David Remnick's Main Guilty Pleasure

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, talks about his guilty pleasure.

Question: What's your main guilty pleasure? David Remnick: What's my main guilty pleasure? There are so many. I guess I don’t read crappy books because I don’t have time. I feel that every ounce of my reading energy is to be either reading pieces in the New Yorker that are going to be published; pieces that might potentially be published, manuscripts. And then I try to keep one or two books of real heft going. That’s enough reading. I watch far too much television and it’s absolutely good for me. And I see most every movie that you can imagine that comes out. I’m not entirely proud of it, but there it is. And I don’t consider music a guilty pleasure and I listen to a lot of that of all different kinds. Question: What are you watching now? David Remnick: Nothing, nothing has replaced “The Sopranos” for pure sublimity. And I’m perfectly aware that there’s snobbery even in that. You know, “Mad Men” has potential, but I’m a little worried about it jumping the shark with that plot about his child. I think that might not entirely work out for the best. But we’ll see.