what literary and political journalism requires... (thank you jk)

"It was while working with her (Barbara Epstein, editor of NY Review of Books, died June 16, 2006)) that I learned the most valuable lessons of our friendship. I began to see more clearly how literary and political journalism requires much more than the creation of harmonious and intellectually robust sentences; how it is linked inseparably to the cultivation of a moral and emotional intelligence; how it demands a reasonable and civil tone, a suspicion of abstractions untested by experience, a personal indifference to power, and, most importantly, a quiet but firm solidarity with the powerless." Pankaj Mishra

Thank you to JK, who forwarded this quotation to me.