The New Yorker, 2008-{04-07,03-10}

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"Secrets of the Deep" / John Colapinto

"Say What?" / James Wood
__ our usual conversation is closer to Charles Bovary’s than we might like—a sidewalk on which everyone else’s opinions and phrases have walked. Actual speech tends to be dribblingly repetitive,
__ 'Uncle Plexiglass'

"Fast Company" / Dan Chiasson
__ These opinions, decanted from a complex personality that partook equally of passion and parody...
__ O’Hara’s first real accomplishment was his personality

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"Smoke On the Water" / David Remnick
__ "They just picked it out of their noses and smeared it on their little papers."

"Want Ad: Beautiful Minds" / Lizzie Widdicombe

"Secret Skin" / Michael Chabon
__ (and let us not forget the Legion of Substitute Heroes)

"Two For One" / Judith Thurman
__ ...like coutour the cut had a mandarin inscrutability. Softly pleated, overlapping swags fell from the shouloders and were molded to the body like the leaves of a corn husk, tapering to a narrow V that should have hobbled the woman's ankles.
__ (Isabel Toledo) transforms a geometric plane into a poetic volume that you couldn't have imagined." (Toledo has described her craft as "romantic mathematics.")
__ It was a short, champagne-colored gown with a fitted waist and a full skirt, constructed entirely of narrow, hand-shirred silk bands seamed into tiers. {I wonder if Yihua remembers that dress that got away.}

"The Other Obama" / Lauren Collins
__ Someone who has spent a good portion of her life gaining purchase has suddenly been asked to sell something, and she seems to find it slightly beneath her.

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