Emdashes—Modern Times Between the Lines
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New Yorker letters: a batch you can buy!
Sublimely ridiculous scene: Family Guy.
The New Yorker Conference has been blazing all day!
Able Martin is on it—I’m closing away.
Walt Kelly in Madison, posing with Pogo;
Crazed MFA humor—Shouts & Murmurs take note.
That last, loosely rhymed item refers to a piece by Tom Hopkins, who has concocted something for everyone—wailing fiction writers, gnashing poets, and everyone in between.
And thanks to the all-seeing B.K. for the Pogo and eBay links above. Anyone have $995 they can lend me? If yes, after I read all the letters in this batch (“In one, Harold Ross declines the suggestion for a feature on Washington affairs, but suggests writing for other departments; ‘You could put a lot of things in there with a slight sarcastic touch’”), I think they should be given a proper home with their true friends in the New York Public Library, where they will be loved, enfolded in calm, cool boxes, and available to visit whenever we begin to miss them.
