She will be enormously missed as a daily presence in the office (where she has commuted every day from Philadelphia), but will continue on from afar as a regular contributor and columnist.ĭave joins Books on Jan. She leaves us to take many splendid trips abroad. Please join us in thanking Alida for bringing her taste, discernment, dry humor, infinite collegiality and myriad talents to the Book Review. Her purview has included all of the following and more: literary fiction, crime, thrillers, gardening, fashion and design, all things Australia and New Zealand, Chinese and Japanese literature, travel, cookbooks, British and French royalty and any book she deemed “amusing” even when it wasn’t her “cup of tea.” She has worked with practically every writer and critic of note who has appeared in the Book Review for the last three decades. She would only want us to be brief here (Alida signs all her missives “hasty best”), but we cannot let this moment pass without acknowledging her extraordinary contributions to our pages. Alida has been such a crucial part of the Book Review that it’s hard to imagine it without her.
This happy occasion also marks a bittersweet one: the retirement of Alida Becker, who will be leaving the Book Review and The Times after 30 years as a preview editor. We are thrilled to welcome him to the Book Review. After a few years eking out a living as a film critic in San Francisco, he moved to New York in 2005 to get an M.F.A.
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His short stories have appeared in a number of literary journals, and he wrote articles on art and architecture before focusing on editing full time.ĭave was raised in Los Angeles and studied English at University of California, Berkeley. Before that, he was a freelance editor for magazines and literary journals and an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute and City College of New York, where he taught writing and literature. A clue perhaps.ĭave started at The Times in 2015 as a roving staff editor on various copy desks, including a turn on the Book Review where he first revealed himself to us as a true book person. His last big National story was about books? Hmmmm. He played a big role in a recent blockbuster piece by Dana Goldstein comparing textbooks in California and Texas.
He started on the desk in August 2017, which he points out was “just after Charlottesville just before Hurricane Harvey.” Dave has shepherded our education coverage as well, becoming an expert in college admissions policies and the demands of striking school teachers. Dave Kim, a senior staff editor on National, will be joining the Book Review as a preview editor later this month, primarily covering literary fiction.ĭuring his more than two years on National, Dave has been in the middle of some of the biggest breaking news stories of our time.
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