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Anuncie — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:17:30 -0000

Thanks for this article, very interesting, i like this.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:26:07 -0000

Jim,

Your banned. I don't want people here who don't think before they write. Save the snark for your friends. We don't want it here.

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Sam — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:59:40 -0000

@jimkingwood

When TNC writes about comics and sci-fi, I skip it. I'm sure others skip the football posts. You could have skipped this one. What made you feel that your post was any type of contribution?

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jimkingwood — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:42:47 -0000

Sorry, boring. Incredibly meta, personal, and insider-ish.

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Alyssa Rosenberg — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:58:49 -0000

I own that collection and love it, rdigg. Thanks for the reminder to revisit that one.

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rdigg — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:44:51 -0000

Alyssa - I'm sure you've seen Remnick's collection of New Yorker profiles. A favorite is Hilton Als on Richard Pryor. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1999/09/13/1999_09_13_068_TNY_LIBRY_000019041

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Sam — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:45:09 -0000

I don't remember reading Levy before (I'm terrible at remembering authors' names), but I love the way you broke down the formula for the profile pieces. Now I'm really interested to read what she does with this piece--which I might not have read otherwise.

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Guster — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:04:26 -0000

Read her Van Dyke article and wasn't all that impressed, but perhaps I read for something different. My favorite is the one (is it Mead?) who tends to brutally skewer her subjects with their own words, while remaining punctiliously even-handed, at least overtly.

And I'm not sure that's just the profiles with the New Yorker. They do that with their stories about cabbage and cashmere and stuff, too. Start with a tapdancing cabbage-monger in Brooklyn, then suddenly you're hit with: "The first cabbages were grown in the Chmelnik Valley in what is now Lithuania in the third century," and three thousand words on the backstory of the cabbage. My wife and I are novelists, and sometimes tell each other: "You're getting a little New Yorker, here." (That said, I kinda love the form.)

And I keep waiting for your posts about comics. You just wrote a whole thing about the New Yorker and didn't even mention the _cartoons_. Throw me a bone, here.

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Sam Han — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:00:24 -0000

It's also because...she went to Wesleyan.

But no seriously, she's an excellent writer.