Silvers and Epstein founded and built the magazine organically, making their chemistry a difficult thing to recreate. But Greenhouse and Winslow-Yost believe that their own longtime friendship, and most importantly the time they spent working together for Silvers, will help them share power.
“Working as an assistant at the Review is a tag-in, tag-out experience, and you necessarily establish a trust,” Greenhouse said. “Gabe and I met eight years ago now, maybe longer, and we have a real trust in our relationship.”
In separate interviews, both editors said they don’t expect to divide the workload into distinct subject areas, aside from a few exceptions.
“He knows more about physics than I do,” Greenhouse said.
“She speaks French, and I do not,” Winslow-Yost said.
“But I would consider both of us generalists,” Greenhouse said. “I think we will make decisions together.” Greenhouse, who is expecting her first child next month, said the timing of the new job is “radically shocking” for her.
“Some things will sort themselves into one half of the head or the other, as we go,” Winslow-Yost said. “But the idea is not to divide things into two camps, which is, as I understand, how Bob and Barbara did it. They had to agree on every piece that went in, even if it took weeks of hammering out.”
Hederman said that Mendelsohn, in his role, would be in the office perhaps one day a week (“maybe more, that’s up to him”), and that his longtime relationship with Silvers, the Review and many of the magazine’s contributors could only help the younger co-editors as they begin their term.
“It’s been hard,” Winslow-Yost said of the time since Silvers’s death. “The whole place was conceived around him; the way the physical space worked. All of that was based around the very idiosyncratic and not replicable way he worked. It’s taken a while to learn how to function as a magazine without him there.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/books/nyrb-emily-greenhouse-gabriel-winslowyost.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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