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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
How odd is this? ??? There is almost nothing in the April 26 & May 3 issue that interests me. I do, however, recommend Margaret Talbot on home ec. I found that article entertaining. :) I will be reading the fiction piece because it's Margaret Atwood.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 25, 2021, 08:25:09 pm ---How odd is this? ??? There is almost nothing in the April 26 & May 3 issue that interests me. I do, however, recommend Margaret Talbot on home ec. I found that article entertaining. :) I will be reading the fiction piece because it's Margaret Atwood.
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I see a handful that might be OK, so I'll give them a chance but possibly not finish them. Same here on the Atwoord story.
Here's some news, if you haven't already heard: The reason Louis Menand has published a couple of 1960s-related things lately ("Midnight Cowboy" and an article about '60s radicals, e.g. Tom Hayden) is that he has a new book out covering those kinds of topics. Sounds like the book covers the Cold War years but is about cultural changes (rather than just geopolitics). I might read that!
[A coupled of minutes later] Uh-oh -- it's 700 pages! I haven't read the reviews thoroughly. If it sounds like something one could skip around in I'd be more likely to read it than a book that has to be read straight through from beginning to end. The arts and culture portions would interest me more than geopolitics of the Cold War itself. ... Or maybe not, you never know.
Apparently he goes by "Luke," so I'll start calling him that, as if 30 years ago I had actually called him and we met for coffee and have been friends ever since.
I did actually call and talk to Pete Hamill while I was in NYC -- friend of a friend -- he was very nice and gave me some advice for freelancing there. When I called him, he happened to be on the cover of that month's issue of Poets & Writers,. But we didn't get coffee and I haven't talked to him since.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 26, 2021, 10:59:40 am ---Here's some news, if you haven't already heard: The reason Louis Menand has published a couple of 1960s-related things lately ("Midnight Cowboy" and an article about '60s radicals, e.g. Tom Hayden) is that he has a new book out covering those kinds of topics. Sounds like the book covers the Cold War years but is about cultural changes (rather than just geopolitics). I might read that!
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Reminds me that I've noticed over the years that lots of articles in TNY are drawn from books written by the article's author. Lately I've been playing a game with myself, trying to spot the articles that I think will be a part of somebody's book. ;D
--- Quote ---[A coupled of minutes later] Uh-oh -- it's 700 pages!
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Another reminder of an experience I once had with a book when I was still pretty young--high school age maybe, I'm not sure anymore. Terrible that right now I can't remember the title or the author, but it was a history of the U.S. in the 20th century--or so much of it that had passed by at least the early 1960s. The book was enormous in hardback, something like two inches or more thick. I remember it as well written, and I enjoyed it, and then I got to the Kennedy years, and I stopped stock-still. Somehow I could not get myself push on any further to read the Kennedy portion. I never finished the book.
If I were named Louis, I'd want to go by Luke, too.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 26, 2021, 11:26:57 am ---Reminds me that I've noticed over the years that lots of articles in TNY are drawn from books written by the article's author. Lately I've been playing a game with myself, trying to spot the articles that I think will be a part of somebody's book. ;D
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Yeah, I actually suspected it about the Menand articles. Why, out of the blue, write about Midnight Cowboy unless it was connected to something larger?
--- Quote ---Another reminder of an experience I once had with a book when I was still pretty young--high school age maybe, I'm not sure anymore. Terrible that right now I can't remember the title or the author, but it was a history of the U.S. in the 20th century--or so much of it that had passed by at least the early 1960s. The book was enormous in hardback, something like two inches or more thick. I remember it as well written, and I enjoyed it, and then I got to the Kennedy years, and I stopped stock-still. Somehow I could not get myself push on any further to read the Kennedy portion. I never finished the book.
If I were named Louis, I'd want to by by Luke, too.
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Why couldn't you go through the Kennedy portion? Too depressing because you can remember it?
As for Louis, I would prefer Luke, too. With Louis, I never know how you're supposed to pronounce it. Like, why is Louis prounced Loo-ee when it's Louis CK or Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but then it's Robert Loo-is Stevenson?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 26, 2021, 08:56:55 pm ---Why couldn't you go through the Kennedy portion? Too depressing because you can remember it?
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To this day I have no idea. I just couldn't go any further in the book. I wish I could remember the title and the author. It was a good book.
--- Quote ---As for Louis, I would prefer Luke, too. With Louis, I never know how you're supposed to pronounce it. Like, why is Louis prounced Loo-ee when it's Louis CK or Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but then it's Robert Loo-is Stevenson?
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I have in my library an old, old, edition of The History of England from the Accession of James II (it's five volumes!), by Thomas Babington Macaulay, who was an important English historian in the 19th century; he's probably mostly forgotten today, maybe even in England. James II became king in 1685. The contemporaneous king of France was Louis XIV. Macaulay calls him "Lewis."
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