New Yorker magazine alert thread

i wish grann had used the whole quote but this is BS:

Now that is a way different exit picture than the one Grann painted for us. Not only were Willingham's very last words the diametric opposite of the high-toned, religious sentiments Grann led us to believe were the very last, but they bear on one of the most difficult things to comprehend about this case -- motive. Why would a father intentionally burn up his baby girls?

Well, as incomprehensible as it seems, we know that some fathers do kill their young children, and anger at the mother is one common reason. If that tirade was directed at his ex-wife Stacy, as the reporter who was there believed it was, it helps fill in the motive.

yes all of granns meticulous reporting and evidence for innonce, proven wrong by the profane rantings of a man condemned to die

max otm

2/3rds of the way through the Rosenberg article. Holy shit. All I want to know is when is the Tony Gilroy movie version coming out?

Yeah, that Rosenberg article was an amazing read.

yeah, again grann lives up to the cliche "stranger than fiction"!

I meant to read just a couple of pages of the Rosenberg article at lunch and wound up finishing the thing in one go. The magazine is on an incredible roll. I wonder if its circulation and subscription figures have remained steady; I'd imagine it hasn't lost much of its urban liberal base.

Woah, those last words. Talk about changing tack halfway through.

Yeah. The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man -- convicted of a crime I did not commit. I have been persecuted for 12 years for something I did not do. From God's dust I came and to dust I will return -- so the earth shall become my throne. I gotta go, road dog. I love you Gabby. I hope you rot in hell, bitch; I hope you fucking rot in hell, bitch. You bitch; I hope you fucking rot, cunt. That is it.

think it's noted in this thread but $50 or so for a year's subscription is a ridiculous deal. and i don't even take advantage of the online archives very much.

I got the "educator's discount" last August: $32 then.

you monster

lol that quote is killing me... lord, why have you forsaken me? ride or die bitch fuck cunt booger.

I meant to read just a couple of pages of the Rosenberg article at lunch and wound up finishing the thing in one go. The magazine is on an incredible roll. I wonder if its circulation and subscription figures have remained steady; I'd imagine it hasn't lost much of its urban liberal base.

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im pretty sure theyve risen since remnick took over; the really amazing figure is that the mag has a resubscribe rate of near 90%

that rosenberg article is insane

had read the chameleon and the art piece before, the arson was new but had never really picked up name of author

need to renew my subscription

I got the "educator's discount" last August: $32 then.

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$25/year for the last 2 years, suckers

but i get them 3 or 4 weeks late, even the newstands here get them a week ahead of me somehow

I get the "my mom buys me a subscription" discount.

$0/year for 8+ years

that's how to live.

UK sub is something like £120 (or maybe $120, I forget which) but still worth it.

$25/year for the last 2 years, suckers

^^^yesss

at some point during the rodrigo rosenberg article i actually wondered if it was leading up to an april fool's joke

guys, guys - let's not allow a few pieces of meticulously researched and tautly written long-form journalism obscure the reams of smug forgettable shit in this monthly publication

Patricia Marx to thread.

It's weekly BTW

haha yes. which is kind of a miracle actually

$25/year for the last 2 years, suckers

Let's poll the subscription options.

I, like everyone else, accumulate daunting piles of New Yorkers, because each issue has so much I want to read. Then I wait for a vacation and bring along five or six issues. They're light and disposable, and I can discard them (or give them away, or leave them behind) wherever I happen to finish them. Perfect for airplanes, waiting rooms and hotels. Each issue is like a great little anthology.

guys, guys - let's not allow a few pieces of meticulously researched and tautly written long-form journalism obscure the reams of smug forgettable shit in this monthly publication

Oh, good ol' reliable ilx, always someone coming along to rain on the parade.

patricia marx writes what like... six articles a year?

the nyer critics are probably 3/4s unbearable but the rest of the stuff is consistently great, incl. talk of the town

i've been finding the ny'er amazingly un-smug lately, i guess except for that insane david brooks article that i couldn't even finish.

tbh & i say this as a fan i think the NYer house style w/ its long-form pieces is too straight & bland to be "smug"

Adam Gopnik's pretty smug but I agree that the house style mostly avoids that pitfall.

Enjoyed the Tunisia feature in the same issue as the Grann one.

ive given up on "shouts and murmurs"

lioke even if someone who's opinion i respect tells me there's a good one i should read i refuse to on principle

oh yeah haha i forgot about shouts and murmurs in my estimation of the nyers smugness, probably because i never, ever read it

basically i check to see if its jack handey and if its not i skip

I cannot face shouts & murmurs ever. I also never read the short fiction, cards on table.

What is the Rosenberg story everyone is talking abt? Starting to worry that I misplaced an issue...

It's in last week's issue and also online:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_grann

Oh cool, got that one already, been saving it.

George RR Martin profile in the current ish was hella depressing. Fans are not good people.

oh yeah shouts and murmurs blows obv

The short fiction is hit or miss, but I liked the Murakami story they re-ran in the Japan issue.

yeah i read the martin profile last night -- don't know anything about the guy, but yeeesh. his fans! definitely a good book or something to be written (if it hasn't been written already) about modern fandom, and how the internet has mucked everything up.

It's rly rly weird psychologically and the GRRM profile is far from the first time I have noticed it; basically, Fans with a capital F have this weird seething RAGE toward the creators of the narratives they want. Like this impotent rage. The creator(s) don't even have to be late on delivery of new work like GRRM has been, the Fans just are constantly teetering between deification and hatred of those who CONTROL "their" characters. There DOES need to be a new book abt it because the internet has exacerbated it severely.

i still read the fiction every week but it's kind of depressing how far its fallen off. i remember back in the early to mid 00's when they had authors like munro, edward jones, murakami, jhumpa lahiri, etc in constant rotation. there's still a quality story now and then but it's much less frequent. i do really like the fiction podcast from the website tho.

http://www.slate.com/id/2290801/

all aboard the grann wagon

groann

Started Lost City of Z and seriously, crack on paper.

Did anyone else notice one of the entrants to this week's caption contest?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/826480/Photo%20Apr%2019%2C%209%2057%2002%20PM.jpg

from the ipad edition, remnick's latest sounds like a must-read.

I feel like there are a few Franzen haters around here, but I'm surprised to find myself enjoying his article about the island, Robin Crusoe, and DFW.

read that malcolm x thing yesterday. it was aight.

its just a book review.