A note from the Fraymaster: Welcome to the first installment of "Best of the Fray," a weekly column featuring the sharpest posts from our new reader feedback forum. If you'd like to comment on a Slate article, we encourage you to do so in "The Fray," and if it's especially good, we'll excerpt it here (though we may edit it for length). You might also get a reply: Many Slate writers visit the Fray to read the posts about their stories, and some respond there. (For instance, Robert Pinsky, our poetry editor, will be participating in The Fray's " Poem" topic at 12 p.m. PST, Friday, Oct. 29.)--Michael Brus

SUBJECT: Love Diary ... but it's not edgy enough

FROM: Will Juntunen

DATE: Thu Sept 9

This is purely an opinion. I really like reading the diary feature. But I see the writing of high achievers, but I'm not seeing people who are on the edge. For example, you had a great feature on a real estate agent. But she was a very successful real estate person. Likewise, the lawyer who went to China was a very successful lawyer.

Now in the Lewis and Clark diaries, the possibility of disaster always loomed. Could we read the diaries of a man or a woman who is a little closer to the edge?

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SUBJECT: Tabloids and Baloney Sandwiches

FROM: King Arthur

DATE: Fri Sept 10