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Front-Ranger:
I went ahead to that article. So poignant, especially the drawing. Some of the skeletons reached out to each other. I'm definitely going to get the book. Thank you for pointing that out.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 16, 2021, 07:53:13 pm ---I went ahead to that article. So poignant, especially the drawing. Some of the skeletons reached out to each other. I'm definitely going to get the book. Thank you for pointing that out.
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It really got to me that some of the skeletons were holding hands.
It's a really good book. I hope you enjoy it. I hadn't read it in 30 years or more, so reading it again was like reading it for the first time. I've ordered a hardback copy from Betterworld Books to replace my old paperback copy.
serious crayons:
Just checking in on my phone so I have more to say about this topic (not especially informed, just interested) but right now I wanted to note that I finally finished the Midnight Cowboy piece and noticed a weird thing. They made a common word — pretty sure it was underway but I don’t have it front of me — into two words. One of TNY’s weird quirks, or faulty editing? The line break came between them with no hyphen.
Jeff Wrangler:
I finished the John McPhee (April 19) over lunch. He must have published something about his experiences aboard the ship Stella Lykes in TNY, because the ship's name sounds familiar.
Jeff Wrangler:
I am enjoying Lauren Collins on French le tacos (looks plural but actually singular) (April 19).
I'm getting the feeling that The New Yorker has a history of making the French look a little silly. I think we've seen this in other writers, and I think it goes all the way back to James Thurber. The collection My World--and Welcome To It contains an entire section of pieces that Thurber wrote in France in 1937 and 1938. The Acknowledgments at the beginning of the book notes that most of the stories were first published in TNY.
What has TNY got against France? ???
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