What so appealed to me right now in Frazier’s praise was this: he describes a man who lived independently of the smothering effects of yearning to belong. Such is the case with Ian Frazier’s conclusion to his chapter on Crazy Horse. Sometimes I want to report on whole sections of a book because they have forged such a strong memory in me. Sometimes whole books move me so that I must write about them so as to learn what I think. Sometimes I add bits to the interior of my money clipped cards where they rest between my book list and the photo of Joe Namath throwing a jump pass against the Oakland Raiders. I turn down pages, underline, write in margins, tear newspapers to pieces and stack fragments on my desk for later use. The inclination to think in terms of how I might use it in a classroom lesson has never left me. (I think I found both of them remaindered at a mall B.Almost every day I come across a sentence, an image, a line of poetry, or a sharp piece of dialogue, and I try to remember it. I think I discovered him on the silly side, with his classic collections Dating Your Mom and Coyote V. Luckily for me, I like the work of both Fraziers. The silly side, and is not as strongly identified with the New Yorker to begin with.) Is somewhat similar, but he's spent the vast majority of his career on Throw-these-two-odd-facts-together-at-high-speed humor pieces. Known best for: serious, boots-on-the-ground reportage full of checked facts and Ian Frazier is a long-time New Yorker writer, and one of theįew who straddles the line between the two kinds of writing they're

Years Prematurely Declared to Be Over (3).

Travel Broadens The Mind Until You Can't Get Your Head Out the Door (94).

The First Thing We Do Let's Kill All the Lawyers (6).

Tedious Minutiae of a Boring Life (349).

It's Only The End of the World Again (1).Horrible Images That Will Never Leave Your Brain (12).Hornswoggler's Estleman Loren Project (12).The Complete Peanuts, 1999 to 2000 by Charles M.Sweaterweather and Other Short Stories by Sara Varon.Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula by Andi Watson.My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris.Lost and Found: 1969-2003 by Bill Griffith.

Great Plains by Ian Frazier