For this week’s issue of the magazine, I talked with Spike Lee for New York’s In Conversation feature. Lee has a reputation for being a difficult interview, but I found him more challenging than adversarial: He enjoys bantering and pushing his interviewer, but it’s more because he’s constantly thinking and plotting and trying to get Exactly. My. Point. Across. than that he’s being a dick or anything. I greatly enjoyed our discussion and felt honored to have the opportunity. And for what it’s worth, I think his best five movies, in alphabetical order, are Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Mo Better Blues, The 25th Hour and When the Levees Broke. Also in the issue this week I wrote a column about the Mets. I’m all over this issue.

For this week’s issue of the magazine, I talked with Spike Lee for New York’s In Conversation feature. Lee has a reputation for being a difficult interview, but I found him more challenging than adversarial: He enjoys bantering and pushing his interviewer, but it’s more because he’s constantly thinking and plotting and trying to get Exactly. My. Point. Across. than that he’s being a dick or anything. I greatly enjoyed our discussion and felt honored to have the opportunity. And for what it’s worth, I think his best five movies, in alphabetical order, are Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Mo Better Blues, The 25th Hour and When the Levees Broke.

Also in the issue this week I wrote a column about the Mets. I’m all over this issue.

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    When I interviewed Spike Lee several years ago, I found him to be delightfully smart, as he is in the interview above.
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    So amazing.
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