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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 12, 2015, 10:43:17 pm ---Oh no, Jeff, don't do that! The carbs would be bad for you.
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;D
serious crayons:
Finally finished a long Samantha Power profile from December. (Not that I've been reading it since December -- I ripped it out of an issue before recycling and added it to my stack of single articles and have been reading it off and on for at least a week -- it's pretty long.)
Anyway, I would say the interest level of the article is pretty closely correlated with a reader's preliminary interest in Samantha Power. In other words, if you don't start with some, this piece will not change that. I was somewhat interested in her (how can you not be interested in a woman who writes a Pulitzer-winning book about genocide, critiquing the U.S. response -- at age 32?) so the article was somewhat interesting.
Unlike, say, the profile of Brian Grazer from a few years back, which turned someone I had absolutely no interest in into probably my favorite film producer. (Before that, I didn't even have a favorite film producer. I barely could have could have named any film producers! Louis B. Mayer? Irving Thalberg? Actually, Irving Thalberg was my favorite until then -- glamorous wunderkind, roman-a-clef hero of F. Scott Fitzgerald's posthumously published "The Last Tycoon" -- but he died 79 years ago, at age 37.)
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm reading one of my favorites, Atul Gawande, in the May 11 issue. He describes himself (still) as a "general surgeon," though he does have a specialty, but somehow I can't imagine going to him for something general, like a hernia repair. ... ;D
I don't even remember the Samantha Power profile. Now that you mention it, I remember Brian Grazer profile, but I don't remember anything about it. :(
Front-Ranger:
The latest issue has a lot going for it.
A three-panel cover by Bruce McCall highlights innovators since caveman times.
I just finished reading World Without End by Raffi Khatchadourian, about Sean Murray, who is creating a space exploration video game with 18 quatrillion planets to explore. Mind-blowing.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 14, 2015, 11:47:17 am ---The latest issue has a lot going for it.
A three-panel cover by Bruce McCall highlights innovators since caveman times.
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I love it that one of the innovations is the hula-hoop! ;D
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