The New Yorker, Ian Frazier | featured news

For a measure of how far things have come, consider “The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days,” a full-length comic fugue derived from Ian Frazier’s New Yorker columns, whose most notable passages would never have made it off Shawn’s desk — any more than they can be quoted in a family newspaper. The mommy in question travels from Happy Homemaker to Mad Housewife in the space of a sentence, and her attempts to undertake even the simplest domestic chores end in ruin and a stream of block-capital swearing that would make a rapper blush.