Thursday, November 27, 2014
November 24, 2014 Issue
Pleasures abound in this week’s issue (“The Tech Issue”):
“the easy, cheesy thrills of the appetizers” at Upland (“Amelia Lester, “Tables
For Two”); the “in-process” feel of Bryan Graf’s photograms, “as if the fabric
were still moving, refracting and layering gossamer passages of magenta, rose,
and acid green” (“Goings On About Town: Art”); the “razor-sharp pulp efficacy” of
the action scenes in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Third Generation (Richard Brody, “Goings On About Town:
Movies”); the “subtle but staggeringly delicious truffle pasta with grated yak
cheese” at Aldo Sohm Wine Bar (“Sarah Larson, “Bar Tab”); the “heavy, golden,
fan-shaped leaves” of New York City’s ginkgoes (Oliver Sacks, “Night of the
Ginkgo”); the 10xers on the roof of Altay Guvench’s “hacker mansion,” finishing
their drinks in the fog (Lizzie Widdicombe, “The Programmer’s Price”); Sean
Parker, in his Plaza Hotel apartment, “dressed in jeans and rust-colored high
tops, drinking tea from a white china cup” (John Seabrook, “Revenue Streams”);
the sound of a Wyss Institute 3-D printer “clacking and clattering like a busy
riveting machine” (Jerome Groopman, “Print Thyself”); the roar of the crowd in
Lincoln Theatre, “as it saw Scarlett plant a hatchery – a pulsing, cloudy blue
blob – down in the corner, next to PartinG’s home base” (Ben McGrath, “Good
Game”); the “jagged music” of Penelope Fitzgerald’s prose – “each sentence is a
little different from its predecessor; nothing is allowed to settle into the
familiar” (James Wood, “Late Bloom”). I enjoyed it immensely.
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