Lawrence Weschler is working on starting a new serious thoughtful non-fiction magazine – Omnivore. In the meantime, he talks about his ideals. “What he longs for is a return to the “non-Pavlovian” reading and writing experiences he enjoyed when he would come across a two-part, 40,000-word piece on surfing, say, and be swept away by the dynamic drive of the narrative, an experience that he could relive around the dinner table the following weekend because his friends would have exulted in the same article. As a writer, he mourns the cherished experiences under the halcyon days, for him anyway, when William Shawn edited The New Yorker.”