We Should Be So Lucky

a friend's book, a sexist review, the life of the mind, and a brief return to glamour

This is Emily Writes Back, a newsletter for brilliant people, by Emily Sanders Hopkins.

Last night, I got to interview my friend Amy in front of a crowd about her new book, The World She Edited, a pager-turner of a biography of Katharine White, a longtime editor at The New Yorker magazine.

Katharine White basically held my dream job—and maybe Amy’s too—f…