The IHT’s People section today carries a quote attributed to David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, about his fiction and literary editor Bill Buford, who will be quitting at the end of the year. Buford was “one of the great fiction editors that The New Yorker has ever had,” says Remnick.

Did the editing go awry in Remnick’s head, or in the head of an IHT copy editor, as I suspect? Or perhaps Remnick meant exactly what he said?