New Yorker magazine alert thread

jets article has some solid LOLs, rushdie article is half fascinating and half weird (lots of self-aggrandizing and written in second person for some reason)

I glanced at the Rushdie piece, and isn't it in third person?

Anyway, looking forward to that and the Elizabeth Warren profile once I finish the interminable article on the Danish architect.

sorry, third person, you're right. mixed up my terminology.

Second person would be weird - like a choose your own adventure book but with a fatwa.

you are not the kind of guy who would be the target of a fatwa at a place like this at this time of the morning

Your wife, who is falling out of love with you, calls you to say that 200 journalists are outside of your home. Do you:

a) Go home and fight through the mob of journalists to your home.
b) Ask your wife to meet you at your agent's office.
c) Say, "200? Exactly 200? It's very easy to make inaccurate estimates with a crowd that large, are you sure? I bet it's only 100."

You have written Haroun and The Sea of Stories.

Do you want to be a children's author? Go to page 43.
Do you want to divorce your model wife? Go to page 230.

My English degree finally proves useful.

Also, GO TO PAGE 43 TO THE MAX.

lol lol lol

Thought the Rushdie piece was excellent, and I understand the impulse to write it in the 3rd person: both as a process, in order to step out from under that kind of shadow and describe it with any kind of objectivity; and as a kind of compensatory measure — he justifiably wants to sever the "I" from this story, to be regarded more for his work than his face/notoriety.

Also thought it was a good narrative strategy that dovetailed neatly w/ the historical sections....

ugh i couldn't read the gladwell thing about pedophiles, not even because of ugh gladwell, but it was just too disturbing and gross, it basically read like "how to be a pedophile"

good pieces this week: surprisingly touching profile of joe girardi, interesting piece about the first political consulting firm

really wish the contents flap on the front of the magazine read MALCOLM GLADWELL how to be a paedophile

yeah that article was really disturbing. could possibly do some good, though (or lead to more witchhunts).

My first fear was that Gladwell would have some sort of gimmick insight to offer on the subject. Which he didn't. But there were paragraphs in there that made my whole body cringe (b/c of the details).

i look forward to him including that article in his next book of mind-blowing essays for business-types

mind-blowing essays for child-molesters

mindful essays for child-blo[REDACTED]

from the author of BLINK and OUTLIERS: CREEPY GIGGLE

http://deadspin.com/5944033/malcolm-gladwell-turns-jerry-sandusky-into-a-parable-by-leaving-out-some-facts?post=52780804

confidential informants article, so sad. the details about the parents' new routines.

Just getting around to Kolbert's article on Neanderthals, really good. This was a startling detail, though:

While I was in Leipzig, I watched a graduate student cut the heads off some of the altered mice and then slice up their brains, like radishes.

yeah i love that article. the part about the desire to raft into uncharted territory separating neanderthal from man.

you are v far behind w/your stack of nyers, though.

this is now my favorite new yorker cartoon of all time:

http://i45.tinypic.com/1q4jdu.jpg

i liked the one with the political candidate kissing a baby while it was breastfeeding. i chortled a little at that one.

it was good anyway (i love that he's brought his stick into the room. it adds another layer to the whole ridiculous situation, which is that he's still playing childish games while his wife is moving on to having sex with...uh...humans), but the fact that the man's arm resembles a deer leg takes it to a new level.

the stick is such a nice touch

this is now my favorite new yorker cartoon of all time:

http://i45.tinypic.com/1q4jdu.jpg

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omg

What issue was the Kolbert neanderthal thing in? I feel like I missed that.

it was approx one zillion new yorker years ago

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/110815fa_fact_kolbert

i also like that neither the poodle or the deer-man look ashamed or startled at all. they're just like "fuck yeah we're having sex now, go play with your stick and get lost!"

prelude to a threesome

damn, this gonorrhea article is really dispiriting. I hate to think we are approaching a time where condoms for oral sex are gonna need to be the way of the world.

compelling reasons to skip articles

(not really)

(i am sexually responsible)

I totally laughed at the snake/cell phone gag.

http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/65/6561/WLD2100Z/posters/ariel-molvig-o-k-now-do-you-see-a-giant-snake-i-m-inside-the-snake-new-yorker-cartoon.jpg

haha

biden-as-server is good

roz chast is awful

I like the "My wife! My best friend!" cartoon very much, but I think of it as an extremely funny twist (the stick! Poor doggie!) on a fairly common joke among couples where the pets are allowed in the bedroom. I know I've yelled it at napping wife and cat enough times that they both hate me.

i will admit that i laughed at the biden-as-waiter shouts and murmurs.

it was a really good shouts and murmurs!

Haven't read it yet, but imo Biden is always comedy gold.

wait, in the new one? my subscription just lapsed, and i'm waiting for my resubscription issues to arrive. are you telling me that in the ONE issue of the new yorker that i've missed in the last 6-7 years, there's FINALLY a shouts and murmurs??!!?

WTF

sorry, finally a FUNNY shouts and murmurs??!?!

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2012/10/01/121001sh_shouts_barol

It’s the special. It’s the special.

Anybody read the review of the Seward bio? Good fun -- a great character.

i really liked the piece about Campaign, Inc