Pastoralia
by George Saunders

I often pick up a handful of free New Yorkers from the University City Library.

The New Yorker, May 19, 2003

Highlights:

Tapka
by David Bezmozgis
(wonderful short story).

Accountants in the Sky
by Elizabeth Kolbert
(on New York state politics--what a disaster)

The Mission
by Calvin Tomkins
(about the Dia Art Foundation--a strange world, buying buildings to fill the first floor with dirt)

The AIDS Rebel
(about an AIDS activist in S. Africa)

A good issue!

The Control of Nature
by John McPhee

Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh

The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh

The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford

All the Little Live Things
by Wallace Stegner

Bookslut review

The Gyrth Chalice Mystery
by Margery Allingham

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
by Nicholson Baker