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In the New Yorker...
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--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 16, 2023, 09:11:48 pm ---Heard a rumor today that the holiday issue is 1,000 pages long! :o
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Is that possible? That's approximately the length of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, which is several inches thick!
serious crayons:
Oh, and of course a hardcover Gone With the Wind is 1,037 pages.
Front-Ranger:
I've decided this must be a kind of a joke or some way to show how urban legends spread.
Front-Ranger:
The latest issue arrived yesterday and was the usual length. Very colorful. I'm not a big fan of graphic novels so the piece on Patricia Highsmith merely hurt my eyes.
Front-Ranger:
The January 1&8 issue has several good articles. Two of them, "The Ventriloquist" and "Genghis the Good" are not about what their titles are.
"The Ventriloquist" is about the screenwriter turned director Scott Frank. Not a household name but I guarantee you've seen his work. He is most famous as a script doctor, adding depth and assuring that the audience will engage with the characters. I love his approach of putting characters before plot and making the plot work in service of the characters. He is very adept at imparting the knowledge audiences need without narratives such as can be included in novels.
Now he's teamed up with Anya Taylor-Joy on the brilliant Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit." And, yes, Heath Ledger is mentioned.
"Genghis the Good" Starts out being about Pope Francis's trip to Mongolia. But it's really about the growing field of global history, a discipline that looks at history as a whole and how populations moved and affected others throughout the world, ignoring political borders. I've read several new books on the subject and find it very eye-opening.
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