Cover: "Peak Season" by Victoria Tentler-Krylov
I got a fantastic introductory (six month) offer from Conde Nast to get the New Yorker Magazine plus digital access for a fraction of the true cost. Of course, I jumped at the amazing offer. Now I must remember in six months to cancel unless I want to pay the full, enormous amount of regular subscription.
So far, I've been reading the cartoons online and in the magazines - very entertaining - and discovered the short stories, one published per issue. Here is the title of the latest, which I found both intriguing and very well written.
“The True Margaret,” by Karan Mahajan
. I. Meera moved to London from India only to discover that her new husband already had a wife in the city.
I went back to a previous edition of the magazine and read that short story on a very different topic, but one which I found very moving and also very good. "Yogurt Days" is about a dying man who only likes to eat frozen yogurt, and about the women who take care of him.
I have about two more back issues of short stories to go through. Eventually, I'll read all the other essays on current issues, politics, current culture, etc. which I've only skimmed through so far. And did I forget to mention the poems scattered throughout each edition of The New Yorker?
So now I will have a pile of magazines to read as the mood hits me. Can't say I regret subscribing.
Current books
Hope by Anthony Ridker
Yesteryear, a memoir by Kathleen Burt
I hope to finish and review them shortly.
What's on your reading schedule this week and/or the rest of the month?injuly202
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