Acme” and “ LGA-ORD,” quickly became reader favorites, but he is also well-known for his wide-ranging articles on the American West, fly fishing, the contemporary lives of Native Americans, and travels through Siberia. Many of Frazier’s humor pieces, including “ Coyote v. After graduating, he worked briefly at Oui, a spinoff of Playboy, before joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1974. Frazier grew up in Hudson, Ohio, and he attended Harvard University, where he wrote for the Lampoon. He has been called “America’s greatest essayist” by the Los Angeles Times, and his pieces crackle with dry Midwestern wit. Over the past thirty-five years, the Thurber Prize-winning essayist and reporter Ian Frazier has contributed nearly two hundred and fifty feature articles, comic essays, and Talk of the Town stories to The New Yorker. Today’s selection is “Great Plains,” by Ian Frazier, from 1989. The issue containing that day’s selected piece will be made freely available in our digital archive and will remain open until the next day’s selection is posted. To celebrate, over eighty-five weekdays we will turn a spotlight on a notable article, story, or poem from the magazine’s history. This year is The New Yorker’s eighty-fifth anniversary.
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