"I'm told," he went on, "that Mr. Shawn said, 'The only good thing about all this is that Gottlieb is bringing Adam Gopnik to The New Yorker." He paused again. I thought, Perhaps he realizes that this is going a bit far. I waited. "It’s always been my dream to go to The New Yorker,” he said. "You don’t think, do you, that the staff will think I'm Bob’s catamite?"
