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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 26, 2023, 01:14:33 pm ---I should have said "circulation" instead of "people". Would that include library readers, and those in the retirement homes I take my old issues to?
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I think some magazines keep track of both copies sold and estimated actual audience.
Jeff Wrangler:
If you didn't read it, I recommend going back to March 20 and reading Elizabeth Kolbert on caterpillars. I'm enjoying it now. It's a fun read so far. :)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 01, 2023, 08:46:19 pm ---If you didn't read it, I recommend going back to March 20 and reading Elizabeth Kolbert on caterpillars. I'm enjoying it now. It's a fun read so far. :)
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OK, I kind of take that back. The early part is fun, but the closer you get to the end, the darker and gloomier it gets. :(
serious crayons:
She has one in the new issue that I haven't started yet but looks interesting, called "How animals use deception."
Front-Ranger:
March 20 was quite the issue. We've already discussed Jill Lepore's "Pay Dirt" and the reviews are interesting. A very long article that I nevertheless enjoyed was "Magic Realism" by D. T. Max about a novelist named H. G. Carillo who was African-American from Detroit but created a new identity for himself as a Cuban. The fiction was good: "False Star" by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain. There was even a funny passage in the S&M "How to Tell If You're in a TV Show" by Emma Rathbone. Everyone and everything seemed to be represented: women, seeds, Gay authors, Indigenous people, Climate Change, caterpillars. Oh I forgot "Abolish the Poor" by Margaret Talbot. Also good. I didn't realize that perks of home ownership play a big role in keeping the well-off rich and the poor poor. Homeowners got $193 billion in 2020. I think I'm going to get at least one of the books she reviews.
Jeff, I wondered what you thought of the ad for Philadelphia that said "Betsy was the real badass."
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