TalkTNY: Issue of February 9 & 16, 2009

John Updike Adam Gopnik

Q. Where does Gopnik get it wrong? Are there any other New Yorker staffers that perform the same roles for the magazine besides Gopnik?

The Fadeaway Thirty-three years of editing Updike. by Roger Angell

Q. Which of Angell's paragraphs compare with Updike? Whose elegy is more accurate?

The Financial Page The myth of moral hazards. by James Surowiecki

Q. Should the markets be the deciding factors only some of the time? When should government step in?

Picked-Up Pieces Selections from half a century of work. by John Updike

Q. Which of these selections is Updike's strongest of its kind? Which is the weakest?

“Hedda Gabler.” by John Lahr
Q. Does Lahr's review pertain more to Ibsen's play or this production? (And more importantly, has MLP had work done?)

Introduction

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Issue of February 9 & 16, 2009

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