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Without either William Shawn's New Yorker bang or William Whitworth's Atlantic whimper, Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's for nearly 30 years, announced today that he's stepping down. They have no successor yet, he'll still be writing for the magazine, and, certainly, he's had an amazing run that deserves to be commended.

Which is just what we were about to do, until we read this sentence in the press release:

In addition to editing the magazine and writing over 300 essays for it, Lapham, over the past 29 years, published 13 books and established himself as one of a handful of the country s public intellectuals.

And then we realized: We kind of hate him, the prolific bastard.

Editor of Harper's Will Retire [NYT]
Lewis Lapham to Become Editor Emeritus of Harper's Magazine [Harper's]