![]() ![]() Her narrative became more complicated in 1994, when she used then-Legal Times writer Daniel Klaidman’s prose in a New Republic story about the young Turks in the Clinton administration. That may still be true, but those memoirs will now include an operatic chapter about her early rise and fall in the city of Washington, D.C. White and suggested that we will all anxiously await her memoirs one day. One particularly perfervid profile of Shalit mentioned her in the same breath as Hemingway and E. Somewhere amidst all the buzz and sizzle, Shalit made the quintessentially ’90s journey from media employee to media celebrity. ![]() Her first real job out of college made her famous and well-compensated in a business not known for either. By the time she was 24, contracts, assignments, and bouquets were arriving steadily from some of the most reliable brand names in the business: the New York Times Magazine, GQ, and the New York Observer, among others. As a featured writer in the opinion journal the New Republic beginning in 1993, she was a gorgeous stylist, with a gift for rendering the distant cousins of literary detail and policy nuance, often separated by nothing more than a comma. It’s hard to remember that at a time when being a hot young writer in Washington was a big deal, Shalit was the biggest deal of all. ![]()
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