Chapter 7
In a Twitter era, Brenna James still had newsprint in her blood when it wasn’t smudging her nose and fingers. That was partly because she was the daughter of Mort James, who had risen from sportswriter to editor-in-chief of The New York Record, the city’s most influential newspaper. But mostly it was because Brenna was obsessed with print—books, magazines, newspapers, maps, scores, anything that allowed her to turn pages. The computer, despite her facility with languages in any medium, left her cold.
Terrified that she would wind up the slave to news and locker-rooms that her husband had been, Brenna’s mother, the former Catherine van Duzen, had steered her daughter through convent school, Sarah Lawrence College, a PhD in art history at Harvard and an early career as arts edito
