Editing David Remnick (section)

==Background==
Remnick was born to a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family<ref>{{Cite web|last= Rosenberg |first=MJ |title= Israel: The Ground Shifts |publisher=[[Huffington Post]]|date=May 25, 2011 |url= https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/david-remnick-israel_b_836800.html }}</ref> in [[Hackensack, New Jersey]], the son of Barbara (Seigel), an art teacher, and Edward C. Remnick, a dentist.{{cn|date=February 2025}} He was raised in [[Hillsdale, New Jersey]], in a Jewish home with, he has said, "a lot of books around."<ref name="wood">Wood, Gaby (September 10, 2006). [https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2006/sep/10/observermagazine "The quiet American"]. ''[[The Observer]]''. Retrieved April 10, 2011. "David Remnick was born in 1958 and grew up in [[Hillsdale, New Jersey]], where his father was a dentist and his mother an art teacher."</ref> He attended [[Yavneh Academy (New Jersey)|Yavneh Academy]] in Paramus.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/paul-mccartney-doesnt-really-want-to-stop-the-show|title=Paul McCartney Doesn't Really Want to Stop the Show|magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=October 8, 2021}}</ref> Remnick was also a childhood friend of comedian [[Bill Maher]].<ref name="Nymag1">{{cite web|last1=Hagan|first1=Joe|title="It Won't Hurt You. It's Vapor."|date=April 6, 2012 |url=http://nymag.com/news/features/bill-maher-2012-4/index3.html|access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> He attended [[Pascack Valley High School]] in Hillsdale.<ref name="Independent1">{{cite web|last1=Sale|first1=Jonathan|title=Passed/Failed: An education in the life of David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/passedfailed-an-education-in-the-life-of-david-remnick-editor-of-the-new-yorker-420607.html|website=The Independent|date=October 23, 2011|access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> At Pascack Valley High School he studied Russian and was thereby inspired to also study the politics and culture of the USSR.

He was graduated [[summa cum laude]] from [[Princeton University]] in 1981 with an A.B. in comparative literature; there he met writer [[John McPhee]], was a member of the [[University Press Club]], and helped found ''[[The Nassau Weekly]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/04/04/david-remnick-selected-class-day-speaker|title=David Remnick selected as Class Day speaker|website=Princeton University|language=en|access-date=August 10, 2019}}</ref> Remnick completed a 122-page-long senior thesis titled "The Sympathetic Thread: 'Leaves of Grass' 1855-1865."<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Remnick|first=David J.|date=1981 |title=The Sympathetic Thread: 'Leaves of Grass' 1855-1865 |url=http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp012j62s683d |work=Princeton University Senior Theses |degree=Comparative Literature |location=Princeton, New Jersey |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=23 February 2025}}</ref> Remnick has implied that after college he wanted to write novels, but due to the illnesses of his parents, he needed to get a job. Wanting to be a writer, he took a job at ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://politi.co/21raXZ8|title=David Remnick laments the 'cultural serfdom' of young writers on the web|last=Levy|first=Nicole|website=POLITICO Media|date=November 13, 2013 |language=en|access-date=August 10, 2019}}</ref>