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‘A Bloodless Coup’

The Panero recently announced my accession to the position of Assistant Editor at the New Criterion, from which Associate Editor Stefan Beck is sadly departing at the end of the month. The most ardent followers of this little corner of the web will recall that I interned at the august publication in the summer of 2005. I started work just yesterday and am already privy to all the guild secrets of the New Criterion. If I am unexpectedly found dead at the bottom of a river with my heart carved out and my hands tied behind my back, look for Stefan Beck. He’ll be the one with the daring but strangely successful combination of seersucker and denim, sunning himself on a Greek isle.

Previously: Awaiting Pars Secunda | Whither Cusack?

Published at 10:08 pm on Wednesday 8 November 2006. Categories: General Tags: .
Comments

Congratulations!

— MCNS 9 Nov 2006 7:21 am

Congratulations, Mr. Cusack, on your new job. I hope you are paid enough to keep you in port and pipe tobacco.

— Old Dominion Tory 9 Nov 2006 9:10 am

Bravo and jolly good show old boy!

— Enoch Soames and Basil Seal 9 Nov 2006 9:24 am

Andrew, my very best congratulations on a richly deserved appointment!

— Random Penseur 9 Nov 2006 10:41 am

Bravo Andrew! God bless you in your new job.

— Tori 9 Nov 2006 11:39 am

Congratulations, Mr Cusack!

— Boeciana 9 Nov 2006 4:26 pm

Congrats. Hope to meet you at one of those NC happy hours at some point.

I guess you belong in the NY section of my blogroll now.

— Karol 9 Nov 2006 5:03 pm

Best of luck. I’ll be sure to check out the journal and see what you’re up to.

Congrats!

— Alessandro 9 Nov 2006 5:51 pm

Good news indeed, although I am sorry to see that two days on the new job have you writing about someone carving out your heart. Tell Beck he is is “A-Number One” and he will let you off with a warning. (Has worked for me.

— Steve M. 9 Nov 2006 6:04 pm

Congratulations. A good omen for you and the magazine.

— Harold 9 Nov 2006 8:16 pm

Ah, so it’s not just your parents that are happy you are gainfully employed. You are an excellent lodger!

— mom 10 Nov 2006 8:28 am

Golly Cusack! You’re employed. Well well. What are you going to do with your Idle Bachelor’s Club membership card?

Frame it and put it on your office wall.

You’re going to be drummed out of the Drones for sure!

What ho! Now I’m going to have to subscribe to the New Criterion.

— hilary 10 Nov 2006 9:59 am

cammore congratulates you sir.
i am truly surprised someone employed you. i mean you! of all the people in the world.
well it just shows that hard work is not needed for a successful career in the media biz is not essential after all.
i might move to canada next year and do evangelism with the ‘youth’. but i need to sort it out. mmmm, scotland is dark and cold. i imagine that america is warm. although i think chills of disdain might be permeating your soul at the thought of the democrats winning the election?
i know what you think about ‘liberals’. although the democrats are very conservative for the european palet.
anyway have to go i have to organise my raisin weekend party. i have 10 kids!
glad to hear life after uni exists. sometimes it seems that only the dole awaits me, but you have proven me wrong! so well done you.
and if one day i am an unemployed addict i know who to call!
thats you by the by.
okay well have to go.
going to the vic. havnt been there for ever. do you remember the bonnie wee town of ye olde st andrews. alas you have left us all?
whats it like? being ‘american’ again?
tell me, i’d love to hear your reall accent one of these days. lol

— kenny 11 Nov 2006 4:20 pm

i just canceled my subscription to the new criterion. That, of course, was right after I read this vain little exercise in blatant narcissim and proceeded to laugh at you and prayed for the immortal souls of the fools who hired you.

— you'reanidiot 18 Nov 2006 5:29 pm
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