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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
Right after I read Gopnik on Go Set a Watchman, I turned to Jill Lepore's article, "Joe Gould's Teeth," because she is certainly one of my favorite writers. When I got to the part where she quoted someone quoting the tag line, "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" I laughed out loud (which, in context, perhaps wasn't very nice of me), because I knew what Flit was, and who was responsible for that line. 8)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flit
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 27, 2015, 05:57:17 pm ---I was so delighted to be browsing through the July 20 issue when I came upon a review of the latest translation of "The Tale of Genji" by Lady Murasaki, written in the 800s in Japan and set in the Heian Period. It is one of my favorite books, and I have owned a copy since my early 20s. I have read it several times even though it is about 1300 pages long. Murasaki is Japan's Proust, in my opinion. The article is called "The Sensualist".
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Impressive! I'd be happy to get through France's Proust.
Or, for that matter, the 1,100 page Infinite Jest, by an American of my own time and in fact one of my favorite writers (his essays, anyway). My son read it. It took him three years -- the first 10 pages or so during the first two years, and the rest over a couple of months last summer.
The only 1,000+ page book I've ever read is Gone With the Wind. Though I guess Stephen King's The Stand is pretty long, and I've read that, but in the original edited and shorter version.
serious crayons:
What's the world coming to? Here's the subject line from the daily digest the New Yorker emails me:
Today from The New Yorer
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 28, 2015, 08:06:30 pm ---What's the world coming to? Here's the subject line from the daily digest the New Yorker emails me:
Today from The New Yorer
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Oh, my God. :(
Somewhere, Mr. Shawn and everybody back to Harold Ross weeps.
serious crayons:
I should clarify (in case I wasn't already clear) that that's just from today's digest. Normally it's fine. But still! I get a handful of publications' digests -- from the Atlantic, New York, etc. -- and I've never seen one that wasn't typo-free. Somebody's probably in trouble tonight.
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