lepore piece reminded me of creationist 'takedowns', too lazy to have even a passing familiarity w/ what it's attacking, too smug to be bothered, eventual collapse into corny end of movie declaration of love for god/humanity/the easter bunny. she doesn't pretend to actually have any ideas though so she's better than yr gladwells i guess.
― balls, Saturday, 21 June 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
balls disruption
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 June 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/30/140630fa_fact_toobin?currentPage=all&mobify=0
the usual toobin caveats apply, but worth reading
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
I enjoyed the Rebecca Curtis story in the current issue.
― o. nate, Thursday, 26 June 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
The article about private probation companies is the best reporting I've read this year.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 June 2014 12:02 (nine years ago) link
That's Sarah Stillman, who also reported last year's piece on civil forfeiture. Her book, whenever it comes, will be a doozy.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
that's cool, the latter def reminded me of the former but had no idea they were connected or noticed they were by the same writer
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
oh looking forward to reading that then
― k3vin k., Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
yeah she is killing it. the pieces feel just so diligently & patiently reported, some of their weight elicited by just understanding how everyday this shit is. there are a couple of notes about the degree to which this kinda practice (ditto civil forfeiture; she wrote another before that kinda in the same vein, too, iirc) is a consequence of weird rightist anti-tax movements, but she doesn't even soapbox too hard, just lays it on you.
― schlump, Friday, 27 June 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
I liked the Chilean miner article.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
jack handy piece is great
― schlump, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 03:27 (nine years ago) link
I'm starting to think that Peter Schjeldahl is the worst critic on the NYer staff, and there is some pretty stiff competition in that department.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
I'd missed this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/business/media/the-new-yorker-alters-its-online-strategy.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
― toby, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:41 (nine years ago) link
The New Yorker said that it was making the change from a position of strength, after having its most profitable year in decades in 2013.
this is pretty wild!
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
i wish their old articles were truly online... don't get me wrong, i dig the scanned ads and pics and everything, but they'd be so much more convenient if they were set in actual text you could instapaper/copy&paste etc. i say this as a paying subscriber
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:13 (nine years ago) link
Agreed. Don't see any evidence they're about to do that (although presumably they could - I would imagine that when they scanned the old articles they OCRed them at the same time?).
― toby, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
who knows? They must have done the scans at least 9 years ago, since that's when they released the Complete New Yorker on CD-ROMs
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
True. Certainly some of the old articles have been OCRed, as they put them up sometimes (e.g. when people die). But I have no sense of how automated the process is - quite possibly they have to be edited by hand after processing, which would make doing all the old articles a bit of a nightmare.
― toby, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
i rarely read the fiction, but def recommend this week's -- greg Jackson - wagner in the desert
and found this Q&A w/ him, im not surprised he admits dfw's influence, and has even recently taught a course abt him
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/07/this-week-in-fiction-greg-jackson.html
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
I liked the article about the Atlanta school cheating on standardized testing this week.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
^^^ yeah that was good. Much better than this terrible self-published book from a former Teach for America dude who taught in New Orleans, and who noted similar testing, er, "irregularities."
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
I meant to say that I ended up reading that terrible self-published book because he was the college roommate of a cousin of one of the women in one of my book clubs. The book club that is reading Mindy Kaling's book for this month. This book club is a hilarious contrast to my other book club, where we read David Copperfield and shit.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518y4mFeNFL._SL500_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
lol it took me a minute to remember the dickens tbh. i was kinda like 'wait - is mindy kaling supposedly a more intellectual writer than david copperfield?'
and omg i just saw that that book is more original fiction, thinking of the 'you like fiction books?' part in they came together and thinking 'eh, maybe i don't'.
― balls, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
Haha I am totally going to pitch that for the Mindy Kaling book club's next read. I had no idea.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
Enjoyed the Chilean miner and Stephen Crane pieces. I knew next to nothing about Crane so it was a blast.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
the chilean miner one was insane
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
the rock that caused the collapse was the size of a FORTY FIVE STORY BUILDING
"the chilean miner one" is such a platonic ideal description of a new yorker article
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure that i'm reducing if not fully misrepresenting this, but, just re: setting articles into text: i think the nyer's maybe a little constrained by copyright? iirc there's a weird stipulation in us copyright law that means that the thing the new yorker owns of its archive is the layout of the words on the page - so the product they assembled using an author's writing - & that the thing they're able to freely reproduce is this rather than the text itself. i feel like they were probably pretty heavy hitting in getting the rights to pieces back in the day, so maybe they have the text rights as well, but i think with a lot of other printed matter this is the obstacle preventing mass republication.
― schlump, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
prose in the chilean miner piece was so wild. like i didn't know anybody wrote like that anymore. i loved getting like a quarter of the way through & realising the author ~wasn't going to take you out of the mine~.
― schlump, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
that's interesting re:copyright. It makes sense that the New Yorker doesn't own, say, John Hersey's Hiroshima .
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
i think the fact that there are other ny-er-specific licensing things going on makes it extra complicated - or i guess less complicated - because there probably is stuff that they either can print or can print without much hassle. so maybe they would own hiroshima in some ways, idk. but i think it is a thing.
― schlump, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
the chilean minor one was intensely well done
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
the oakland tech industry piece felt like it was somehow written while the author was in a state of facepalm
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
letter from san francisco or w/e it's called is really fun for the last year or so. it's kinda the exact same topic & the exact same raised nyer eyebrows of doubt every time, i like it.
― schlump, Thursday, 17 July 2014 04:20 (nine years ago) link
i loved getting like a quarter of the way through & realising the author ~wasn't going to take you out of the mine
Yeah, it was a good decision to focus on that part of it. Feel like I would read a book about this by this author.
― o. nate, Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
Really hideous responsive site redesign today: http://www.newyorker.com
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 21 July 2014 11:21 (nine years ago) link
Nice that everything's free for the summer though.
― o. nate, Monday, 21 July 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
it looks fine to me
― k3vin k., Monday, 21 July 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
It’s, Like, O.K. The Way Teens TalkBY ADAM GOPNIK
Kids who use lots of qualifiers are conscientious.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 July 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
i mean..... adam. adam adam adam adam. can you stop writing? at all? starting now? PLEASE
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 July 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
gdamn ronda rousey has a good publicist
― johnny crunch, Monday, 21 July 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
i don't like the redesign either. every site goes for the same look.
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 21 July 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
yikes that redesign is weird
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Paleo diet article was good
― calstars, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
a lot of good stuff lately, e.g. the one about the civil rights act and old-school feminists
also the one about the atlanta teaching scandal
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
yeah i enjoyed the men and one
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
lol n/h, the menand one
the sad thing about the atlanta teaching scandal is after investigation/prosecuting atlanta administrators and teachers for cheating, the state is instituting statewide THE SAME POLICIES THAT LED TO THE CHEATING IN THE FIRST PLACE
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link