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In reply to the discussion: "Obama and the End of Greatness" [View all]RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)41. You must not be a regular reader.
With the except of the annual fiction issue, I'd say about 80-85% of the New Yorker is non-fiction.
I've been a subscriber for more than 30 years and a reader for almost 50.
In fact, I can remember when it used to arrive in the mail inside a brown-paper sleeve.
And do you know what that sleeve said on the outside?
NEWSPAPER
No, go, and never darken my towels again!
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Oops, this is the clip I meant to post, but they're both good so I'll leave that earlier one.
Electric Monk
Oct 2014
#5
The minute a President actually seems to be bringing change, Americans slam the brakes
Algernon Moncrieff
Oct 2014
#9
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask "How can I make a buck off it?" nt
bemildred
Oct 2014
#39
Correction: it's not a short story, and it's written by (not about) a Clinton staffer.
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#22
Story means fiction. This is a tendentious essay, written by an interested party. nt
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#25
This Esquire article does a great job describing how bollixed up we are
BeyondGeography
Oct 2014
#29