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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
:laugh:
This is starting to look like material for a "Shouts & Murmurs" column. Keep it up!
Jeff Wrangler:
Well, now I'm six weeks behind.
I have the impression that this fall, there have been more articles per issue that I really want to read, and this is a part of why I've fallen so far behind.
Somehow I seem to have skipped over Nov. 16, and now I'm almost done with Nov. 23. I'm reading the (so far exciting) article on the clandestine movement to overthrow Kim Jong Un in North Korea.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 29, 2020, 12:39:07 pm --- I'm reading the (so far exciting) article on the clandestine movement to overthrow Kim Jong Un in North Korea.
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Wow, I would dismiss that as a "duty article"! Very impressive, and I'm glad you're enjoying it.
I tend to dismiss most articles about other countries as duty, especially if they're about global politics as opposed to, say, a famous artist. Long ago I was so overwhelmed with reading that I had to cut out something, so I cut out all global politics stories. As a result, unfortunately, 9/11 took me entirely by surprise. Immediately afterward, I read everything I could to catch up to speed.
Since then, though, I've slipped a bit into my old ways. :-\
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 29, 2020, 01:05:23 pm ---Since then, though, I've slipped a bit into my old ways. :-\
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I have no idea when, if ever, I'm going to catch up. I still don't understand how I've fallen so far behind. I'm skipping the fiction, but then I almost never read that anyway.
I jumped ahead to read Adam Gopnik on the Golden Age of animation (Dec. 28, the Cartoon Issue) because it just happens that this Saturday, MeTV will begin running three hours of cartoons on Saturday mornings.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 29, 2020, 06:37:29 pm ---If I'm skipping the fiction, but then I almost never read that anyway.
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Me neither. Although when I first subscribed in my 20s, that was the main thing I did read. (I attempted to write arty short stories back then.) Now I never read it unless the author is some recognizable name like George Saunders. If, when paging though it, it looks like it's mostly short paragraphs and dialogue, I might go to the beginning and give it up to 10 paragraphs to capture my attention. If the protagonist is referred to by his last name (although some protagonists are women, I've never seen one referred to by her last name), I almost immediately know it's not for me.
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