New Yorker magazine alert thread

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

one advantage of the digital subscription is that this week's edition is available exactly right now

my print subscription lapsed months ago but i can still access the digital edition iirc

my subscription is up in a month, planning to go digital-only at that point. It just works really well on the Nook for me.

I paid $29.99, I think, a few weeks ago. Educator's discount?

Isn't digital only just a little bit less than the magazine, which also gives you digital?

i somehow got a $25 "professional discount" in 07

xpost yes. It's really a tiny NYC apartment problem. The physical pile-up.

and an international subscription problem (us$112/yr for the print edition)

runaways piece is just arresting; making me look around more openly and less jaded at kids i see on the street

On the plus side, this week's issue has a fantastic piece about a guy who tested chemical weapons on military personnel. Pretty nuts.

On the minus side, it has one of the worst Shouts & Murmurs in recent history, and it's four times longer than normal too.

Why do you torture yourself by reading S&M?

I only actually read a tiny bit of it but the shtick was so dreadful that I had to mention it.

I have laughed at Shouts and Murmurs at least one time

I'm such a glutton for punishment that I always read the S&M in the hopes that, oh yeah, THIS week will be the funny one.

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needs the statue of liberty weeping

it doesn't matter who holds the football - woody allen, jack handey, steve martin, david sedaris, bob odenkirk - they all fuck you in the end

wait does that mean Lucy was into pegging

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