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Some people believe that humorous fiction in The New Yorker has long been legally dead of inanition. Fans of Garrison Keillor and Veronica Geng, two of the magazine's steadiest contributors of whimsy, will disagree. But the most hilarious refutations of this charge have come from Author Ian Frazier, 35, an alumnus of the Harvard Lampoon and a New Yorker staff writer whose stories began bouncing off the wall and into the magazine some ten years ago. These appearances have, to be sure, been infrequent and highly irregular. Dating Your Mom collects a decade's worth of funny business...
...Frazier's work glimmers most madly when it is accompanied by the element of surprise. Ideally, spectators should be innocently thumbing through pages of ads, entertainment listings, cartoons and long gray lines of print when they stumble into The End of Bob's Bob House. Whoa. Wait a minute: "In the thirties, it was in the basement of the old Vanderbob Towers Hotel. In the forties, it moved into the first floor of the Youbob Building on Fifty-second Street. In the late fifties, it settled in what was to become its final home, the plush revolving lounge...
...part, Frazier is the kind of guy who could, within weeks of New York - City's 1977 power blackout, come up with A Good Explanation, a minute-by- minute recounting of how things might have gone wrong. Sample entry: "8:57 p.m. Every person in Queens between the ages of 14 and 36 gets out of the shower and turns on a blow-dryer. This places an enormous strain on the power reserves of the system." The author likes to convey the impression that he is a serious, high-minded fellow who is simply trying to turn the dross...
Melissa A. Frazier '87, who considered opening a shelter in Leverett House with other concerned students following the recent controversy over a short-lived Harvard attempt to keep the homeless off heating grates there, said she doesn't understand the attitude of Central Square residents...
...have trouble seeing why a shelter is bad," Frazier said. "I would prefer having a shelter in my neighborhood than having people wandering around in the street--it would be safer...