Last week Dan Baum ate from the tree-of-temptation and tweeted blaspheme about the holiest of literary-institutions, The New Yorker. This weekend: Slate's Troy Patterson, Eric Easter of EbonyJet, and Emily of Emdashes pass judgment:

You know that New Yorker twit-storm Dan Baum is still blogging about? Well, Susan Orlean's here to comment on all of that, with more than 140 characters! Can I get an invisible hi-five on that!