David Remnick joked some say the difference between writing and editing is like the difference between a wife and a mistress - though he added he has never actually had a mistress.
"When you are writing, it's you and your thing. And when you're the editor, it's the work of others," said Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
"One's a wife and one's a mistress, but never having had the latter, it's hard to distinguish the difference in relationships. But there is one," he joked.
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One of the questions from the audience was about the controversial July 21 New Yorker cover of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle.
The cover portrayed Obama as a terrorist and unpatriotic, while Michelle was shown as a modern-day black panther.
"Around July during the Obama campaign, there was a persistence of racism in some parts of the United States," Remnick explained. "What we wanted to do in this one image was throw all the - excuse me - bullshit into one image."
Remnick said he believed The New Yorker's readers would understand the intent of the cover.
"It was my feeling that the New Yorker readership was smart enough and clued in enough to figure out what we were doing," he said of the Obama cover. "We were not branding him or charging him with this. We were, however, attempting to rip this image out of the psyche of Americans who believed this."
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