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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
Well, I just read Lauren Collins' article on Melania Trump in the May 9 issue. I've already read the article about the Nazis' stolen treasure hidden in Poland, and Hilton Als' review of Long Day's Journey Into Night. I don't know that there's anything else in this issue that interests me. Is there anything else in the issue I should read?
Front-Ranger:
I enjoyed the article "Hive Mind" on Samantha Bee by Emily Nussbaum on page 72.
Jeff Wrangler:
I wasn't going to read the Billy Eichner article (May 23). I'd heard of him, had a vague and, it turns out, close but not quite accurate idea of what he did in Billy on the Street, and the article subtitle on the TOC page, "Billy Eichner's assaultive comedy," was not encouraging, but then I was turning the page and my eye caught the phrase, "Eichner knew he was gay," and I thought, Oh, shit, I guess I should read this. Sense of tribal solidarity and duty, I guess. So I read it, but it could be skipped with no loss.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 27, 2016, 12:43:06 pm ---I wasn't going to read the Billy Eichner article (May 23). I'd heard of him, had a vague and, it turns out, close but not quite accurate idea of what he did in Billy on the Street, and the article subtitle on the TOC page, "Billy Eichner's assaultive comedy," was not encouraging, but then I was turning the page and my eye caught the phrase, "Eichner knew he was gay," and I thought, Oh, shit, I guess I should read this. Sense of tribal solidarity and duty, I guess. So I read it, but it could be skipped with no loss.
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I may skip the article, but I've seen Billy Eichner a few times (he was a regular on Parks and Recreation in the last season or two, and I've seen snippets of Street) and he's pretty funny.
serious crayons:
The New Yorker has been the target of outrage lately, which seems rare. First there was a huge outcry over a poem about Chinese food by Calvin Trillin that was supposed to be light Trillinesque satire of foodies but among Asian Americans was widely seen as racist. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/04/have-they-run-out-of-provinces-yet-by-calvin-trillin
Now today, there's this harsh takedown of an online piece about transgender bathrooms. It's a little confusing since I didn't read the original article and I'm not up on the latest in transgender bathroom law. But the author considers the piece deeply flawed in a logical and legal way as well as transphobic. http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/05/27/jeannie_suk_s_newyorker_com_article_was_sloppy_and_inaccurate.html
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