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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
I read the new George Saunders story in the June 12 issue and found it haunting as his work usually is.
Jeff Wrangler:
Our Chuck would probably find the June 12 article about the Marvel Universe interesting.
Superheroes are all the same to me: Marvel, D.C., it's all one.
serious crayons:
A rare New Yorker typo?! This from a story in the May 29 issue about the host of a Netflix series showcasing Black cuisine.
"After a semester at the University of Oregon, Satterfield dropped out and enrolled in culinary school in Portland; Burch?s parents co-signed his student loan. Living in a cheap apartment building that turned out to be full of heroin addicts, he supplemented his classes with ?self-guided studies? in food and wine. He read every good book that he could find at Powell?s, took classes at the International Sommelier Guild, and talked his way into simultaneous jobs at exclusive venues. At the four-star Benson Hotel, he started as a room-service co?rdinator in a basement workspace, then rose to sommelier, holding daily tastings in the foyer."
Even on its own, the sentence doesn't make much sense. It doesn't define what constitutes "good" books, most people read books they consider good and Powell's probably carries far more good books than any individual could read (especially in the timeframe described here). It's also among examples of how he made "self-guided studies" of food and wine.
But G is next to F on the keyboard, and a sentence saying the guy "read every food book he could find at Powell's" makes much more sense.
This was about halfway through the story, which I wasn't finding all that fascinating, so I guess I will use my outrage over the typo as an excuse to stop reading the article and possibly recycle the whole magazine.
I do, however, recommend Rachel Aviv's story un that issue about author Alice Sebold mistaking the identity of her rapist, thus sending an innocent man to prison and including him in her memoir about the rape. I'd read about this when the mistake was first revealed, but the article went into much more detail that takes some of the blame off Sebold.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 25, 2023, 04:33:32 pm ---But G is next to F on the keyboard, and a sentence saying the guy "read every food book he could find at Powell's" makes much more sense.
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It does make more sense. I remember something struck me as odd about that sentence, but I didn't stop to try to figure it out.
--- Quote ---I do, however, recommend Rachel Aviv's story un that issue about author Alice Sebold mistaking the identity of her rapist, thus sending an innocent man to prison and including him in her memoir about the rape. I'd read about this when the mistake was first revealed, but the article went into much more detail that takes some of the blame off Sebold.
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U and I are next to each other on the keyboard, too. ...
Sorry. ...
But that was a good article.
And I'm still annoyed by TNY's use of capitalization in direct quotations.
Front-Ranger:
The June 26th issue was kind of blah until I got to the critics' section. I found the Kathryn Schultz article about heist stories interesting and it fed my theory about the growing interest in people being someone they're not. The bio of Sarah Jessica Parker just kept going on and on and on until I had to just stop reading it.
Oh, I take it back. The article about the tactical bra by Patricia Marx was entertaining and well-written. It would have made a good S & M!!
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