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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
Anything that doesn't get read by me in the week that I get my New Yorker probably won't be read by me ever. Although I do keep a stack of NY'ers by the sink in my bathroom and flip thru them while I curl my hair. :P
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 16, 2009, 07:18:03 pm ---Anything that doesn't get read by me in the week that I get my New Yorker probably won't be read by me ever. Although I do keep a stack of NY'ers by the sink in my bathroom and flip thru them while I curl my hair. :P
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Did Annie Proulx's story, "Tits-Up in a Ditch," curl it for you? ;D
serious crayons:
How's this for an idea? We do a New Yorker "article club." My old book club tried this when people kept not reading the books. We could start right now, with the Malcolm Gladwell piece "How David Beats Goliath" in the May 11 issue (my selfishly pick, since I just started reading it) or the Helen Gurley Brown profile, since two people have already read it.
Not a big deal, and no pressure. But if you're interested, read the article(s) and then return here to discuss.
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 16, 2009, 09:03:31 pm ---Did Annie Proulx's story, "Tits-Up in a Ditch," curl it for you? ;D
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:laugh:
That took me a minute to decipher, but once I got it I LOLed.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 16, 2009, 06:15:56 pm ---Then the magazine gets cast into a pile where it sits for months.
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I pass my magazines on to a coworker. She's glad to get them, however out of date they are. I keep the occasional issue, like the two last year that had Annie Proulx stories in them. I look at all the cartoons, but I almost never read the "Shouts and Murmurs," or the short fiction, unless I recognize the author's name.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 16, 2009, 09:05:29 pm ---the Helen Gurley Brown profile, since two people have already read it.
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Actually I guess I was a little misleading to call it a profile. The article is one of those New Yorker peculiarities, a combination review of a new biography of her and a profile of her.
I was first aware of HGB when she would be a guest on Merv Griffin's talk show, when I was still a kid. I always think of her when some of my gay male buddies from church order Cosmopolitans at Sunday brunch. ... ::)
I stick with a Bloody Mary, if anyone is wonderin'. ... ;)
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