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March162009

Letters From Home: Steve Martin's Stand, Emily Gould's Address

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Emily Gordon writes:

Notable in the news (as we say at Emdashes HQ, “old news is good news”):

Steve Martin Play Stirs School Controversy, reports the Times, and Martin is getting involved personally to defend the honor of his play, which is, of course, entirely honorable and replete with the exact sort of “adult content” to which teenagers should be exposed. On the other hand, the night that I saw Picasso at the Lapin Agile (in 1993 or so), the cabbie who was getting me to the show by curtain time—and we were rushing—got in a controversy of his own with another cabbie, and one of them (I can’t remember which now) leapt out at a red light, got a tire iron from his trunk, and started pounding on the other one’s car. Normally, I find cabbies to be extremely peaceful people, so it was memorable.

I hadn’t seen this Designing Magazines post about New Yorker DNA-sharing noble magazine Wigwag, which was edited by Lex Kaplen, art directed by Paul Davis, and contributed to by (for instance, and what a for instance) Nancy Franklin, but it’s really worth delving into the post and its ache-inducing images.

Emily Gould writes that the March 2, 2009, issue of The New Yorker (“Ryan Lizza’s Rahm Emanuel profile. Ariel Levy on Van Lesbians. Rebecca Mead making some opera lady interesting”) is “the best New Yorker of all time, pretty much,” and, being aware of the self-googling nature of us all these days, addresses Adam Gopnik directly.

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One of the neat things I remember from Wigwag was the Letter From Springfield—filed each issue from a different Springfield in the U.S. (pre-Simpsons, this was the first I learned of ‘Springfield’ being the ultimate Anywhere, USA town name), by Angolan writer Sousa Jamba.

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