The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, reflects on the role of the longform writer or filmmaker in capturing the complexities of the world. He notes that the world is constantly moving, and it's the job of storytellers to pause and document the beauty, tragedy, and weirdness that unfolds.
Remnick emphasizes the importance of storytelling in making sense of the world's chaos and complexity.
David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
Remnick's words serve as a reminder of the power of storytelling to capture the essence of human experience and to inspire empathy and understanding.