In the New Yorker...

[serious crayons]

I have almost nothing checked to read in the Fiction Issue (June , but I did read the article about the book about the astrologer Linda Goodman.

I think that's correct. Then there was Hints from Heloise. And of course Miss Manners, though she didn't come until later.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Maybe there's more in the fiction issue anyway. ... 

I've read Louis Menand on "Lady Chatterley's Lover," and I want to read Peter Hessler. I may read the article about the president of FIFA because some matches are being played here in Philadelphia.

(OT, but the baseball All-Star Game will be played here, too.)

I might read Jonathan Franzen, too.

[serious crayons]

I've read Louis Menand on "Lady Chatterley's Lover,"

I've liked Louis Menand's writing since the early '90s, although I think back then he might have been writing for Harper's. In any case, I lived in NYC for the '93-'94 school year, and at one point I impulsively looked up his name in the phone book (a resource that existed back then), and he was right there! I didn't call him or go stalk his house or anything and I'm sure there were plenty of other famous names in the phone book, but I was pretty startled to see someone I considered famous living like a regular person. Now, of course, even regular people are hard to look up.

I haven't seen the Franzen but I bet it's worth reading.

[Front-Ranger]

I haven't seen the Franzen but I bet it's worth reading.

I was disappointed in it. It was set in Montana and read like that other author from Montana's work. Or like DFW. But your mileage may vary.