.Power-reading

For one reason and another the backlog isn't vanishing as quickly as we'd like. The first priority is to read all the publications likely to contain grim information: now completed are all issues of New Yorker, New York, Harper's, Economist, Atlantic, Manchester Guardian, and the three newsmagazines. There'll be lots of this stuff in the three book reviews (NYRB, TLS, LRB), but not in so great a ratio; these are portable, so get caught up with last. All picture mags apart from one last Nest are done. In a W that came this way is a one-page on Malcolm Gladwell, with information not seen elsewhere and accompanied by a comical photograph (the site linked to is that horrible fastcompany; this is his official site). Still awaiting the big read are PC Magazine (now pitifully thin and growing more slender with each issue), just one Wired, plus a couple of issues of New Mexico and of Texas Gardener. But wait; there's more! A couple of months' worth of TV y Novelas, Fama, TV Notas, and TeleRevista. Gloomy old Fortune, Forbes, and BusWeek are current. But wait; there's even more! Down at the bottom of some heap are two PaperMags. And one Esquire. Rolling Stone is often rather dull these days, but the year-end round-up was quite good, including some fine interviews (one of the better ones was with Michael Moore).