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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
I renewed my subscription this morning.
Front-Ranger:
I wonder if they send different covers to different people.
serious crayons:
Found it. It's the July 9 and 16 issue.
It has a personal essay by David Sedaris about going to a shooting range, an profile by Ariel Levy, a vintage cartoon by Charles Addams and a critic at large by Nathan Heller about the concept of universal income.
For me, those would be the highlights, but of course YMMV.
Here's the Sedaris piece, which for me was/would be the first thing I turned to/would turn to.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/active-shooter
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 04, 2018, 08:03:42 pm ---I wonder if they send different covers to different people.
--- End quote ---
Too expensive to print different covers.
I remember the dog cover, because I remember thinking, "dog days of summer," but don't ask me which issue. It's way gone out with the recycling.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-furious-that-woodwards-book-is-written-at-seventh-grade-reading-level
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Trump Furious That Woodward’s Book
Is Written at Seventh-Grade Reading Level
By Andy Borowitz September 05, 2018 10:17 A.M.
Photograph by Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump obtained an advance copy of Bob Woodward’s new book Monday evening and was “furious” to discover that Woodward had written it at a seventh-grade reading level, a White House aide has confirmed.
The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Trump was convinced that Woodward wrote the book for seventh-grade readers to make its assertions impossible for Trump to refute.
“Trump was turning page after page, becoming increasingly angry at its gratuitous use of a seventh-grade vocabulary,” the aide said. “It was like it was written entirely in a secret code.”
At one point, Trump became so frustrated trying to decipher the word “imbecilic” that he hurled the book across the room.
“Book bad!” he reportedly shouted.
According to the aide, Trump’s daughter Ivanka is dreading that she will be called upon to read the Woodward book aloud to her father, as he has demanded she do with books by James Comey and Omarosa Manigault Newman.
“In the past, Ivanka has begged off by saying she was too busy running her company, but she can’t do that anymore,” the aide said.
Andy Borowitz is the New York Times best-selling author of “The 50 Funniest American Writers,” and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news, for The New Yorker newyorker.com.
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