NEW YORKER PORN

It started with a search for more Franzen after The Corrections and Freedom failed to quench my thirst, and ended when I found a bevvy of his hilarious short stories online. Yes, as trite as it sounds, when I'm in-between books or simply turning pages but not taking anything in and therefore having to re-read sequences continuously (which is arduous and annoying and BTW, never, happens in Harry Potter) I find myself turning to the online sanctim of www.newyorker.com. For the record, I do so on my laptop, not my iPad (although the advertisement starring Jason Schwartzmann for The New Yorker iPad Application is hilarious), and I do so because the short stories that feature are, as is unsurprising for this seminal publication, quite grand.

Todays, however, was different and piqued my attention unlike any other. Todays was titled Escape From Spiderhead, written by George Saunders (we nearly have the same last name, no biggie). It started off in a way I hate - with references to futuristic developments of some kind, in this case pharmaceuticals. But then, it began to explain what these pharmaceuticals did. And what one of these pharmaceuticals did was make the opposite sex attractive and said attractiveness actioned. There's no extremely descriptive sequences - I would call it R18 rather than XXX - but, I did conclude that this is actually how every dude would write about said experiences if he could. I don't have a review to offer here, because although I thought parts were hilarious I can't actually decide if it was particularly clever, but I do suggest you see what I mean by reading it HERE. Also, getting New Yorker fiction for free when the physical copy costs like $25.00 here is pretty sweet.