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Ian Frazier

Ian Frazier is a staff writer. He has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1974, when he published his first piece in The Talk of the Town. A year later, the magazine ran his short story “The Bloomsbury Group Live at the Apollo.” Since then, he has published numerous nonfiction, Shouts and Murmurs, Talk of the Town pieces, and short stories in the magazine.

Frazier is the author of eight books, including “Dating Your Mom,” (1986) and “Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody,” (1987). His 1989 book, “Great Plains,” began as a three-part “Reporter at Large” series for the magazine. “Family,” (1994) tells the history of his family in America from the early colonial days to the present, reconstructing two hundred years of middle-class life. His other books include “Coyote v. Acme,” (1996), “On the Rez,” (2000), “The Fish’s Eye,” (2002), and “Gone to New York: Adventures in the City,” (2005). He published a collection of humor essays, “Lamentations of the Father,” in 2008.

Frazier lives in New Jersey.

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Sep 30, 2013
Red Hook Postcard

Community Guns

“The reason kids pick up guns is that they are powerless. I try to let them understand how they can have power. We draw maps of their neighborhoods and figure out who their representatives are.”
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Sep 09, 2013
Shouts & Murmurs

Walking Normally: The Facts

CLAIM: Running very fast in circles around my legs while we are waiting for your mother by the baggage claim will hurry her arrival and pass the time. FACT: That is incorrect. There is no connection between your running and the plane that will make the plane land faster. Did you hear what I just said?
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Aug 26, 2013
Field Studies

By the Numbers

In New York City, there are “many hundreds of gardeners, probably more like thousands,” Philip Silva says. “And each garden is different, each has its own creation myth, its own characters.”
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Jul 08, 2013
Up Life’s Ladder

School’s Out

The great old Apollo Theatre filled up with family, friends, and schoolmates of Democracy Prep’s first-ever graduating class. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he considers himself to be what other speakers had urged the graduates to be: a voice for the voiceless and a defender of the defenseless.
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May 27, 2013
Shouts & Murmurs

Recherche

For a long time I used to go to bed early on the porch of a vacant Hooters. Often my eyes would close so quickly, after I turned out my little reading light, that I did not have even a moment to wonder at the strangeness of my surroundings; for in those days the demand of mine that I be put to bed with a good-night kiss from Mamma, and only on the porch of a vacant Hooters, still seemed as much a novelty to me, when I reflected upon it, as it was a puzzlement and even an annoyance to my family.
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May 20, 2013
Our Local Correspondents

Form and Fungus

Many plastics were invented to imitate natural substances, like rubber, wood, bone, silk, hemp, or ivory. Ecovative’s invention, in postmodern fashion, creates natural substances that imitate plastics. The packing material made by their factory takes a substrate of agricultural waste, like chopped-up cornstalks and husks; steam-pasteurizes it; adds trace nutrients and a small amount of water; injects the mixture with pellets of mycelium; puts it in a mold shaped like a piece of packing that protects a product during shipping; and sets the mold on a rack in the dark. Four days later, the mycelium has grown throughout the substrate into the shape of the mold, producing a material almost indistinguishable from Styrofoam in form, function, and cost. An application of heat kills the mycelium and stops the growth. When broken up and thrown into a compost pile, the packing material biodegrades in about a month.
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Mar 25, 2013
Last Rites

Bare Earth

On Thursday, March 7th, a man jumped from the roof of 290 Ninth Avenue, a twenty-four-story apartment building next to the Church of the Holy Apostles, in Manhattan. He landed a few feet from the base of the building on a patch of bare earth between some leafless bushes and a sidewalk that curves through the building’s courtyard.
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Mar 04, 2013
Ink

Tree Person

Talk story about Benjamin (Benjy) Swett, a photographer, who has completed a book of photographs of New York City trees…
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Feb 25, 2013
Shouts & Murmurs

Disclos’d

SHOUTS & MURMURS about the discovery of King Richard III’s bones in a parking lot in Leicester…
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Feb 11, 2013
Our Local Correspondents

The Toll

OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about Hurricane Sandy and Staten Island. When the storm hit, on October 29th, 2012, all the Staten Island ferries on the water were on the Staten Island side. One ferry was in drydock; the seven others had been tied to piers near the St. George ferry terminal…
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