From Now On, Call Me Elaine Kramer’s Son
“The New Yorker interview“ of my mother (well, I’m not sure it is really an interview, since they only used one line — but we’re still proud!)
(backstory here)
(They never used my mother’s best line:
Q: What do you like best about your new office?
A: It is closer to the bathroom!)
You’re the best, Mom!
Update: Gawker, of course, writes about the New Yorker article and name drops authors like Tom Wolfe, but never mentions my mother. Hey, what’s the matter with you guys?!
Tags: Elaine Kramer, Farrar Straus and Giroux, The New Yorker
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I LOVE IT!!!!
thats the perfect response. thanks your mom for your existence Neilochka.
By melanie on 02.25.08 9:51 am
Your mother totally rules!
By Pants on 02.25.08 10:04 am
Congratulations, Elaine!
xoxo
By Not Fainthearted on 02.25.08 10:10 am
Woo Hoo, Elaine Kramer!!!
Your mom rocks, Neil!
By Roadchick on 02.25.08 11:07 am
Your poor mom had almost 40 years of cold water in the ladies room at work?
DUDE!
She totally deserves to be in the New York Times, too!
P.S. They TOTALLY should have used her line.
By Loralee on 02.25.08 11:15 am
Can you get me her autograph?
By Eileen Dover on 02.25.08 11:20 am
That’s so cool… GO MOM!
By Atomic Bombshell on 02.25.08 11:34 am
Gratz (online computer gaming spelling) to your Mommy.
By TRO on 02.25.08 11:48 am
Elaine Kramer’s Son,
What a great lady, your mom. The New Yorker is a big deal.
By LVGurl on 02.25.08 12:02 pm
Shite Neil, your darling mother is so stinking cosmopolitan !
By sassy on 02.25.08 12:27 pm
I’m gasping - your mother met Isaac Bashevis Singer? Really?
By suburbancorrespondent on 02.25.08 1:07 pm
Your mom is too cool.I’ll never be able to impress my two daughters by getting an interview in the New Yorker.
By churlita on 02.25.08 1:10 pm
For a minute I thought you were claiming to be the product of Elaine and Kramer…
Then, I read the article in New Yorker! Nice! Tell us, was your mother pleased?
By Diane Mandy on 02.25.08 1:26 pm
Your mother got the memo on how to survive a nuclear attack and the rest of us didnt? She’s definitely special.
By Akaky on 02.25.08 2:04 pm
Your mom is cool :-).
By Annie on 02.25.08 2:13 pm
That’s AWESOME.
It’s pretty amazing that your mom has worked at this place for over 50 years. So I’m guessing her resume hasn’t been updated in a while, eh? Pretty amazing.
By teahouseblossom on 02.25.08 4:14 pm
she really is the talk of the town!!!
By better safe than sorry on 02.25.08 4:23 pm
Very cool! Is your mom enjoying being a celebrity?
By Stacey on 02.25.08 5:25 pm
Kudos to Mrs Kramer. What a fascinating place to have worked in for so long. The stories she could tell, hey?
By Artful Kisser on 02.25.08 5:51 pm
If I ever got my name in the New Yorker, I’d be sleeping with the issue, hugging it to my chest. Congrats and sweet dreams Mrs Kramer!
By Fairly Odd Mother on 02.25.08 6:13 pm
I actually owe a lot to Farrar Straus and Girous. Because publishing pays so little, they usually let people take home a free copy of each book published. So, you can imagine how many books we were surrounded by. At a certain point, my mother just stopped taking books home because there was no room. I got my love for reading and literature by skimming through all the novels she bought home for the dirty parts.
By Neil on 02.25.08 8:52 pm
Neil, I used to read my big sister’s Cosmos for the same reason–the LITERARY value and the artistic photo of Burt Reynolds (first male centerfold, for those of you who are not ANCIENT like me).
I’m glad your mom got her 15 minutes of fame, and working in accounts, I’m sure she’s so PROUD of her son, the coupon clipper. We are too. XO
By V-Grrrl on 02.25.08 10:31 pm
thank you,thank you,thank you. it really
was nothing. but i dont give out autographs. You might try to sell it on E-Bay.
By ekramer on 02.26.08 5:39 am
Your mom is the coolest. You should develop a sitcom script set at a New York publisher with your mom as the main character. Maybe Helen Mirren can play her.
By Danny on 02.26.08 9:32 am
like i’m “truman’s mom”. welcome to my hell.
By sweetney on 02.26.08 10:04 am
If I send you my copy of the New Yorker, will you give me YOUR autograph? I mean, you’re Elaine Kramer’s son!
By Catheroo on 02.26.08 11:50 am
I really like Danny’s suggestion! Can I be written into the script as a copy editor or editor at that company? (I need a full-time, if imaginary, job!)
Neil, you’ve got “yichus” (ask Mom what that means, if you don’t already know; it’s ’cause of her that you’ve got it.)
By TorontoPearl on 02.26.08 9:12 pm
Your mom is quoted in “The New Yorker”. That is just so cool, Neil! Congratulations on having a famous mom!
By Geeky Tai-Tai on 02.27.08 7:21 pm
oh my god I totally read that article a few days ago, and had no idea that elaine kramer was mommylochka! her section even made it to gawker!
By maitresse on 02.28.08 4:27 am
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