Yeah so this Mary Gaitskill story
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 04:28 (four years ago) link
It's good and often excellent, despite smart cavils I've read.β recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, May 19, 2019 5:15 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink
β recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, May 19, 2019 5:15 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink
i just finished it. it was excellent (the "aren't people on their phones a lot these days" stuff notwithstanding)
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
(these truths by jill lepore, that is)
I absolutely loved the golf and ski stories, which is something I never thought I would write, seeing as golf and skiing are two things that really don't interest me (and that I didn't think would be interesting to read about, for that matter). Shows what a great writer can do with ... golf and skiing.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
I am about 20% of the way through ben taubβs 20000-word story about mohamedou salahi and his guard at guantanamo, and I can already tell it is going to be one of my favorite things I read this year
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/guantanamos-darkest-secret/amp
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 23 July 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
it's a really good piece; amazing arc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
damn good piece.
an aside: wood's coffee consumption is something else:
βOut here, Iβm probably only drinking seven or eight coffees per day,β he told me. (During the layover in Casablanca, he had drunk a Red Bull and twenty-two shots of espresso.)
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 July 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
sounds like http://blissbat.net/balzac.html
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 26 July 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
The New Yorkerβs review of βuntitled goose gameβ is the most New Yorkery thing Iβve ever read pic.twitter.com/yVhyssKrb9— Alison Agosti (@AlisonAgosti) October 17, 2019
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
Why even both to review a video game if you're not gonna New-Yorker it up?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
lol, can't wait to read the segue
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
Since everybody's letting out their frustrations with prestige publications failing to give credit, I thought I'd share my own most recent experience: @cduhigg's XXXL piece on Amazon in the @NewYorker this week.https://t.co/dRHqfp6pVN— Emily Guendelsberger (@emilygee) October 18, 2019
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 19 October 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
yeah i kinda wondered about that, as there have been several journalists to work in amazon centers
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 October 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
liked the fraudulent cybersecurity firm story
bonus sewickley content for quincie
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 October 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
Oh I have not read that yet!Sewickley so much better than Upper St. Clair tbrr
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
This New York article about Conde Nast is pretty great. It's about the whole company, but there's plenty of info about things in New Yorker-world.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 01:09 (four years ago) link
That was awesome thank you
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil-in-narendra-modis-india
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
yeah just started that last night
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELnEScmWoAICrAW?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
at least they don't put him in print
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 12 December 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
I just came across that old Damon Baehrel / fraud article ( i see spoken about upthread) because his 'restaurant' showed up on a new list of hardest reservations in the US. I don't understand so much about this. Also the Dept of Health doesn't have to do inspections?
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/damon-baehrel-the-most-exclusive-restaurant-in-america
― Yerac, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
I am reading random blog posts about this restaurant too and it seems highly likely he's refilling wine bottles...which ...gross.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
The Mary south fiction piece this week is really good , will be Reading her collection when it comes out
― calstars, Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:00 (four years ago) link
xpost hmm i found a semi recent health inspection and liquor license so this is all even more confusing.
― Yerac, Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:52 (four years ago) link
I went back and read that article too, it's unusual to publish an article with a bunch of speculation and loose ends, and just be like "here's all the shit we couldn't successfully fact-check", isn't it?
It's definitely intriguing, but what are the options here? On one end of the scale he's a weirdo but making exactly the food he claims to make, and lying about the scale and celebrity of his diners (either out of compulsion or desire to build a buzz)? On the other, it's some sort of scheme to make a foodie fantasyland and cash in on locavore + auteur chef trends, and he (or someone else, or a staff of people) is preparing high-end food out of 'normal' ingredients offsite and the whole setup is a sham?
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
he seems to have a gap in the very few online reviews (right around after the article came out) and I could see subtle things of where he looks like he may have stopped the shadier business practices. I don't know. I watched some interviews with him and he is definitely odd.
My main annoyance with something like that is that it's so hard to run a successful and lucrative restaurant that this supper club that only does a handful of seatings a month... I wish reviewers would stop putting him on restaurant lists and giving free publicity when it could go to a restaurant that serves more than 4 people in a week.
― Yerac, Monday, 3 February 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
the new jill lepore book about nationalism is very good. it's a brisk 160 pages. purely as a prose stylist, i like her very much btw: "Writing national history creates plenty of problems, but not writing national history creates more problems, and those problems are worse."
her audiobooks are great. she reads them, and she does "pompous ass" voices when she quotes people she doesn't like.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 16 February 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
lol heroic
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 16 February 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
The new one about the rich guy bankrolling a bespoke submersible so he could be the first person to dive to the deepest point in all five oceans was some fantastic old-school, David Grann-esque NY-er escapism. So many ridiculous details.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
yeah, i don't have tons of time for nyer Adventurer pieces, but this one was fun
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that was a great read, one of my recent favorites.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
^^^agree.
I like imagining that pieces like this are actually fiction. Well what I really want is fiction written to be a dead ringer for a NYer article.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
can someone post a link? i can't find it easily
― na (NA), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/thirty-six-thousand-feet-under-the-sea
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
thanks
― na (NA), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
some interesting stuff in the fiction issue, emma cline fictionalizes harvey weinstein's don delillo delusion & an unpublished hemingway work
― johnny crunch, Friday, 5 June 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
Boy ... my wife had left a stack of New Yorker's for me to sort and discard, and wow, what a (sad) trip that was. As old as 2015, right up to the last few weeks, in random order. I would just flip through the table of contents and think, ok, this is pre-Trump, this is post-Covid, and so on. And one after the other I could just not bring myself to be interested in reading any of them, not even the stuff that was interesting. Just really underscored how absolutely exhausting, enervating the last few years have been, hurtling forward so fast that focusing on even the most recent past seems almost impossible.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 June 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
if i had that stack i'd probably just read the classical music-related bits.
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 18 June 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
I specifically scanned the movie reviews in the table of contents (tables of content?) to help date each issue, and it felt like stumbling across a time capsule. I just skimmed an article about the Apatow/Feig casting director, and it talks about casting the "Ghostbusters" reboot, which, per another thread, I forgot existed, but which it's still hard to believe was only four years ago.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 June 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
I read more of the fiction issue than I have in awhile
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 18 June 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
i'm perpetually 6 months behind with the NYRB and i get the same feeling with their politics articles. someone spent weeks of their life on this article and with the benefit of hindsight it was based on totally faulty premises about what would happen. every single time.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 18 June 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
(Ugh, just noticed I put an apostrophe in "New Yorker's." I'm not sure I've ever done that before, and it's super ironic that I should do it when writing the name of that particular magazine. I blame the beer, a delicious hazy DIPA from Revolution which is perfect for the weather.)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 June 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
I changed my approach in 2004. I read *so many* NYer articles about Kerry and the election, all (retrospectively) total wastes of time.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 18 June 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
reporting the news is just a mistake all around
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Friday, 19 June 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
especially that "what will happen in a month" type feature-writing reporting. We'll find out! Relax!
caek you could just save time by not reading tomasky in the first place
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 June 2020 08:38 (three years ago) link
I skip them all! I only read the reviews of academic press books I will never read
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
I only read it for the European Beret advert.
― Sam Weller, Friday, 19 June 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
zoom dick incident
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 October 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link