Word: frazier
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Some people believe that humorous fiction in The New Yorker has long been legally dead of inanition. Fans of Garrison Keillor and Veronica Geng, two of the magazine's steadiest contributors of whimsy, will disagree. But the most hilarious refutations of this charge have come from Author Ian Frazier, 35, an alumnus of the Harvard Lampoon and a New Yorker staff writer whose stories began bouncing off the wall and into the magazine some ten years ago. These appearances have, to be sure, been infrequent and highly irregular. Dating Your Mom collects a decade's worth of funny business...
...Frazier's work glimmers most madly when it is accompanied by the element of surprise. Ideally, spectators should be innocently thumbing through pages of ads, entertainment listings, cartoons and long gray lines of print when they stumble into The End of Bob's Bob House. Whoa. Wait a minute: "In the thirties, it was in the basement of the old Vanderbob Towers Hotel. In the forties, it moved into the first floor of the Youbob Building on Fifty-second Street. In the late fifties, it settled in what was to become its final home, the plush revolving lounge...
Melissa A. Frazier '87, who considered opening a shelter in Leverett House with other concerned students following the recent controversy over a short-lived Harvard attempt to keep the homeless off heating grates there, said she doesn't understand the attitude of Central Square residents...
...have trouble seeing why a shelter is bad," Frazier said. "I would prefer having a shelter in my neighborhood than having people wandering around in the street--it would be safer...
...Dolphin-Bear title game--would be akin to depriving it of a Yankee-Dodger World Series in lieu of a Mariner-Giant baseball battle, akin to depriving it of a Celtic-Laker Championship in lieu of a Cavalier-Maverick hoop hoedown, or akin to depriving it of an Ali-Frazier replay in lieu of a Tex Cobb-Ed "Too Tall" Jones boxing bout...