partricia marx stuff is just crazy. how long has she been writing for the magazine?
― just sayin, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes it's funny, but most of the time I start reading it without paying attention and start thinking, when is this interesting article about shopping going to get to the point? Then I notice it's her article and I realize it's just going to be 3 more pages of gift prices and snarky comments.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh fuckin hate patricia marx
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like shes been writing the xmas issue 'upper west siders buy shit' article since i started reading the mag in high school but google says 1989
sometimes i half enjoy the ivy league legacy types @ the new yorker but marx is p worthless & unfunny
― Prom Dressantino 2011 (Lamp), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but as bad as she is, even she isn't as unfunny and uninteresting as shouts and murmurs routinely is.
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
do people find the woody allen shouts & murmurs funny? i can barley get through those and they're only like a page long.
and patricia marx articles are the only ones i skip by byline alone.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder why i don't spend more time being enraged by patricia marx, the way i do with nancy franklin? it's like i forget she exists as soon as i see her byline and think "wtf?"
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't mind Nancy Franklin.
I loved Woody Allen growing up, but his S + M stuff is terrible. Maybe it's no different and I'm the one who changed. I love Jack Handey and a few others. Every few issues there's a S + M that I think is pretty funny.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Did not know that Ben McGrath was only 34.
http://www.newyorker.com/images/contributors/p233/contributor_benmcgrathphoto_p233_crop.jpg
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not sure that I've ever laughed, even internally, at Shouts + Murmurs. Not even Woody Allen, and I love that guy.
― Z S, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
this was good - What I imagined the people around me were saying when I was...
― just sayin, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
sad to see bob odenkirk being unfunny in last weeks S&M.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
it's like trying to be funny at a funeral; the location makes things more difficult.
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Simon Rich has a lot of funny ones:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/simon_rich/search?contributorName=simon%20rich
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't care for any of those really.
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
but that's me i guess.
i don't even bother w/ "shouts & murmurs" anymore
― gr8080, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I like a enough of them. Maybe you guys aren't "new yorker" enough. Maybe Hawaii and New Jersey have their own funny magazines for your sensibilities.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, dude i am posting from 53rd and 5th. i was mugged on the way in by the statue of liberty.
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I AM NY
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
simon rich and jack handey are the only shouts and murmurs authors worth reading
― max, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
patricia marx sucks but its harder to be mad about her than nancy franklin b/c theres no reason for them to have only one, terrible tv reviewer, instead of one terrible one and one p good one, the way they do with all the rest of their critics
― max, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
name names
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
lane - gooddenby - terrible
alex ross - goodsfj - hit or miss
james wood and some of the other bros - okadam gopnik - f this dude
― max, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
poor joan acocella
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"some of the other bros"
― max, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
if you are a(n american) sports fan, it's def worth reading ben mcgrath on concussions in football ― mookieproof, Sunday, January 30, 2011 12:21 PM (2 days ago) Bookmarkthis one from 2009 is a great read too: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell― gr8080, Tuesday, February 1, 2011 2:11 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― mookieproof, Sunday, January 30, 2011 12:21 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
this one from 2009 is a great read too: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell
― gr8080, Tuesday, February 1, 2011 2:11 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I was like wtf big-upping a Gladwell piece, but after I read it, it's actually a little bit better on both the medical side and the moral side (though I can imagine people thinking that MG is stretching the analogy).
― Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Thursday, 3 February 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
lol malcom gladwell hating is such an ILX cliche
― gr8080, Thursday, 3 February 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
lol so is ur face. ^_^
― Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Thursday, 3 February 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm a big peter schjalujkojahl fan. forget who the other art critic is.
― Moreno, Thursday, 3 February 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont think they have a second art critic. not in the back of the book.
and yea i like schjeldahl too. dont always agree with him but hes a great writer.
― max, Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I can see that Gopnik is incredibly intelligent and a deft, original prose writer but something about him aggravates the hell out of me. It's self-conscious "fine writing" of the kind that James Wood is always slamming in fiction.
I saw that Ben McGrath was 34 and that he'd first contributed in 2002. I don't know how anyone gets to be a New Yorker contributor but certainly not a 25/26-year-old. Do you just get the call one day? Do you hang around the office until they get tired of telling you no? Do you have to make your bones, mob-style?
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 3 February 2011 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
WS James Surowiecki any day of the week.
No really, he's hot.
― quincie, Thursday, 3 February 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
he used to live on my block
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 February 2011 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Where does he live now, I will run to him
― quincie, Thursday, 3 February 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
he and his poetess wife moved elsewhere, sorry
john seabrook on crowds/stampedes is v. interesting
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 February 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
ben mcgraths dad used to be the magazines fiction editor
― max, Thursday, 3 February 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
had never heard of that hillsborough soccer disaster, that photo is srsly something -
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01380/HillsboroughDisast_1380793c.jpg
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 3 February 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Mystery solved. Not to say he's not a good writer.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 3 February 2011 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
hey someone just posted this to facebook
ahem cobble hill was NOT rough when you moved there in 2002 . . honky please . . i know its the new yorker but still
whats it abt, seems like a good topic to discuss here
― ice cr?m, Friday, 4 February 2011 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
true, but the dude wrote that in a piece about his wife dying, so maybe it should slide
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 February 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
What article is that? I don't remember and I have opinions, as somebody who lived in Cobble Hill in 2002.
― dan selzer, Friday, 4 February 2011 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, jesus, it's like the saddest story ever.
it's the personal history one from this weeks issue. xp
― Moreno, Friday, 4 February 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/07/110207fa_fact_goldman
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 February 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
my cousin lived in cobble hill in 2002, someone got murdered in the house next to hers
― max, Friday, 4 February 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
There really isn't many parts of any big city, especially one that's this diverse, that isn't a stone's throw from some less safe neighborhood. Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens are some of the most desirable streets in Brooklyn and are filled with wealthy, wealthy people, living 1 block from a relatively bad housing project. I haven't read the story yet, but while I'd certainly say that by 2002 most of Cobble Hill was gentrified, doesn't mean you wouldn't find yourself in a rough area if you walk 1 block in the wrong direction. And it's still that way.
― dan selzer, Friday, 4 February 2011 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
lots of mafiabros iirc
― max, Friday, 4 February 2011 04:41 (thirteen years ago) link
True, but they never mugged my friend who lived a block away!
John Lurie discussing his questionable New Yorker profile:
http://www.jambands.com/features/2011/02/01/john-lurie-sustains/
― dan selzer, Friday, 4 February 2011 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
ruth franklin's article on h.g. adler is really good (01/31/11 issue)
― cowboys_defeats_magic_earth2.jpg (Lamp), Sunday, 6 February 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Working my way through the Guillermo del Toro, and actually my biggest gripe is how the reporter renders del Toro's speech into stilted sound bites, when I remember him speaking a lot more expansively and dynamically.
― Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Sunday, 6 February 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link