There's no doubt that Ali wrote a great deal of what he recited.
I actually have great hopes for the future.
Bill Buford has been one of the great fiction editors in the history of the magazine, bringing into our pages countless new voices, ... He has an intelligence and an imagination that has made itself known in the magazine all the time, and I know he will do that, too, as a writer.
The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine,