genius at and I am...not:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/opinion/sunday/to-tweet-is-human-to-delete-divine.html …Show this thread -
Rachel Sherman (
@rachelsherm) on rich people's secrets:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/opinion/sunday/what-the-rich-wont-tell-you.html …Show this thread -
Gerard Alexander on Jon Stewart:https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/opinion/sunday/jon-stewart-patron-saint-of-liberal-smugness.html …
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Maeve Higgins (
@maevehiggins) on two girls from Cobh who made it to the Big Apple:https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/sunday/aliens-of-extraordinary-and-ordinary-ability.html …Show this thread -
Samantha Irby (
@wordscience) on the problem with saving for a rainy day:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/opinion/sunday/rainy-day-savings-money.html …Show this thread -
Helen Andrews (
@herandrews) on the missing heirs to Phyllis Schlafly:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/opinion/sunday/conservative-women.html …Show this thread -
Jenny Han (
@jennyhan) on teen idols who look like her:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/opinion/sunday/crazy-rich-asians-movie-idol.html …Show this thread -
Kat Stoeffel on living in -- and, by extension, talking to one's parents on the phone in -- the age of the MSNBC mom:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/opinion/sunday/msnbc-cable-news-viewers-moms.html …
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Sarah Polley on making movies:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/opinion/sunday/harvey-weinstein-sarah-polley.html …
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Alec MacGillis (
@AlecMacGillis) on red and blue states: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/who-turned-my-blue-state-red.html … (Note: It is very likely that Alec would have written for the Times sooner rather than later without me, but I did call IT to figure out his byline formatting, and this is a good piece to reread.)Show this thread -
Roy Wood Jr. (
@roywoodjr) on Dick Gregory:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/opinion/dick-gregory-comedy-truth-death.html …Show this thread -
Salma Hayek on Weinstein. I lost the voicemail she left me, which I had of course planned to save forever. The story is here for posterity though: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html …
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Guy Branum's (
@guybranum) voice is a delight:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/my-gay-voice.html …Show this thread -
Katherine Mangu-Ward (
@kmanguward) on the perennial problem of well-meaning people keeping a woman tally:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/women-directors-quotas.html …Show this thread -
Caitlin Gill (
@ROBOTCAITLIN) on the name Caitlin/Caitlyn/C(K)ait(ate)li(y)n(n):https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/opinion/to-caitlyn-from-a-caitlin.html …Show this thread -
Alison Zeidman (
@alisonlzeidman) -- a person I'm very glad I met -- on the true delights of human interaction:https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/opinion/sunday/actually-weve-already-met.html …Show this thread
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