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By C. Max Magee posted at 4:18 am on August 30, 2007 1

USA Today is running an excerpt of Denis Johnson’s much buzzed about new doorstop Tree of Smoke.
The New Yorker Food Issue, to my mind the highlight of the New Yorker publishing year, has arrived. Somehow I look forward to this one as much as I did the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue when I was twelve. Much of the good stuff isn’t online, but you can get a taste of the food writing on offer with a series of short essays under theme “Family Dinner.” Aleksandar Hemon, Gary Shteyngart, Nell Freudenberger, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, David Sedaris, Anthony Lane, and Donald Antrim are on the menu.

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One Response to “Two Good Things”

Poornima
at 6:53 pm on September 4, 2007
I really enjoyed the Food issue over the long weekend — especially Calvin Trillin's essay on Singaporean street food and Shteyngart's little morsel on suffering Russian food at McD's. For good measure, I also revisited the Travel special from April — an issue I had saved to read again.

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C. Max Magee created and edits The Millions. He is co-editor of the collection of essays The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books, called "funny, poignant, relentlessly thought-provoking" by The Atlantic. He has appeared on NPR’s “Weekend Edition”, Minnesota Public Radio’s “Midmorning”, and ABC Radio National's "The Book Show" and has written for a number of publications. He and his family live in New Jersey. If you'd like to correspond, please don't hesitate to email.

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