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In the New Yorker...
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:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 04, 2020, 06:53:32 pm ---I'm not in the mood for dystopian apocalyptic fiction these days, thank you.
--- End quote ---
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 :o 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.
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