Last Week's New Yorker Review: August 24 & 31
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of August 24 & 31 “‘BOY DO I NEED HELP VERY MUCH’” The best thing in the magazine this week is “Hidden Life”, the fiction piece...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "I just got out of a pretty serious relationship." Poems: “Saint Paul” by Hieu Minh Nguyen: Eesh, do we really need to be...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🏀 The Weekend Special (August 24)
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three KATs (for fiction), Anunobys (for essays), or Brunsons (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even one...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: August 17
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of August 17 “‘It’s not scary. It just sucks. It sucks big fat donkey dicks.’” It’s like I never left, no? Must-Read: “End of...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "I could learn to be a better partner to you," Poems: “Cereus” by Henri Cole: One can smell the perfume wafting off this...
Diet Last Week's New Yorker Review: Week 5 of 5
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of August 10 Thanks for bearing with me, seriously. Thursday (or thereabouts), a back-to-normal edition for the August 17 issue...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Establish an absolute and unquestionable rule over the entire kingdom" Poems: “wasps” by Jan Wagner: Similar to the previous...
Diet Last Week's New Yorker Review: Week 4 of 5
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of August 3 Must-Read: “A Map of the Stars” (Books) - Dayna Tortorici has an absolute blast selling the reader on structuralist...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Please take some leftovers" Sending this one (which covers the August 3 issue) out to everyone because I haven’t in quite a...
Diet Last Week's New Yorker Review: Week 3 of 5
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 27 Must-Read: “The Enabler” (A Reporter at Large) - Haven’t stopped thinking about this phenomenal David D. Kirkpatrick...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "BEGINNER" Poems: “Cul-de-Sac” by Andrea Cohen: I generally enjoy Cohen, and in the context of a collection, this might well...
Diet Last Week's New Yorker Review: Week 2 of 5
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 20 ok sorry however much work i thought this teaching intensive would be it’s been more work than that, but it’s gone...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Still working on that?" I have one more week of my program, which has proven even more all-consuming than I’d anticipated; at...
Diet Last Week's New Yorker Review: Week 1 of 4
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 6 & 13 Hello, dear readers! As I may have mentioned, I’m part of this year’s NYC Teaching Fellows, an intensive five-...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA QUARTER DOLLAR" Poems: “Campbell’s Tomato Soup” by Campbell McGrath: A fantastic title handled...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🏀 The Weekend Special (July 6)
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three KATs (for fiction), Anunobys (for essays), or Brunsons (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even one...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 29
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 29 “Oprah selected it for her book club; at her compound in Montecito, Whitehead was so nervous that her staff insisted...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "He’s like a character" Poems: “On Form” by Linda Gregerson: Secretly an urban planning poem, shrugging a bit at all that is...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🏀 The Weekend Special (June 29)
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three KATs (for fiction), Anunobys (for essays), or Brunsons (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even one...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 22
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 22 “Generations of readers rejected his snobbery, his prejudice, his tendency to write sentences such as ‘The same...