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J.F.
James Featherstone
— Office
New York
— Since
MMXXIV
— The Archive of

J. Featherstone

Profiles Editor, New York

Conducts the conversations that become Profiles, at length. Twenty years at major editorial titles before joining the Journal as profiles editor in MMXXIV.

Based in the New York office. Reads more than he writes; writes shorter than he reads. The conversation, in his view, is the work — the piece is the record of it.

Section II · The Anthology

Selected lines.

Five sentences from the writings of J. Featherstone, drawn from the Journal and from the advisor's notes that close the catalogue pages. Compiled by the editor.

The interview is not a question; it is a permission. The interviewer's job is to make the permission obvious, and then to be quiet long enough that the permission is used.
From "An hour with Henrietta Aldridge" · May MMXXVI Read the source
Twenty years of an Aspen approach is twenty years of one minute repeated four thousand times. What changes, in the minute, is the only thing worth asking about.
From "Captain Marcus Vance, on twenty years" · April MMXXVI Read the source
A reading list is a confession about what the reader does not yet know. The chief pilot's list is, predictably, mostly about the weather.
From "The chief pilot's reading list" · April MMXXVI Read the source
The desk in Zürich is a German conversation about a French routing for an Italian correspondent. The advisor's job is to make all three of those parties sound, on the call, like the same person.
From "On the desk in Zürich: a conversation" · March MMXXVI Read the source
A profile, in this Journal, is the record of an hour. The hour is the thing. The piece is what the hour leaves on the page when the recorder is switched off.
From "An hour with Henrietta Aldridge" · May MMXXVI Read the source
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By return of post.

A short note from the office whenever J. Featherstone publishes in the Journal. No more than three or four notes a year, by the editorial calendar; some years rather fewer.

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