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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
Good point. “The Lottery” is a classic, but Lee is right, people read it in high school. Maybe they wanted to say “Nah, nah! We first published this story everybody reads in high school!” That sounds like something David Remnick would do.
If they wanted to show off, they could have published “Hiroshima” — or maybe excerpts, since I believe the original took up the whole magazine.
Jeff Wrangler:
It occurred to me to wonder if they were going for a theme. (What do Martin Luther King, Toni Morrison, Larry Kramer, Shirley Jackson, and Cesar Chavez have in common? They're all dead. [Of course, Margaret Fuller is, too, but she's been dead since 1850.]) But Alicia Garza and James Hansen don't fit that pattern, so that can't be it.
serious crayons:
Plus, the first five are household words in my household, whereas the last two are not.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 11, 2020, 11:38:06 am ---Plus, the first five are household words in my household, whereas the last two are not.
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Same here. (I looked them up to make sure they aren't dead, too.)
Jeff Wrangler:
The very end of the article about the Army Corps of Engineers (Aug. 3 & 10) made me cry.
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