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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 15, 2012, 02:54:22 pm ---As usual I have three issues "going" at once. :)
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Only three? I've got some from last summer in my stack.
Jeff Wrangler:
Over lunch today I finished "The Plagiarist's Tale." I have to admit I'm somewhat in awe of what this person did. Someone quoted in the article mentioned the amount of work involved, and it does seem to me that stealing a whole bunch of text from a whole bunch of different authors and stitching it all together to make a coherent tale is kind of, well, awe-inspiring.
Not that I'm condoning it, because I'm not.
I've now started the face transplant story.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 21, 2012, 02:07:50 pm ---I've now started the face transplant story.
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It's a longy. I'm only partway through it, but it's interesting -- an examination of the history and difficulties involved in transplants in general and face transplants in particular.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 21, 2012, 04:04:43 pm ---It's a longy. I'm only partway through it, but it's interesting -- an examination of the history and difficulties involved in transplants in general and face transplants in particular.
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Yeah, that's sorta why I left it for last. I tend to read the short articles--pieces that can be completed in one or two lunches or dinners--first, and then read the long stuff.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 21, 2012, 04:18:16 pm ---Yeah, that's sorta why I left it for last. I tend to read the short articles--pieces that can be completed in one or two lunches or dinners--first, and then read the long stuff.
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Me too, sort of. I start with the back page (if I remember to), then go to the "Shouts and Murmurs" and "Current Cinema," then to anyone whose byline is an immediate must-read -- Sedaris, Gladwell, Levy, Gawande, Lepore, etc. -- then I turn to to either the shortest or the most accessible piece (like, some light thing about American culture would come before reportage about fighting in Afghanistan -- what can I say? I'm a typical American airhead). If nothing jumps out, it goes onto The Stack.
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