A torch has been passed. Or maybe a bird has been flipped.
Wieseltier would. He wrote back a long letter praising the Point as “handsome” and “defiantly classical.” And for the editors to use as they wished, he wrote this: “The Point should lift every sagging humanist spirit. It is intellectually serious, independent, far-reaching, spirited, and elegant—a stirring act of resistance against the shrinkage of intellectual life in our culture of takeaways and metrics. This is what a journal of ideas should look like. It emboldens me to think that the torch may indeed be passed.”
First comes Wieseltier’s tribute and then the pitch.
The idea of the promo was to get readers to think “of what we’re doing as being continuous with what TNR Books was doing.” On that front there’d been “very positive feedback” from the public, and also from TNR editors thanking the Point, asking for copies, and even tweeting.
