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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 08, 2017, 10:19:34 pm ---Oh good. I haven't read it yet, but from the headline I feared it was going to be sad.
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Well, there is a little bit of melancholy in it, but mostly I found it very funny.
Hmm. Owning a summer home in Nova Scotia and being able to spend the summer there? Must be a sweet life.
--- Quote ---I suppose I've already bragged about meeting Calvin Trillin. Well, not quite "meeting," but sitting a few feet away at a conference table where he regaled people at my newspaper with tales. This was a few years ago -- he stopped by the paper when he was in town for some other event.
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I don't recall you mentioning it, but, how cool!
serious crayons:
Yeah, I remember he told one anecdote about John McPhee hiding his typewritten manuscripts in the ceiling every night to keep them safe. I guess the prospect of losing days' or weeks' of work would have been pretty scary in those days before even Xerox machines.
Jeff Wrangler:
Am I going to be scared if I read Evan Osnos in the September 18 issue? ???
We may all have to follow John Lanchester's advice and go back to living as hunter-gatherers--if any of us are left once Trump and the North Koreans get done with us. :(
Front-Ranger:
Terry Gross was interviewing him today and, yes, it was scary. I spent a lot of time on the road today so I heard the interview several times.
Jeff Wrangler:
Maybe I should be posting this somewhere else, such as on my own blog, but I love that in his article on Hillary Clinton (Sept. 25), David Remnick bluntly calls the incumbent President "the biggest liar in the history of Presidential politics" (p. 65).
I think if David Remnick didn't exist, we'd have to invent him.
That might make a good Jeopardy! question some day.
"I'll take Presidential Politics for two hundred, Alex."
A: The biggest liar in the history of Presidential politics.
Q: "Who is ..."
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