Mine will be my facebook profile picture and then people will ask me or just themselves why I have replaced my face with something that is not funny beautiful meaningful or my face and I will have no real answer. That is the plan. Also maybe win a trip to New York, that would be pretty sweet.
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Showing posts with label the new yorker. Show all posts
03/11/2009
MYO New Yorker cartoon
Mine will be my facebook profile picture and then people will ask me or just themselves why I have replaced my face with something that is not funny beautiful meaningful or my face and I will have no real answer. That is the plan. Also maybe win a trip to New York, that would be pretty sweet.
22/05/2009
fiction fiction fiction fiction cultural outreach program?
New Yorker Fiction Podcasts
I wanted to title this 'best-kept fiction secret*' with the asterisk conceding that it likely isn't much of a secret to anyone Stateside, or maybe just anyone outside of Jersey CI. But what was drawing me to such an uninspired phrase, a cliché even inaccurate? Hard to say. And I'm gonna blame it on island uninspiration in general. shiiiiit.
But this really is some kind of cross-atlantic -thrown lifebuoy, a voice over the airwaves, a beacon of if not hope then at least some kind of entertainment
Each week some (generally younger) New Yorker-published author chooses, reads and discusses a piece of short fiction from another (generally older) New Yorker-published author. There's Updike, Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borgess, loads of other people I haven't heard of but probably should have...
quite liked Jean Stafford - Children Are Bored on Sundays. 'Invalid Souls'.
I could make more of a list. I haven't listened to them all yet. I can come back.
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