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New Items Are on Sale All Week in The New Yorker Store

New Items Are on Sale All Week in The New Yorker Store 1

Just in time for the holidays, The New Yorker Store is offering new items and discounted prices. Between Monday and Thursday, select products are on sale for twenty per cent off; on Black Friday, shoppers receive a thirty-per-cent discount sitewide.…

Motorcycle Daze – The American Conservative

Motorcycle Daze – The American Conservative 11

The last thing I wanted to do was ride a motorcycle to Vintage Motorcycle Days. At 40, I have only a few years’ experience, and took my first motorcycle trip—a 500-mile jaunt—just last summer. On the way back from that…

Mary Gaitskill Has Come Online

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Mary Gaitskill is a novelist, essayist, and short-story writer celebrated by readers and critics (this one included) for her uncompromising acuity and clear-eyed vivisection of our mottled human nature. Now she is something else, too: a blogger. In June, Gaitskill,…

Mark Ulriksen’s “All Rise!”

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On Tuesday, September 20th, Aaron Judge, the Yankees’ six-foot-seven-inch star outfielder, hit a home run deep into the left-field bleachers. It was his sixtieth of the season. Only Babe Ruth and Roger Maris have reached that number in the history…

Mark Ulriksen’s “About Time”

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Baseball fans have long been known for their patience. But, this year, Major League Baseball introduced a series of new rules that will alter the routines and rhythms of the old ballgame, adding some hustle to the mix. Bases, once…

Marcel Proust on What Writing Is

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Proust died at fifty-one, in Paris, of pneumonia, on November 18th, and last year was the centenary of his death. Since I first read “In Search of Lost Time,” his immense and unique autobiographical novel, a long passage about what…