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Tag Archives: The New Yorker
Quotes from a New Yorker Article
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Today there is a craft-coffee shop across the street, on the first floor of a building from 1898, which was home to the S. H. Kress & Co. department store. During a recent renovation, workers found … Continue reading
Pope Brody Issues an Encyclical
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Like the Pope issuing a bull, New Yorker film critic Richard Brody has declared Louis CK’s I LOVE YOU, DADDY to be a “disgusting movie that should never have been acquired for distribution in the first place.” … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Feminism, Louis C.K., Pepperidge Farm Remembers, Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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Juxtaposin’: Wisdom Literature
Blowhard, Esq. writes: In the New Yorker, Richard Brody writes: Of course, “Wonder Woman” is a superhero movie, and it fulfills the heroic and mythic demands of that genre, but it’s also an entry in the genre of wisdom literature that shares … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Philosophy and Religion
Tagged Richard Brody, The Bible, The New Yorker, wisdom literature, Wonder Woman
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Feature Writing House Style, Cont.
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Way back here, PR had some fun with the New Yorker’s style when it comes to article ledes, which he summarized thusly: On a date that’s peculiarly specific, and in a sentence that uses more commas than … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing
Tagged New York TImes, The New Yorker, writing
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House Style at The New Yorker
Paleo Retiree writes: Take a look at the following first-lines-of-articles-from-The-New-Yorker and tell me if you’re as struck by certain patterns and similarities as I’ve been. “In 2004, Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent several … Continue reading
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