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In an e-mail to Toronto Star entertainment reporter Judy Stoffman (part of a longer column and interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick) , bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell (a native of Elmira, Ontario), compares Remnick to basketball star Tayshaun Prince.

"[Prince is] smooth and elegant and glides quietly around the court, never breaking a sweat, and then at the end of the game you look up and you realize that he's the top scorer. David is Tayshaun Prince. His workday consists of gliding around the office, being charming and helpful and thoughtful and funny and then at the end of the week he's not only put out another magazine but written the lead story. I have no idea how he does it."