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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 17, 2020, 03:32:20 pm ---In the same issue, I'm reading "Betting the Farm" by Sam Knight about Joseph Fiennes's twin brother who manages a great estate in England according to permaculture principles (although the word is not mentioned in the article). It's very interesting to me but I don't know if anyone else would find it interesting.
Articles in my interest area are starting to crop (pun intended) up a lot now. Who would think TNY would run an article about composting? But that is what "Letter from Seoul" is about in the March 9 issue. Also of interest in that issue are "Exodus" about the German expatriots in Los Angeles and "#Winning" (as Jeff mentioned) about how social media was used to elect Trump. I also learned a lot from "The Leveller" a review of the work of Thomas Piketty, the French economist.
I'm also re-reading "The Bristlecones Speak" by Alex Ross in the January 20 issue. That's another one that you wouldn't expect to see in TNY.
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I liked "Betting the Farm" and "The Bristlecones Speak," but the Piketty piece bored me.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 02, 2020, 11:28:29 am ---I have now read every. Single. Article. in the March 23 issue, since it's the only one I brought with me to AZ. Go ahead, ask me a question about any article. I have practically memorized them!
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I haven't consumed the March 23 issue, but once you get done with your New Yorkers do you have an internet connection that could get you to other publications -- the Atlantic, Slate, New York magazine, the NYT and WashPo, stuff like that ...?
Front-Ranger:
Yes, I've gone online and read some of the latest issue of TNY, and I actually read the fiction by George Saunders (I like his work). I read certain articles in the Atlantic, NYT and WashPo when there is a link to something I want to read.
Friend asked me the other day if I knew how scientists determined the date that the volcano at Santorini, Italy, erupted, and I was able to answer, "yes, by the tree rings of the bristlecone pines." I was very impressed at myself. ;)
Jeff Wrangler:
Peter Hessler's report on his life in China during the Covid-19 pandemic is very interesting.
He sure gets around. I read his article on his experience in China with the Peace Corps, and I knew he was in Cairo for the Arab Spring. I thought he settled on the Western Slope of Colorado, but now he's back teaching English in a Chinese university.
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm not caught up in my magazines, but this morning I finished the March 30 issue. In the Briefly Noted column, there is a book I want to keep track of an I hope eventually read. The title is Yellow Bird, and it's a work of nonfiction about a real-life amateur sleuth who solved a mystery on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota in 2012. Since I enjoy the novels of Craig Johnson, Margaret Coel, and Tony Hillerman, I think I would enjoy this real-life detective story. When I was a kid I loved to read true-crime books, too.
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