Word: yorkerism
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Hornby’s definition of pop is broad enough to include Bob Dylan as well as Nelly Furtado. He has little time for snobbishness, though in a piece previously published in The New Yorker he surveys the Billboard Top Ten albums with a mixture of bewilderment, distaste and humor...
This leather desk diary, illustrated with cartoons from the New Yorker, comes in navy or red, and you can have a name stamped on the front cover. Cartoonbank.com also offers framed prints of the highbrow doodle of your choice...
...Before the title story of the collection was published in the 2001 debut fiction issue of The New Yorker, where Freudenberger worked as an editorial assistant, the 26-year-old had taught English in Bangkok and New Delhi. Four of the five stories in Lucky Girls are drawn from her experiences living among Americans in Asia. In the title story, about a young American woman drifting in New Delhi after the death of her married Indian lover, Freudenberger hits the telling detail again and again, as when her narrator looks at the Taj Mahal and catches "the unexpected view...
Hornby moonlights as a pop music critic for The New Yorker, and his books often revolve around love, humor and music...
...suggest that broccoli is a form of foreplay for perky twentysomethings?" Other readers couldn't get past fashion. A Chicagoan quipped, "Maybe your next issue should be about the secrets of dressing smarter. Your model appears to be stuck in the 1980s." Seconding that opinion was a New Yorker who declared, "Ask any woman--no one has worn earrings like that since...