New Yorker magazine alert thread

$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.

haha joe

xxxp yeah i liked it ok...i generally like franzens fiction but not really his non-fic; he def jazzed it up & had a legit point but i was v much groaning at his blackberry/Blackberry analogy

Did anyone else notice one of the entrants to this week's caption contest?
ha, yeah. gonna assume that it's THE roger ebert?
Franzen essay was excellent despite some of the cringiness.

Oh yeah, I cringed a couple of times, plus the whole conceit started out a little "oh, poor life of famous author on the road" (not at all to take away from losing a friend) for me, but it was still a good read.

only so many r eberts in chicago i'd imagine

ipad app dece?

it is him. he posted about it on his blog: he's been trying to get into the finals round for years and years

his caption wasn't that good iirc

no it wasn't.
cartoon was a pair of people standing in the middle of a wasteland under a mall parking lot sign with an "F" on it and Ebert has the woman saying "Guess which word I'm thinking of now."
har har
video games aren't art btw

ipad app dece?

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it's ok, pricey, would be better if you got access with a subscription. i just loaded it up to check the price of each issue when i saw that "remnick on remnick" gaffe.

"That might play big in Chicago, but the New Yorker has a different set of standards."

xp

"we prefer film critics with senses of humor, ebert. you know, like david denby."

lol

tbf anthony lane used to be kind of funny

lane is kinda funny, but i don't think he's that great a film critic

he's very funny!

I haven't actually read a Lane review in a while but some of his takedowns of hollywood blockbusters are classic. It can feel a little cheap though.

whole travel issue was pretty enjoyable imo. the astana and chinese people touring europe articles in particular