New Yorker magazine alert thread

Kid Rock kept saying that he wanted a nerd to look after his money, and Romney is a nerd.

Obama is also a nerd

^this is the sort of push back any sort of responsible journalist would engage in

i would protest harping on that several years old michael savage piece except i remember just how credulous and awful it was - there are ways to write a non-straight up hatchet piece on a guy and still let them hang themselves w/ their words and actions (nearly any great negative celeb profile pulls this off), the times magazine did a piece on limbaugh that managed to give him his due while still letting the world know that no really, he's an asshole. thought this kid rock piece kinda managed that - didn't just go 'lol kid rock' but at the same time let us know that guy's existence is problematic at best (have no doubt it oversold the album he made w/ rick rubin though).

loved the dead piece, was kinda lolling at how long and aimless it was at times but at the same time wouldn't have minded if it had gone on a thousand words more.

was kinda lolling at how long and aimless it was at times but at the same time wouldn't have minded if it had gone on
--balls

roffle

loved the dead piece, was kinda lolling at how long and aimless it was at times but at the same time wouldn't have minded if it had gone on a thousand words more.

form meets content

What did the New Yorker reader say when the drugs wore off? This Dead piece sucks!

(Haven't read it yet, just wanted to enlist the classic Dead joke.)

ha that one actually gets a mention in the article *spoiler*

anybody make it through the iraqi family story with a dry eye? what a story. this whole issue's pretty great

I did, but I have no more tears to shed.

god that just ripped me apart. that family, the mother especially, what amazing, magnanimous people. fuck war

this is the one about the soldier from a couple weeks back?, or something this week?

yeah the one from a couple weeks ago

Just read that(skipping around and catching up). Intense.

Kid Rock piece was pretty great, I thought. Interesting angle on race in that one.

Thought the "Iron Curtain" book review was so good I don't need to read the book.

^^ this. excellent review.

hate you guys encouraging me to rescind defeat/go back to my pile of unfinished new yorkers so much

i've been doing that this month (30+ issues behind atm), it's brilliant

Alex Ross on the centennial of "The Rite of Spring," regrettably paywalled, and regrettably only 2 pages: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2012/11/19/121119crmu_music_ross

Kid rock piece was great even though I don't give a fuck about kid rock - more interesting than ?uestlove piece

that piece on the soldier who went back to speak to the victims of his squad's assault is kinda amazing

if you loved the diane ravitch piece definitely read these

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/sep/29/school-reform-failing-grade/
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/08/schools-we-can-envy/
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/22/how-and-how-not-improve-schools/

As I read through the page and a half litany of negative things about the Dead, I briefly, agreeing fully, considered stopping, but it was otherwise a fine, fitfully funny piece.

Noticed yet another Nussbaum essay in the same issue that is basically a list of TV shows. Sort of the On and Off the Avenue of the television set.

The piece on homosexual runaways was good.

Yeah, loved that. Great issue overall. China book review gave me some good titles to look for (PS rot in hell, Mao, you vicious POS)

i lol'd repeatedly during the piece about the college football radio host in alabama. would love to check that show out and i have zero interest in college football. kudos

You're in luck, tobo: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2012/12/paul-finebaums-best-calls.html

that piece on the soldier who went back to speak to the victims of his squad's assault is kinda amazing

― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 November 2012 02:08 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah for real. ty k3v for directing me back there. some really just stunning lines to contemplate from both angles - like a soldier defensively saying we didn't train for civilians.

i really enjoyed the food issue for like the first time this year btw. calvin trillin's schtick is comforting & amusing & the ottolenghi piece was the same, like an a+ weekend magazine supplement profile.

i'm always relieved when there's a "themed" issue because it means i can skip it and catch up :(

a friend got me one of atul gawande's books for christmas 2 years ago that i completely forgot about, starting that tonight

Checklist Manifesto?

no, complications. though i've heard my medical student and intern friends rave about that one, so i'm buying it for my stepfather (a surgeon) for hannukah

lol @ the jim from tuscaloosa calls

food issue seems ok so far, i think i am tired of the new yorker doing the whole hmmm there is a trendy restaurant out in los angeles now how fascinating thing

Football radio guy piece I guess pointless but very entertaining. Homeless runaway teen story is extremely well written.

Food issue I thought was a let down, but I did like the underground dining piece, if only for the way it casually drops the fact that the subject was the personal chef for Nicolas Cage and his family for two years, which immediately made me go, what? I want to read a story about THAT.

i dont really tbh

Anyone read any of the books by the guy who wrote the Mao review?

get dexter filkins to write it, considering the ramifications
xp

xp nah but he had a great back & forth with niall fergusson in the london review of books after writing a harsh (but otm) review of his most recent book basically calling him racist & then laughing off nf's responses with quotes of him saying super racist shit. i recommend it

btw since my friend giving me a free subscription to lrb (and the same friend passing me old copies of nyrb) i am totally becoming tom townsend from metropolitan, like i could even tell you about the review of pankaj mishra's newest book

whole thing is here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n21/pankaj-mishra/watch-this-man

Got a notice in the mail saying that my sub will automatically renew at the low-low price of $60.00 next year. WTF? I know that per issue that's a great deal, but damn, I think my introductory offer was something like $40 for two years.

that's an amazing deal imo (I'm paying about the same for a digital subscription)

You mean the 1 year @ $60?

I recently let my New Yorker sub lapse because at the rate they came I barely had time to read anything else. The LRB is better in that regard.

that's an amazing deal imo (I'm paying about the same for a digital subscription)

― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:55 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah otm, there is literally nothing in my life that is as good value-for-money as the nyer. cheap at twice the price &c.

You mean the 1 year @ $60?

yep

fwiw I combine it with itms gift card discounts, so it's closer to us$50

Man, it's not just that the New Yorker is a weekly, it's that it's a weekly with a significant, huge number of beautifully written, interesting and informative pieces nearly every single weekthat often take months to get around to. $60 is a bargain.

/spoiled