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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 06, 2020, 12:29:02 am ---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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Good thing he didn't make a typo in the word all journalists fear: public.
Pretty good, though, that when there is a typo it stands out because it almost never happens.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 04, 2020, 06:53:32 pm ---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.
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I finally read this and LOVED IT. It might be my favorite George Saunders story. It features a bizarre scenario -- set, as his stories so often are, in a strange future re-enactment attraction (the first story I ever read of his, decades ago, "CivilWarland in Bad Decline," was like that). There's a narrator who's sincere and naive and well meaning, who says offhand things he considers normal but are ironic because the reader can see them as horrifying. Narration and dialogue voices like modern slang on steroids.
But as the story unfolded, I gradually saw what he was doing and was really impressed. It's about a phenomenon I've only started to think about in fairly recent years. It's not particularly related to modern politics. Then comes a surprise ending that suddenly ties everything together in an enormous real-world analogy (again, nothing to do with Trump, etc.).
It's not cheery if you're really bummed out about current events, but at least it has nothing to do with current events.
Front-Ranger:
I'm glad you liked it. I kept thinking that might be us someday.
I would like to read Lincoln in the Bardo. Has anyone here read it? Is it as out there as his short fiction?
Jeff Wrangler:
I still can't fathom how I came to be five issues behind. Tonight I read the article on Dolly Parton in the October 19 issue.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 14, 2020, 09:14:48 pm ---I still can't fathom how I came to be five issues behind. Tonight I read the article on Dolly Parton in the October 19 issue.
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Now it's the article about Andrew Cuomo.
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