TNY’s American Chronicles: coffee, tea, or him?
Posted in TNY, art, literature & other distractions on Thursday, Apr. 20, 2006
(Losing weight will be easy if you’re reading TNY this week. Image: carolita johnson)
About Tables for Two, oops, I mean, “What Happened at Alder Creek?“, Dana Goodyear’s American Chronicles piece about the Donner Family Camp’s legendary cannibalism in The New Yorker this week. A word to the wise. Not to be read during your lunch hour unless you are striving to lose weight. In fact, I wouldn’t read it before lunch, or during lunch, nor even after lunch if you’re not hoping to lose said lunch. I happened to be reading it after lunch, and found myself suppressing the urge to gag. Personally, I’d have appreciated it if the end of the story were in the first paragraph.
Bleeeeeeaaaagh!
But of course, you’ll go have a look, won’t you? Because who can resist a campfire story that boasts a line like, “What do you think I cooked this morning? Shoemaker’s arm.”
