Trick or Treat?

NewMexiKen is going to take about 10 days off. At least that’s my plan. Perhaps some Halloween photos will appear along the way, we’ll see.

Otherwise, see you on or about November 8th.

But, before I go, Richard Dreyfuss is 63 today, Kate Jackson of Charlie’s Angels is 62, Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, is 53, and Winona Ryder is 39.

David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, is 52.

There have been just four editors of The New Yorker before him: Harold Ross, William Shawn, Robert Gottlieb, and Tina Brown. At the magazine, Remnick has inadvertently distinguished himself from his colorful predecessors by his trademark sanity, lack of eccentricity, and calm style. Editorial director Henry Finder said: “I think he regards the editor’s job as being not crazy. The writer’s prerogative is to be, perhaps, a little crazy.”

The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor