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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 29, 2020, 11:46:18 am ---I generally look at stories like that and think, "Oh, this looks really important" and then never get back to it.
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That happens to me regularly, too, though not with the Filkins-Anderson--type articles.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 29, 2020, 12:15:17 pm ---That happens to me regularly, too, though not with the Filkins-Anderson--type articles.
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I'll keep that in mind and try one sometime. I must have read a Jon Lee Anderson story or two at some point.
In other news, I finally finished an article in an old issue about the scientific difficulty of finding virus treatments. That was really informative about all the challenges involved. I didn't even know what a virus was, exactly, and it helps you understand things like that.
Now I'm reading the Hilton Als piece about his childhood in the latest issue. It's really good too, though of course in a different way. It's probably the best thing I've read since George Floyd died about what it feels like to be black in America, especially growing up in poor neighborhoods as he did. It goes way deeper than other things I've seen.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 30, 2020, 09:22:42 am ---Now I'm reading the Hilton Als piece about his childhood in the latest issue. It's really good too, though of course in a different way. It's probably the best thing I've read since George Floyd died about what it feels like to be black in America, especially growing up in poor neighborhoods as he did. It goes way deeper than other things I've seen.
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You mean "Homecoming" (June 29)?
Jeff Wrangler:
I've been forgetting that I wanted to mention that I love that note about NewYorker.com at the end of Emma Cline's story:
"Emma Cline on fictionalizing odious men."
I like that word odious. Kind of onomatopoetic, don't you think?
And I was amused by Doreen St. Felix's comment in her article about streaming services: "We've invented cable."
Jeff Wrangler:
I never read the restaurant column, but the one in the June 22 issue caught my eye. I was amused by the quotation, "Ham held the same rating as the basic black dress. If you had a ham in the meat house, any situation could be faced."
It reminded me of a friend of mine from long ago. He once said to me that as soon as someone died, his partner baked a ham.
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