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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
IF you have a subscription, you can access the entire New Yorker archives on their website (yes, going back to the 20s or whenever, I think, though I've never done it). So if you're at all curious about the two missing editions, you can read them there.
Front-Ranger:
There was a review of frequent New Yorker fiction writer George Saunders' new book, his first full-length novel, in this week's Time Magazine. It's called Lincoln in the Bardo. I don't think the title makes the book sound very appealing, but the review warmed me up to it. Even more interesting was Saunders' comments on the way he writes, his inspiration for the book, and his use of "alternative realities" for want of a better phrase.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 20, 2017, 12:32:19 pm ---There was a review of frequent New Yorker fiction writer George Saunders' new book, his first full-length novel, in this week's Time Magazine. It's called Lincoln in the Bardo. I don't think the title makes the book sound very appealing, but the review warmed me up to it. Even more interesting was Saunders' comments on the way he writes, his inspiration for the book, and his use of "alternative realities" for want of a better phrase.
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I've been looking forward to this book, too, but also didn't like the title. I thought Bardo must be some physical place in Washington D.C. where they keep bodes for burial or something like that (the grief-stricken Lincoln is visiting his recently deceased son). Instead, it turns out that "bardo" is like a Buddhist version of limbo or Purgatory. The NYT review, by Coleson Whitehead -- author of the excellent "Underground Railroad" and no slouch at alternative realities himself -- made it sound really interesting.
Jeff Wrangler:
Abraham Lincoln?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 21, 2017, 12:53:52 pm ---Abraham Lincoln?
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Yes. When people refer casually to "Lincoln" -- especially as the subject of a book reviewed in Time and the NYT -- they don't usually mean Andrew Lincoln, star of AMC's The Walking Dead.
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