The New Yorker - USA (2022-04-18)
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40 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 PERSONAL HISTORY MEN OF LETTERS With father-and-son writers, who gets to tell the family story? ...
THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 41 The author’s father was once warned by his therapist, “Do not enter into competition with Tad.” ...
privacy in the kitchen. The air in the darkened living room between us crack- led like a force field. When I was seven, Day reco ...
THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 43 “whisked me to La Grenouille for lunch. The room is filled with fresh flowers + the light bulbs ...
44 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when we long to move ...
THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 45 things.” Day once told me he’d spent much of his life documenting Ameri- can imperialism because ...
46 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 asked to see layouts for the piece, pho- tos of Mom and me when I was young. Examining them, he ...
THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 47 ger speak. “So I reminisced about early days in Buffalo,” Day wrote, “weekends in the countr ...
48 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 ILLUSTRATION BY SHIR PAKMAN FICTION Just a Little Fever Sheila Heti ...
THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 49 S he was shampooing her hair with cherries. It was entirely her idea to do it—she hadn’t read ab ...
50 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 she had never stopped feeling that An- gela was the name of a fish. “Thank you, Pearl,” he said, ...
THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 51 She and the father left the park and went into a nearby café, where it wasn’t so windy, while To ...
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what she would see. And yet here was Thomas, and he was quite content to look at her in his placid way, without any real judgmen ...
54 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 of all your friends?” He wasn’t criticiz- ing; he was just curious. “Theoretically, if I wante ...
THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 55 A soldier in blue sits high on the branch of a pine tree. The barrel of his rifle, jutting hard ...
56 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 the safety of Homer’s studio, in New York City. He’d moved from his na- tive Boston in 1859, usi ...
THENEWYORKER, APRIL 18, 2022 57 fore in two substantive paintings, “The Bright Side” and “Army Boots,” which, while they don’t t ...
so, financially and socially. His father, Charles, a proud man, seems to have failed in every business venture he tried; his mot ...
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