NYer Haiku: September 18, 2006
New Yorker Haiku
September 18, 2006
Annals of Economics: Mind Games
By John Cassidy
Economists want
To scan your brain, find why you
Aren't more rational.
Reflections: In the Waiting Room
By David Sedaris
Forget learning French:
In Paris, "d'accord" means
Random fun (sans clothes)!
Profiles: The Wanderer
By David Remnick
Ex-Prez Clinton now
Working to save Africa
As Friend of Bill (Gates).
Fiction: Something That Needs Nothing
By Miranda July
Girl, not one she wants?
A wig and a peep-show gig
Might work for a spell.
On Television: Her Debut
By Tad Friend
Couric as anchor:
So much likability,
No time left for news.
A Critic At Large: War and Remembrance
By Ian Buruma
Grass's great memoir:
Boy lost in heroic myths.
(Is the man as well?)
Books: Hugger-Mugger
By John Updike
Congo schemes, despair
From le Carre. No closure
In Ward Just's dark tale.
The Current Cinema: Inescapable Pasts
By David Denby
"The Black Dahlia"
Is choked of life. "The Ground Truth":
Feel Iraq vets' shock.
4 Comments:
These are wonderful.
I used to get the New Yorker, but found it so overwhelming, that when I finally realized I had 12 unread issues backed up, I forced myself to cancel the subscription.
Keep up the good work! Fantastic!
Congrats, you've made it to the big time - your blog is on Gawker. And you're not even in New York!?!?! I will start polishing up my site now that I know midwesterners might catch the lofty gaze of the Gawker.
I love this! My guilt about paying for something that I can't keep up with, my New Yorker subscription, is decreasing as I type. This blog and televisionwithoutpity.com are going to change my life.
Wonderfully pithy.
Summary? Commentary?
It works either way.
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