After Ben McGrath’s October 16 YouTube story, a frequent YouTuber (“I find it quaint and old-fashioned that you would refer to the personalities on YouTube as ‘stars.’ ” It reminds me of the people who refer to CDs as ‘records’ “) wrote a letter to the editor, and he recorded himself reading it on, appropriately, YouTube. The video itself is after the jump. Thanks for the tip, LiveJournal’s Fans of The New Yorker Magazine!
 
Meanwhile, my friend Dan Nester has sent me two bewitching poems by Caitlin Grace McDonnell, “composed entirely of fragments from The New Yorker’s Summer Fiction Issue 1999.”