New Yorker magazine alert thread

or for instance if i am away from my apt for an extended period of time and cannot read my issue in print

just get w/ the times NYer srsly

I dont like: no downloading in the background, how each poem listing section etc gets its own spot in the line up kinda clogs up the feed, how large the file sizes are I already had to archive a couple but why, i was listing to an author read a story which is a nice lil feature but when I accidentally swiped away there was no way to restart the audio from where I left off like no lil slider thing at all, feel like the drop down toc isn't descriptive enough like im never sure what the articles are abt could use sub titles, and other stuff like that that could use some refining

no downloading in the background

This might be Adobe's fault (it's built on the Adobe Digital Editions platform, and iirc no ADE apps do auto-downloads) <-- could be 100% wrong on every level

how each poem listing section etc gets its own spot in the line up kinda clogs up the feed

I'm happy to put that down to them learning how best to lay it out (same goes for the right-running text and left-running white space).

how large the file sizes are I already had to archive a couple but why

Yeah I agree, 120–150 Mb per edition is pretty piss-poor. No excuse for that when most of the edition is text and line drawings.

there was no way to restart the audio from where I left off like no lil slider thing at all
feel like the drop down toc isn't descriptive enough like im never sure what the articles are abt could use sub titles

Agreed, in fact you are making me angry with Condé Nast ffs

:)

Okay now I can see how much this app sucks, but I stand by my original point i.e. that it's one of the best publications on the app store. There's some absolute dross out there, most of which either crashes routinely or is just an exact replication of the print edition.

i think the side scroll between articles and then the vertical scrolling to dip into the articles layout concept is p ingenious, like i find myself unconsciously visualizing the whole thing, maybe other magazines use that too idk this is my only ipad subscription - and the typography is good, it v easy to read - like i said the details just need some refinement

i think the side scroll between articles and then the vertical scrolling to dip into the articles layout concept is p ingenious, like i find myself unconsciously visualizing the whole thing

Yeah, that's the Adobe Digital Editions format. Properly briliant. All the Condé Nasts use it, as well as National Geographic and a few others.

Did anyone else find Remnick's review of the latest Obama book sort of ... self-serving in its snide dismissals? Maybe someone who hadn't written their own premature account of the Obamas might have been a better choice?

Just wanted to rep hard for Acocella's dance articles, love those. (But then, I barely know anything about dance.)

Also, I read it almost cover-to-cover -- even the lol theatre reviews -- the only things I regularly skip are the fiction, S&M, and poems. I rarely ever skip a full-on feature, the last two to my mind are IKEA and the execrable David Brooks one.

the latest shouts and murmurs abt romney meeting people is p funny

haven't read it but it is never funny

remember that like, spectrum of gayness one a month or two back? what the hell was that

ya agree re: the romney 1; it was trillin i think, & more brief than usual, i think i smirked or something, home run for s&m

haha i was reading that on the train today, it wasnt funny but it managed 'amusing'.

gopnik's piece on histories of the spanish inquisition is both bizarrely high-handed and scattershot. its somewhat of a feat to have the worst piece in an issue w/ an on and off the ave article

Yknow what the romney thing WAS kinda funny

I'm not sure how amenable you all are to old article alerts but this one about North Korea:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/07/12/100712fa_fact_demick

Written by Barbara Demick, who also wrote an incredible book about North Korea a couple of years ago. This article is 18 months old, but it throws up an interesting perspective of Kim Jong-eun, and of course it's beautifully written.

v amenable to old article alerts btw, the never particularly active 'what should i read in the nyer archives' thread was a goldmine

i have the demick book sat on my shelf, maybe i should read my way into it via the article

You must. The book is more a series of narratives based on factual accounts, but every bit as absorbing.

btw this week's youtube piece is everything we already know about youtube, but packaged concisely and within the context of a changing broadcast industry. I hate the end of that last sentence but got sick of trying to reword it so

utube piece was ok, can't wait to see how awful all the shows turn out

The Jay-Z lifestyle station! Shaq TV!

utube piece was ok, can't wait to see how awful all the shows turn out

― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 January 2012 04:56 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

If recent Google initiatives are any indication, this is otm

the shows are gonna be awful no doubt but considering what awful stuff is popular on youtube it still might 'succeed'

for the little chunk of change they dropped (in google terms), they just need like one annoying orange success to make this thing worthwhile

hahahahaha yes

something like the creative success of "autotune the news"

i dunno how paid the gregory brothers are but it's clearly doing well enough for them that they don't need a day job

youtube piece really annoyed me, using "they're turning away from user-generated content!" as bait and then not really backing it up. it's not like people aren't going to be able to post cat videos.

cat videos are illegal under SOPA fyi

any rebroadcast, reproduction or other use of this content without the express written consent of cats is prohibited

i'm actually still half a page away from finishing it but the elif batuman piece on the hunter gatherer monuments, from the last double issue, is amazing, huh

talk of the town david cross piece is super bizarre

David cross is sort of disturbing

All I know is that the issue with a whopping four pieces I read was followed by an issue where barely anything appealed to me: youtube, on and off the avenue, Remnick review, S F-J stupid essay ... is the LA mogul piece any good? Egyptian novelist?

I liked the la mogul piece

next issue is out on the ipad

next issue is an ipad

free ipad

those shoplifting charges are bogus its true

Huh, I thought the L.A. mogul piece was a bit boilerplate, perhaps inevitable given its subject hasn't sat down for an interview in decades. Still, I'm always fascinated/scared by these powerful behind the scenes players whose money/influence literally permeates nearly every facet of society.

main thing i learned from the gingrich article this week: his first wife was his high school geometry teacher!?!?

It was so Ron Swanson.

LA Mogul is the AEG guy?

Wow the Don Bosco article is a tour de force. I'm still not done with it, but I don't think an article has ever made me feel such a potent mixture of admiration and utter horror.

xpost Yeah, AEG guy, who doesn't do interviews and is a conservative Christian. For some reason it just felt like a story I've read several times over the course of the past few years.

got all geared up for a bitchy hatchet job on callista gingrich but that article illustrated what happens when you have a non-cooperative (and essentially boring) subject

shouldve just been 10 full pages of portraits of he frozen real doll face

I want to say the current issue is at least the second and maybe the third in recent memory to feature an author overview that focuses on the writing of explicit sex scenes. In other words, this is two issues in a row that I'd consider a bust, unless the piece about the guy trying to save a breed of endangered turtle is worthwhile.

i agree, i skipped most of the articles in the last couple of issues. although oddly shouts & murmurs was again at least amusing this week - your basic outsourcing/foreigners jokes but by gary shteyngart who at least is a little weird and funny.

sorry i said at least so many times

main thing i learned from the gingrich article this week: his first wife was his high school geometry teacher!?!?

I thought I had totally missed this detail until I got the magazine last night and realized that you were talking about the Gingrich article in this week's issue (focusing on Callista), rather than the one from two weeks ago (focusing on Newt).

(Anyone think that the New Yorker jumped the gun about six weeks ago, when Newt was leading the polls, and assigned both of those pieces with the assumption that his campaign would be doing better than it is?)