Apparently I've Been Busy
Things have been busy here on upper Broadway for the past couple of days. Apparently someone important just resigned his job....
Sam Teller of
FM, the Crimson's weekly magazine, interviews me for their "Fifteen Minutes With..." feature. I slagged Sam last week for what struck me as over-the-top questioning during his interview with Judith Ryan, but he was fair to me and so I take it all back.
Which is not to say that I was
completely satisfied, Sam.
To wit: Your headline calls me a "Harvard critic." Eh...not really. I can live with "Larry Summers critic," but I'm a big believer in Harvard.
Also, if you're going to call me a Harvard critic, shouldn't you at least mention that I went there? "A.M., '91," if you must know. ("Harvard dropout," if you prefer.) I know you
Crimson folks don't give a damn about the grad school, but I did study and teach at Harvard for three years. You can look it up in the CUE guide!
Also, you have a little punctuation error that makes it look as if I refer to MIT prof Nancy Hopkins by her first name. I've never met the woman, and since I talk about her being caricatured, it's unfortunate that I sound comfortable referring to a female professor I've never met as "Nancy." Not so.
Also, I can't believe you quoted me as saying that I find the New York Times Magazine "so dull."
Okay, so I did say that. And okay, so I do think the Times Mag is massively boring. But still...I'm trying to make a living here.
And finally, since we talked about this blog so much, couldn't you at least put in a hyperlink to it on the electronic version of the interview? Seems only logical.
There. Thanks to the rest of you for indulging that. And Sam, I enjoyed our conversation.
