For her March 2022 Desktop (The host of the Share Your Desktop challenge is Clare’s Cosmos), self is having a difficult time choosing between these three:
Tag: The New Yorker
Chapter II, The Sixth Extinction (The Discovery of the Mastodon)
What a superb storyteller Elizabeth Kolbert is! To think self only heard about her books from reading the Contributors Notes for a back issue of The New…… Read more “Chapter II, The Sixth Extinction (The Discovery of the Mastodon)”
The New Yorker, 1 February 2021
A subscription is expensive, but is so worth it. Self saves all the back issues in a huge pile, and now and then, when things calm down…… Read more “The New Yorker, 1 February 2021”
Poetry Friday: Kimiko Hahn
To Be a DaughterAnd To Have a Daughter(An Excerpt)can forecast at-odds relationshipsespecially when the mother hazards to writewhile keeping the baby safefrom herself as she and the…… Read more “Poetry Friday: Kimiko Hahn”
So Long, Won’t Be Missing You
_________________________________________________________________________________ His tweets and retweets, which came “at a favored rate of more than a hundred a day,” provided “talking points right-wing media outlets,” and were “absorbed…… Read more “So Long, Won’t Be Missing You”
New York City, April 2020
Self suspended her subscription to The New Yorker a few months ago, since the pile of unread issues was getting ridiculous. She’s now just working her way…… Read more “New York City, April 2020”
Sentence of the Day: Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
25 November 2020 Putin warns that the U.S. is on the verge of being controlled by Americans. That is all.
Back Reading: The New Yorker, 18 May 2020
When an Ebola epidemic erupted in West Africa, in 2014, the United States and China, the world’s two largest economic powers, responded in starkly different fashions. The…… Read more “Back Reading: The New Yorker, 18 May 2020”
The Pandemic Protocol (The New Yorker, 4 May 2020)
Ground Zero was Evergreen Health, a hospital in Kirkland, WA, just east of Seattle: Here was where the first diagnosis of corona virus in the United States…… Read more “The Pandemic Protocol (The New Yorker, 4 May 2020)”
Looking Back, November 2016
Self is doing catch-up reading of The New Yorker. She’s currently reading The Talk of the Town of the 3 February 2020 issue: In the dazed aftermath…… Read more “Looking Back, November 2016”
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