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Front-Ranger:

--- Quote from: Jeff  Wrangler on May 03, 2010, 12:53:34 pm ---Well, here I am on the 3rd of May, finally catching up to the April 19 issue.  ;D

At lunch today I read the article by the writer who returned to the U.S. after living in China for 15 years. He and his wife settled in southwestern Colorado.  :D  One day they got a telephone call from a Chinese tour company that wanted to sell them a vacation tour to a mysterious land with lots of cowboys called Wai Er Ming. ...  ;D

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There was an interview with that author on the radio. About the culture shock of moving from Beijing, China to Ridgeway, Colorado. He sounds like an interesting fellow. I'll have to go rummage around in my pile of New Yorkers. Wonder what date my oldest one is? I know I have some pages from an issue from October 13, 1997.  :D

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 04, 2010, 07:28:19 pm ---I know I have some pages from an issue from October 13, 1997.  :D
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But have they been in your bedside table since it came out?  :)

Front-Ranger:

--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 04, 2010, 08:00:15 pm ---But have they been in your bedside table since it came out?  :)


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Sure enuff, friend!!  :)

serious crayons:
Anybody else reading the fiction issue? I just finished ZZ Packard's story, which is about two kids, former slaves, making their way across the backwoods of the South in the days immediately after Emancipation. It is really compelling and well-written, and strikes me as historically authentic. It reads like an excerpt from a novel; I will be looking out for this novel.

 

serious crayons:
Oh, and while I'm on this thread, have I ever mentioned how much I love James Surowiecki's "The Financial Page" columns? They're always about some complex and potentially dry financial/economic topic. But they're never boring -- they read like entertaining little self-enclosed stories, and I feel like I always learn something important from them. The one in the June 14/21 is about why federal regulators -- and, by extension, regulations -- have lost so much of their power, including the ones who could be partly held to blame for the BP oil spill. Sound a bit dull or turgid? Not at all!

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