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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 16, 2009, 09:08:34 pm ---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.
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I used to look at all the cartoons, nowadays only if my eye falls on them. And I used to read the fiction more religiously. Now it has a lot to do with what the fiction looks like when I glance at it. Not much dialogue, long dense paragraphs? Forget it. Main character referred to by his last name? Probably not.
But if it's dialogue-heavy and accessible and easy-reading (yeah, I've gotten lazy), I do often find fiction I like by writers I've never heard of before. Last year, I not only read the story but was moved to buy (in hardcover!) and read the whole book: The Ms. Hempel Chronicles, by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum.
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 16, 2009, 09:15:04 pm ---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.
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I've read a bunch of things about that new biography, but based on the comments here I will also check out the New Yorker one.
--- Quote ---I stick with a Bloody Mary, if anyone is wonderin'. ... ;)
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That would be my preferred post-church drink, myself.
Jeff Wrangler:
Here's a factoid that I picked up from The New Yorker that I find interesting. It's from the article on Rwanda in the May 4 issue; I started reading the article at lunchtime today. Anyway, the factoid is, in the city of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, plastic bags are outlawed to keep down litter and protect the environment. :D
Front-Ranger:
A New Yorker article club would be fun!! I think I still have the Gladwell article on David/Goliath around here somewhere.
I often don't read the fiction ennimore (of course, I read ENNITHING by AP) but I highly reccamend the new story by Salmon Rushdie. For one thing, it is short. Another, the first paragraph is a real grabber. You hardly never find that ennimore...
Front-Ranger:
I loved everything in the previous issue, but in today's issue I am only interested in reading about Victor Fleming and the Guggenheim. Strange whims I have about NY Magazines!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 20, 2009, 08:24:42 pm ---I loved everything in the previous issue, but in today's issue I am only interested in reading about Victor Fleming and the Guggenheim. Strange whims I have about NY Magazines!
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I've got three New Yorkers piled up on the dining room table, and one in my backpack. ::) I read the Victor Fleming article over dinner this evening. :)
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