The thing that stood out from those two stories for me is that they're bordering on genre pieces, which isn't what I expected from the New Yorker. I think I was expecting smaller/quieter relationship/family dramas, like Jhumpa Lahiri. Not stories where a woman is stoned to death in a dystopian alternate reality and where a man misses his whole life swimming from one party drink to another. It's nice. Also really loved the Cat Person (is that the title?) story that went viral, which again, to me, felt more noisy and transgressive than I was expecting. Again, I think I was expecting smaller/quieter stories from the New Yorker, but I'm loving what they're actually like based on what I've read so far.
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