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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 28, 2015, 10:20:25 pm ---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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I understood it was just today's, and, yeah, somebody should be in a lot of trouble tonight.
Front-Ranger:
The July 20 issue was really interesting to me, the cartoons were funny and the articles were engaging. In contrast, I dispatched with the latest issue in less than an hour. Maybe one of you will point out to me something I missed.
In addition to the book critique about The Tale of Gengi, I liked Dave Eggers "The Actual Hollister" about Hollister, California and the clothing line. Eggers is an author who I think captures the discontents of my generation very well. Of course there is "The Really Big One" which went viral in a big way, about the coming NW earthquake, and a review of the movie Mr. Holmes, which I saw on my birthday with my Sherlock group, Dr. Watson's Neglected Patients. The one fiction piece, "Ghosts and Empties" by Lauren Groff, was mildly interesting.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 01, 2015, 08:10:02 pm ---Eggers is an author who I think captures the discontents of my generation very well.
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That's an interesting observation, considering Eggers is 45.
Jeff Wrangler:
Over lunch today I enjoyed Joan Acocella's Aug. 3 piece on the book about stagefright. A lot of my enjoyment had to do with reading about so many famous performers who suffer from it.
Jeff Wrangler:
I just read the Aug. 3 article about the tunnels built by the Sinaloa drug cartel for drug smuggling, similar to the one used by El Chapo to escape from prison. I found the article fascinating. It's amazing what a sophisticated business operation the cartel is, and the same goes for the tunnel construction. Get this:
--- Quote ---At the house in Agua Prieta, the only way to access the tunnel was to turn on an outdoor water spigot; this triggered a hydraulic system that lifted up a billiard table in a game room on the ground floor, exposing a ladder to the tunnel.
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That's like something right out of TV or a movie.
Unfortunately, it seems the tunnels are built with slave labor, and when the tunnels are complete, the slaves are murdered. :(
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