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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 13, 2016, 04:39:05 pm ---I have tried and tried to read the latest fiction by George Saunders called "Mother's Day" but I just can't finish it. Saunders covers the strange lives of suburbanites a la John Updike but there is just something so. . .mean spirited about it.
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You make it sound interesting, but my subscription hasn't restarted yet. :(
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 13, 2016, 04:39:05 pm ---I have tried and tried to read the latest fiction by George Saunders called "Mother's Day" but I just can't finish it. Saunders covers the strange lives of suburbanites a la John Updike but there is just something so. . .mean spirited about it.
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I haven't read that yet, but normally I love George Saunders. I'll check it out and see what I think.
Meanwhile, here's a kind of amusing essay by someone who tried to read a year's worth of New Yorkers at once, duty articles and all. It becomes an entertaining and educational yet grueling slog.
The New Yorker feast I had planned for myself was quickly devolving into a hotdog eating contest.
http://lithub.com/a-bikini-a-toothbrush-and-44-issues-of-the-new-yorker/
Jeff Wrangler:
FINALLY. I've got a New Yorker. The Feb. 22 issue arrived in today's mail.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 14, 2016, 05:29:43 pm ---
Meanwhile, here's a kind of amusing essay by someone who tried to read a year's worth of New Yorkers at once, duty articles and all. It becomes an entertaining and educational yet grueling slog.
The New Yorker feast I had planned for myself was quickly devolving into a hotdog eating contest.
http://lithub.com/a-bikini-a-toothbrush-and-44-issues-of-the-new-yorker/
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Haha, that was a good read. Who is Kathryn Schulz, anyway? I'll start paying more attention to the authors!
When I lived in Detroit for four years, I received many magazines because my husband was in control of a $20 million advertising account, and he couldn't spend any of it on broadcast. I had a goal to read a magazine every day. Then, I upped it to three per day. I had to increase to 10 magazines per day eventually. By the time I was finished breastfeeding my son, I had read thousands of magazines. There is a lot of easily digestible content in most magazines, but the New Yorker is different.
serious crayons:
I'm going through my pile of articles I ripped out to read before throwing the rest of the New Yorkers into recycling. So I'm just now reading Oliver Sacks' piece about Spalding Gray from last April. How did I miss this at the time? Fascinating and sad, especially now that both are gone.
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