This is a pet peeve of mine! I read the New Yorker to get the big picture and I don’t want narrowly focused issues. I have the Food issue, the Fashion issue and now the Art and Architecture issue sitting around. They have all come out in the last two months and I haven’t even [...]
Archive for October, 2005
The New Yorker – specialty issues
Posted in The New Yorker on October 24, 2005 | 2 Comments »
The latest Michael Connelly
Posted in books on October 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I spent two days reading “The Closers”: the latest book by Michael Connelly. While the writing isn’t the best, he does a consistently great job with his characters and setting. After reading this series of books, I feel like I know Los Angeles intimately. The character of Harry Bosch seems to expand a bit with [...]
Test of a good short story
Posted in The New Yorker on October 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s face it: they’re short. They don’t have the luxury of a novel which, if done well, creates a whole world for the reader to inhabit. So, my informal test of a short story is when something from it stays with you, it leaves a bit of itself behind; rather than being consumed and forgotten, [...]
New Yorker Fiction – 8/1/05
Posted in The New Yorker on October 9, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
George Saunders does it again with another incredible, out-of-the-box short story entitled “Commcomm”. As always, it takes the reader some time to get oriented in the world Suanders conjures up, usually some kind of futuristic dystopia where ordinary people struggle to find value and meaning or even a foothold in reality. Like “Sea Oak”, the [...]
Required Reading! (New Yorker (8/29/05)
Posted in The New Yorker on October 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The article entitled “The Moral-Hazard Myth” by Malcolm Gladwell should be required reading for everyone, because it exposes policies that are being put in place that will have an effect on everyone’s well-being. Gladwell begins with a graphic description of tooth decay, leading up to the point that people who can’t afford dental insurance end [...]
