New Yorker magazine alert thread

60 bucks a year for digital or print. 47 issues. someone do math.

kindle subscription was just 36 bucks a year until now

I've considered it but I think I'd have a lot of unread New Yorkers lying around if I had a subscription, and I already have a lot of unread things lying around. But I will consider it!

ilxor who once said a subscription makes you feel like a very urbane hobo OTM for all time.

it definitely detracts from me reading anything else (/novels full stop) but i've come to terms with choosing breadth (of subjects, at least) over depth by now, so. i spent a while agonising over whether to subscribe (getting an international subscription, which are slightly dearer), but i think it's so worth it. i'd probably pay the same over now just to get it in a more timely fashion (argument in favour of digital subscription).

i got two years for $50 almost two years ago, but i don't suppose i'll be able to renew that cheaply

xpost i used to have that problem until kindle (several issues completely unread, piling up cuz there'd be one piece i definitely wanted to read), now i'd guess i read at least 70% of every week.

i keep up with the nyer but am getting buried by the nyrb

i have still not got w/ereaders &c but i do like having paper copies. they're cool, portable lazy things to give to people, to leave in their bathrooms & stuff.

$25 for a year's print subscription. I accepted long ago that The New Yorker isn't meant to be read entirely; some issues serve a purely decorative value.

It helps when I read both the NYROB and New Yorker at the library at lunch so I'm not swamped on weekeknds.

yeah something like a lunchbreak or a commute is pretty essential for getting through a bunch of the issue, even on a daily basis, so you can read a long article in chunks or zip through all the talk of the town stuff

Nyrb is impossible for me to keep up with, but i do keep within three weeks on nyorker generally.

I can't think of many of subscriptions totally worth their price, though. I did lock myself into three years of "Wired" for something like $9 a year. That's an awesome deal for top notch casual reading.

i feel like i started a "what magazines do you subscribe to" thread a zillion years ago.

I accepted long ago that The New Yorker isn't meant to be read entirely

Finally did this and feel like a burden has been lifted. All these books I get to read now!! It does suck reading all these ACA/supreme court articles knowing the final outcome.

I still don't understand why there hasn't been more euro crisis coverage -- seems like perfect fodder for their style.

I just found a copy of E.B. White's collected essays in a trash box in my building. The prose is so perfect and the content is so boring.

otm abt the lack of euro crisis stuff, so weird

http://i.imgur.com/dsy5s.jpg

Yeah but they have frequent articles about the middle east, latin america, and actually europe only not about what's going on in europe right now afaict

feel like they've had like 100 articles about euro crisis stuff in the past year?

there was an article about the situation in greece recently

Was there? A full-length piece or just a TOTT thing or Suriowiecki short? Cause I would like to read a feature-length NYer piece on Greece.

i feel like it was full-length but i can't find it now

oh shit

this is embarrassing

just realized i was thinking of a "this american life" piece

:(

he is human

They got there early:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_parker

oh man, this grann thing on the american commander in the cuban revolution is FASCINATING

i can see george clooney making a movie out of that article.

which issue was that!!! what was on the cover.

5/28 - cover was college grads in gowns floating on chunks of ice

what do y'all think of Menand's review of Brinkley's Cronkite bio? I like the irreverence. Dunno what his name means to people who didn't grow up with him (I was six when he retired).

douglas brinkely's a bit of a hack in general so enjoy any means of taking him down; not sure if the cronkite (or murrow) myth is really that alive - i've seen plenty of 'actually' challops pieces about both, spurred by good night and good luck and cronkite's passing. barely old enough to actually remember watching cronkite, not sure if what he meant or what he said to have meant can be conveyed in anyway to someone for whom jennings/brokaw/rather are ancient memories. there's a great moment cronkite figures into very heavily in gerard jones' men of tomorrow that kind of captures what we lost when that kind of hegemony went away for better or worse.

Like this:

http://coacheshotseat.com/coacheshotseatblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/RonaldReaganJoke.jpg

a boyish gergen

a stoutish Meese.

occurs to me i only know one of the current network nightly news anchors (allison williams dad). haven't watched tv news since bernie shaw 'retired'.

I still watch the 6:30 news if I'm home (no cable thank god). Gotta admit: Peter Jennings was the only one of the Big Three who struck me as a genuinely erudite man, the only one I watched. Dunno how true the former is.

i liked jennings also. i didn't watch him but i do miss rather being out there, threatening to reveal the truth about the lizard ppl or to walk off the set cuz tennis went long or routinely doing stuff like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Huyn9itzIw

I thought the genetically modified mosquito story was weirdly scary.

Turned to the long article that asked whether Afghanistan was doomed to civil war when the US pulls out, and thought, you know, I don't care how well written or researched this piece is, is there really some debate as to whether this notoriously unstable country would descend into civil war the second we leave, assuming it technically is not in such a state already? Has anyone read it? Is there more to the piece than prose? Similarly, I started the TED piece from the same article, and struggled before I threw in the towel on that one, too. Snooze.

haha i found it weirdly scary also but perhaps from a different place than you? (were you coming from a 'dear god this country is runover w/ antiscience lunatics and sadly the right doesn't have a monopoly on them?' angle)(echoes of the raw milk story from a few weeks back).

haven't read TED piece but vaguely curious as that phenomenon creeps me out and i'm not sure why. also amazed that seth macfarlane didn't do a viral ted TED talk (eh? EH?) but maybe there isn't much overlap in audiences there.

that mosquito scheme has always been a dream of mine *sniff*

tho they need to take it one step further and have the defect not show up for a few generations so that all the mosquitos are infected and die forever, the way it is now if they dont keep seeding the bad eggs the natural mosquitos will eventually make a comeback

tho i guess thats where people get worried having genetically modified mosquitos biting them and all, but come on any risk is worth it to eradicate mosquitos!

Peter Jennings was the only one of the Big Three who struck me as a genuinely erudite man, the only one I watched.

Ironic, since he was also the only high school dropout of those guys.

also reminded of this - http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-bug-spray-forces-insects-to-see-people-as-huma,7013/

I was scared in the "Jurassic Park" sense: releasing genetically modified insects into the wild, particularly insects know for efficiently spreading disease and killing millions, sounds scary. I kept thinking of all the other famous cases of introducing animals (let alone inventing animals) to an environment to solve a problem but ultimately causing more problems; does this ever work right? Anyway, as I read it, I was constantly struck with dread, like, in 10 years, when we're all dying of the mutant mosquito plague, we'll be citing this article.

(Im a big fan of a previous New Yorker mosquito article, the one about DDT, which basically illustrated how close we were to eradicating mosquitos and malaria until the release of "Silent Spring." Sort of the flipside of this article: there was never any proof that DDT was particularly dangerous, especially compared to the demonstrably massively lethal malaria, but western fears of the potential food chain damage of DDT put the kibosh on the mosquito holocaust)

the mosquito project seems v well thought out and safe, the risk is a slippery slope where introducing mutant creatures becomes common place and then one day someone fucks up, but w/e its inevitable might as well have a few mosquito free years before we all succumb to hedgehog fever