Comment by ZeroGravitas
2 days ago
I believe this is a New Yorker magazine house style thing. I'd assume the author uses numerals in the book this article is based on.
2 days ago
I believe this is a New Yorker magazine house style thing. I'd assume the author uses numerals in the book this article is based on.
If there are two options, you can trust they'll go for the more verbose one.
Autors are often paid by word count. Note that I'm not saying that's the reason here, but it could be.