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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
It's in the latest issue--October 14.
Jeff Wrangler:
Thanks. I haven't received that one yet.
Front-Ranger:
I dispatched the Oct. 14th issue rather quickly so I went back and picked up the Oct. 7 issue. There is good news buried in the article on LA food and wellness culture if you are not a fan of Hannah Goldfield. She asides that she has moved there! Hopefully that means she won't be writing as much in the magazine. I find her writing irritating; she inserts herself overmuch in the articles. Her sentences are convoluted and over-decorated with lots of punctuation (or could this be an over-zealous editor's work?).
Her research on the history of wellness eating in LA has glaring gaps...she doesn't mention Trader Joe's, Baba Ram Dass or Richard Simmons. She leans heavily on Erewhon but it was an East Coast thing.
Other questions from the article: what's with the dissing of seed oils all of a sudden? Why are writers using the word vibrant so much? Or the word eschew?
Front-Ranger:
The new issue has a somewhat desperate tone to it. I found a respite in the article on bird communication.
Front-Ranger:
"Pecking Order" has that word that Sonja used, onomatopoetic, to classify bird sounds into tweets, chirrups, rreeyous, seeewssooos, and dabs. There are also songs. I loved the part about how the mother bird sings to the eggs, teaching them a unique begging call that they use upon hatching. Humans also do this. The article mentions that French babies' cries are distinct from German babies' cries.
Even more amazing, the parents' songs are learned by the chicks so that when they grow up and look for a mate, they can tell birds of the same species apart from family members.
I'm now about to read "Prison Diaries" the memoirs of Alexei Navalny. I hope it will help me make sense of the tragic loss.
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