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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
There are actually quite a few international subscribers. But the subscription price is $112 for a year...kind of expensive!! Yes, they should definitely have online subscriptions, at least for international readers!
Continuing in the Swedish theme...I read the long article about IKEA on Monday evening and then went to the new store in South Denver yesterday! There was just one thing I wanted to get. A set of wire cookie cooling racks. But...would you believe they didn't have any?? Amazing!
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 23, 2011, 08:37:57 pm ---... the Sept. 26 issue to read Peter Hessler's piece about the man who runs the drug store in Nucla, Colorado. I first got out my atlas to see exactly where Nucla is.
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Just learned that Hessler received a MacArthur "genius" grant:
http://www.cpr.org/article/Ridgway_Writer_Wins_Genius_Grant
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm finally more-or-less finished with that issue. Over lunch today I read the "bullet-proof couture" article. ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
Over dessert this evening I finished Atul Gawande's article about coaching. I love his writing.
If I ever need a thyroid operation, I wish I could go to Boston and have him do it!
Front-Ranger:
He was rather self disparaging, but it was an interesting article.
I'm in the middle of the Taylor Swift bio now. 8)
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