Showing posts with label the new yorker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the new yorker. Show all posts

03/11/2009

MYO New Yorker cartoon

Make your own New Yorker cartoon with The New Yorker Cartoon Kit.
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

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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.