New Yorker magazine alert thread

- 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.

who reads that stuff?

kinda like the big anna faris profile ahead of what's your number?

Yep.

Also this week, new Jane Mayer:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/27/120827fa_fact_mayer

Wonder if she'll combine this with her Koch Bros. profile for a bok on billionaires and politics.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/03/120903fa_fact_widdicombe?currentPage=all

I found this inneresting

he's kinda zuckerbergian

After that top 40 hitmakers piece, we get two more how the pop sausage is made pieces: the Bieber bro and the One Direction bros. One more article like those and I think I'm all set to dominate the top 40.

the piece about the violinist is surprisingly good

ooh thanks for reminding me to read that one

it made me actually want to listen to him. in fact I am right now

why surprisingly

violinist piece was v excellent imho, beiber bro was good, what an uninteresting fellow

i reread the paragraphs about Bieber meeting up with The Wanted 3 times, and then ditched the article because life was complete.

he sees someone from the Wanted and they calling each other bro and comparing tats. Wanted guy lifts up his shirt and has one of his own lyrics tattooed there, and it's really embarrassing, but Bieber's like "cool tat bro, let me show you mine". Bieber reveals his tattoo of Christ praying and everyone in the Wanted is stunned. Bieber starts flicking everyone's balls. after a few failures he finally lands a solid hit on someone from the Wanted. the Wanted guy wants to hit him back but "doesn't want to hurt his pretty face" or something like that. Bieber's manager is like "HIT HIM IN THE BALLS, WE'RE FAMILY", but then Bieber starts crying. he doesn't want to get hit, no fairsies! waaaaaaaaah. "Where is my dressing room" he asks

yeah the bieber manager himself seems pretty zzzzzzzzz but any of the parts of the article featuring bieber are hilarious, he's so dumb and infantile

From the online section: an appraisal of Lester Bangs. I love the clueless comments.

My favorite bit in the Bieber article:

Bieber greeted the members of the Wanted familiarly. (Braun’s policy, among his acts, is that “everyone’s family, everyone has to get along.”)

“It’s your birthday, bro?” Bieber said to Nathan Sykes, one of the band’s singers. He had been prepped by Braun, who was throwing Sykes a party that night, at the Playboy Mansion. The young men immediately began comparing tattoos. George lifted up his shirt to reveal some song lyrics: “We try / we fall / we live another day.”

“Dope,” Bieber said, and pulled up his pant leg to show, on his calf, a large tattoo of Jesus with hands clasped in prayer. (Bieber and his mother are devout Christians.) The Wanted members looked a little stunned.

Biebs trying to be cool by using slang.

I think I have a small lit crush on Maria Bustillos ever since I read her joint-review of the Olive Garden on The Awl.

We try / we fall / we live another day

THOSE were the lyrics. i was sitting here at work trying to come up with the most stupidest combination of words of all time (usually something that comes very easily to me), but i couldn't remember.

I guess wrt the violinist piece, I just didn't expect to be that impressed or surprised by the approach of a modern violinist, and also I thought from the title and taglines that it was about something else (e.g. maybe one of these dull "science of making a violin sound good" kind of pieces). But then the guy seemed totally OTM to me, and he kind of expressed something I had experienced but not identified in trying to find good recordings of various violin pieces (lately, on Spotify) and feeling like too many of them were similar to each other and not quite hitting me the way I wanted them to.

Bieber’s fans, who call themselves Beliebers

I've lost all respect for the Biebster :(

it's really sad, he is an irritating little shitstain

Braun’s policy, among his acts, is that “everyone’s family, everyone has to get alongpunch everyone else in the dong.”

i reread the paragraphs about Bieber meeting up with The Wanted 3 times, and then ditched the article because life was complete.

he sees someone from the Wanted and they calling each other bro and comparing tats. Wanted guy lifts up his shirt and has one of his own lyrics tattooed there, and it's really embarrassing, but Bieber's like "cool tat bro, let me show you mine". Bieber reveals his tattoo of Christ praying and everyone in the Wanted is stunned. Bieber starts flicking everyone's balls. after a few failures he finally lands a solid hit on someone from the Wanted. the Wanted guy wants to hit him back but "doesn't want to hurt his pretty face" or something like that. Bieber's manager is like "HIT HIM IN THE BALLS, WE'RE FAMILY", but then Bieber starts crying. he doesn't want to get hit, no fairsies! waaaaaaaaah. "Where is my dressing room" he asks

― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 9:39 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha yes this was sublime

violinist piece was cool, you get a feeling for not only the guy's skill but also his inimitable artistry - to ppl who understand this kind of music better than i it must be like seeing marat safin play tennis for the first time, or manu ginobili playing basketball

Anyone get to Anthony Lane's piece on Portrait of a Lady?

i was gonna finish that issue on the train tonight - should i bother with that if I haven't read the novel?

story on confidential informants was pretty fucked up

ariel levy on naomi wolf's new book was pretty awesome