New Yorker magazine alert thread

'on and off the avenue'

i complain about it every 6 mos or so

That's about how often it gets published anyway

i also have never noticed the shopping column (is it in the happenings section?) either, for a second i thought you weirdos were referring to surowiecki.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/08/081208fa_fact_marx

btw whats up w their urls too

hey joe theres a fn basketball game on

ya im sort of watching

i also have never noticed the shopping column (is it in the happenings section?) either, for a second i thought you weirdos were referring to surowiecki.

― balls, Sunday, August 12, 2012 11:17 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It only comes around now and then. It's in with the feature articles I think

they usually run 'on and off the avenue' in the spring and in the late fall during xmas shopping season. it would be useful article if a) i wanted to know where in manahattan i could buy $350 salad servers and b) that answer to that wasnt 'p much anywhere'.

i do kinda want to know what REAL nyers think of the 'table for two' reviews theyve been doin lately tho

i've only eaten at one of those, i think -- neither the review nor my experience were very good.

i suspect dmr/max/dan are your go-to dudes

theyve been doing table for two forever haven't they? I don't have much of an opinion really, no better or worse than any other food writing in this city

yeah its probably about as old as the magazine its more that when i lived there it just seemed to be solely the purview of like nick paumgarten, wire fan and kinda terrible but lately it seems to cover more interesting places and be a little better or more interestingly written?

but i mean ive eaten at like one of the last half dozen or so places theyve reviewed so idk how reliable it actually is and was curious i guess

have u eaten @ lady gagas parents restaurant? that review just seemed otm

i actually like those lil table for 2s

- fiction (can't stand it in columns)

lol what!

probably meaning that NYer three column format--not ideal for fiction, at least for people used to reading it in books

i've eaten at a few table for two places both before and after reviews. it's sorta an easy way to find a hot restaurant i guess?

didn't know the new yorker yelped

at least they know enough to say 'people WHO yelp are a bunch of fucking savages'

saväges

jüst sö

- fiction (can't stand it in columns)

lol what!

― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Sunday, August 12, 2012 8:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

probably meaning that NYer three column format--not ideal for fiction, at least for people used to reading it in books

― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, August 12, 2012 9:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this

things i never read in the nyer:

- fiction (can't stand it in columns)

haha this bothers me too -- something about the format is distracting in a 'DON'T FORGET YOU ARE READING THE NEW YORKER' kind of way.

i like columns, you fold your magazine into a reading tube

whatever next, longform bibles

I had a friend who used to work at the New Yorker, and when they moved offices a few years back a lot of the staff was gifted stacks of old issues from the archives. My friend pointed out that as much as people like to bitch about the mag's layout, or especially its commercialization or whatever under Brown or even Remnick, it used to be so much worse! Like, 20 page stories on nothing with, like, ads running down the middle of the page and stuff. Total mess. I suppose anyone with one of those impossible to navigate Complete New Yorker collections can see for themselves how much more user friendly it has become.

- fiction (can't stand it in columns)

lol what!

― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Sunday, August 12, 2012 8:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

probably meaning that NYer three column format--not ideal for fiction, at least for people used to reading it in books

― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, August 12, 2012 9:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 13 August 2012 00:34 (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i understood this and my post was not 1 of confusion but of disbelief at such a particular or petty reason (not that nyer fiction is worth reading anyways but)

would u read a really skinny book??

ew NO

it made me angry but i liked the cadence of it and it was really engrossing although i wonder if everyone in boston isnt a racist they just realized that the narrator was a total piece of shit

― Lamp, Saturday, 11 August 2012 13:31 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya word asked because i am a fan of the writer but kind of hated this story and iirc there was another one with a similarly repulsive narrator, now wondering if the author is just such a shithead? i loved his novel, even the parts narrated by the sisters bf, but idk if i can get down with this level of depravity. like the way he justs lists girls is so dehumanizing, and i get that that's the point but then like, even more fully fleshed out characters made me feel the same way

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/16/andy_borowitz_not_funny/

pareene otm

not a fan of adam gopnik and his review of some books on mormonism is typically glib but tacked on the end is a riff on mitt romney that however obvious seems otm. basically he says romney is driven less by religious righteousness than good ol' yuppie entitlement, that he sees financial success as proof of his virtue. gopnik sorta ties this in w/mormonism but i recognized in the few non-mormon rich folks i know. not all, but some people who become wealthy start to think 'hey i must be pretty special' - not profound but more insightful than i expected from gopnik.

LOL the solemnity/earnestness of the 60mins profile embedded in that Salon takedown...^

Next week is the, urgh, Swimsuit Issue.

trying to imagine the conversation between gawande and the cheesecake factory PR rep
"so you want to compare us to health care... as a favorable alternative? I... I'm really gonna have to talk to my supervisor about this..."

did that piece turn out to have any value? Cause as soon as I saw where it was going I was like DNW.

it was readable but i mostly just like his style. can't really rep for it.

swimsuit issue apparently has William Finnegan on surfing, so that's at least one positive for me

how do you guys have 'next week's new yorker' underground info

i thought every week was a pre-vice-presidential-candidate-announcement effort to generate suspense

they tweeted abt the finnegan story

ty. gonna keep my ear to the ground.

Also announced on their blog.

i am david remnick

thought iatee was david remnick

i am iatee

gasp!

In hindsight a month later, funny that the giant Ben Stiller profile was kn the occasion of The Watch.