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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 08, 2019, 10:29:39 am ---As I recall, the issue was mainly about 9-11 and won awards. I think I still have it somewhere.
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Do you still have another famous issue on your bedside table?
I do remember that 9/11 cover. For some reason, I don't remember much of the contents.
The other really good post-9/11 issue, believe it or not, was The Onion. It was genuinely funny, and hit just the right tone so it didn't seem "too soon." My favorite line, quoting some random man on the street, was: "If the world were going to suddenly turn into a movie without warning, I wish it would have been one of those boring, talky Merchant-Ivory ones instead. I hate those movies, but I sure wish we were living in one right now."
Check out the front page if you didn't see/don't remember it. Every headline is funny while also being (IMO) inoffensive.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/cutline/remembering-onion-9-11-issue-everyone-thought-last-162024809.html
Front-Ranger:
I'll have to look that up; thanks for the link. Yes, that other famous issue is still there, even though I have a different bedside table!
Front-Ranger:
I've been catching up on my issues that were put aside during the summer. In the July 8-15 issue, I read the article about Hunter Biden. It was very comprehensive and apparently Hunter cooperated and was interviewed several times for it. It was heartbreaking to see how hard he tried and failed to break his addictions. One hopes for him going forward, but the future looks bleak.
serious crayons:
The Oct. 28 issue arrived yesterday. The articles looked kind of "Ehhh, maybe ..." I started reading a profile of the actor Adam Driver because that seemed easy, at least, not a daunting "duty" article. I find him mildly interesting as an actor, and he's been in a lot of movies in the past few years.
But I got about three pages into it and realized the profile was nine pages long. It was like the long-ago nine-page article I once started reading on a grocery store. Driver has some mildly interesting characteristics, like pretty much all people do, but he wasn't particularly fascinating. I got to the part where the piece was offering moment-by-moment coverage of Driver preparing to go onstage. He gets his hair wet, then he puts gel in it, then he blowdries it, then he brushes his teeth because he has to kiss an actress onstage, then he ...
Well, I may never know whether he put his shoes on next, or a jacket or what. I bailed. If there's anything especially interesting about Adam Driver to warrant a nine-page piece, they sure buried the lede.
Meanwhile, Thomas Edison merited four pages. (Admittedly, the Edison piece is a book review/essay as opposed to a full-blown profile.)
Front-Ranger:
I concur about the Adam Driver article. Did you get far enough to figure out why they call him "the original man"? IMO, the best thing about the article is the portrait of him. Such an interesting face! I liked "The avocado Whisperer" so far. The Shouts & Murmurs piece was, as usual, too nuanced for my taste.
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