In the New Yorker...

[Jeff Wrangler]

Powerful, maybe.  Uncontrollable, that's debatable.

If you can't control the drive, you can control your actions.

The current crisis is making people do weird things, at least as I understand.

I wonder if he drinks?

[Jeff Wrangler]

The October 26th issue arrived today. I can't believe I'm, like, a month behind in reading them.

[Front-Ranger]

If you can't control the drive, you can control your actions.

The current crisis is making people do weird things, at least as I understand.

I wonder if he drinks?

I was going to say, "he's a reporter, isn't he?" but that's stereotyping. I was also going to say, "Is the bear catholic?" 

[Jeff Wrangler]

I read the Jane Austen article (Oct. 5). I guess only the Bible has had more things written about it than Jane Austen.

[Front-Ranger]

I thought Sherlock Holmes was second to the Bible, but I may be wrong.

[serious crayons]

Well, both Jane and Sherlock have a pretty broad fan base, with societies and meetings and stuff like that.

[Front-Ranger]

I read the George Saunders fiction "Ghoul" in the latest issue. Usually, I like his work but I'm not in the mood for dystopian apocalyptic fiction these days, thank you.

[serious crayons]

I'm not in the mood for dystopian apocalyptic fiction these days, thank you.

And if you were, just pick up any newspaper! 

I usually love GS. What I like about GS's DAF is that his he scenarios are so bizarre in their own individual ways that I can momentarily escape the bizarre scenarios of RL (again, I haven't read Ghoul, so that one may be different). And yet they're so eerily familiar in dialogue and social customs and so on! He takes RL and twists it just a bit.

I'll read it and report back.

[Front-Ranger]

Yes, I think this one would fit in that category. Very apt description!

[Jeff Wrangler]

Seriously, I can't believe I've fallen a month behind in my magazines. The political articles will all be moot in a day or two.

Meanwhile, I'm sure I found a typo    in Adam Gopnik's short article on James Beard (Oct. 12). On page 69 there is a statement that Beard's cookbook American Cookery "'is a kind of secret record of twentieth-century gay migration to cities from across the county and beyond its shores.'"

If they just crossed the county, they didn't go very far.