New Yorker magazine alert thread

video doesn't do it justice honestly, part of what makes twist so effective is his vision really brings you in on the spot in a tremendously immersive and persuasive way

I was agog over the descriptions of his set designs--agree that you'd HAVE to see that in person to truly appreciate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5VK4ymLduo
^here's some arias with a twist, certainly worth a look
he was selling simple leg puppets for fifty bucks in the lobby, wish i had bought one

very much enjoyed the salter profile but agree it was missing a certain something. perhaps it lacked a narrative cohesion (like the opening anecdote did not connect well with his sit down with Salter at the end)? still, paumgarten is my favorite staff writer (along with schjeldhahl and woods) and it got me reading salter's 'light years'.

i appreciated the fact that the tc boyle short story in the same issue namechecked salter

wasn't really into the story tho

I'm usually big into TC Boyle but I wasn't into that one at all, either.

Couldn't get behind the paywall to read the James Salter article thought about buying paper copy, maybe just will borrow from neighbor. In the meantime I found this http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/category/james-salter-month/

Wow, that puppet dance. Now I have to read that profile.

New issue seems better: Colombian danger-hiking, gondolier ...

colombian danger-hiking wasn't that great

psh get back to me when you danger hike EVEREST

omg darién gap vs. nice ladies asking for beads

guys i know i'm behind but omg the faludi remembrance of firestone! i finished it right before my first class today, which was a mistake bc i had to try not to cry all through first period!

Yeah it was hella sad

ICE story this week was scary. i wish it was longer.

also noah baumbach leaving jennifer jason leigh for greta gerwig grossed me out in light of the thurston moore/kim gordon stuff

gondolier story is pretty beautiful

Yeah, was reading it last night. It's really well written, in a beautiful prose sense.

I kinda hated the gondolier story! Odd because I liked that dude's memoir from way back.

idk i think iditarod-ers should be able to smoke weed

loved the photos accompanying the iditerod piece

Basil Twist quick video profile: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/04/video-basil-twist-discusses-puppetry.html

Also, a rehearsal of his "Rite of Spring": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-AASL52zLU

Thanks for turning me on to that Twist profile. Was great!

OK, it's not the New Yorker, but the New York Times has a fascinating piece on a Staten Island/Bronx Holocaust survivor and real estate developer who died last year, leaving behind no will and a $40 million estate, the largest unclaimed NY inheritance in history. It's full of odd details and anecdotes, from 40k hidden in the bathroom ceiling to the close knit survivor community to the search for an heir.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/nyregion/holocaust-survivor-left-an-estate-worth-almost-40-million-but-no-heirs.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&hp

Grampa!

iatee cries tears of joy

George Packer's depression journalism piece is great, if sad.

ariel levy piece on cat breeders this week is awesome. sample quote: "The spiked cat penis is why it's nearly impossible to artificially inseminate cats, and it is why a serious breeder simply can't get by with five cats."

yeah that was great and the article about finding lost cities in the amazon using LASERS was cool too

Loved that cat article. Gotta say that the Kindle version gets me through articles I might have dog-eared and forgotten about back when I was a print-only gal.

I mean I would have read the cat article, but probably not the depression journalism piece, which I at least skimmed through!

pretty great ish overall this week actually

there was something kinda weird about the ra dickey profile - like the author is oddly critical of him or something - but it was still an interesting read

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/05/06/cartoons/130506_cartoon_054_a17485_p465.gif

these are my least favorite new yorker cartoons, the ones where some semicurrent buzzword is just dropped in as the only punchline. they run these all the time and it's really hacky. you'll be seeing a google glass cartoon in about three months.

From the submitting cartoonists perspective, it is a v effective way of increasing yr chances of getting a piece accepted though.

but i'm not a submitting cartoonist. i'm a guy reading the cartoons. so fuck them.

n/a otm. i still get a kick out of "cavemen with first world problems" tho

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_longm6ePDh1qav5oho1_500.png

ha that one is great

Xpost word, I'm not saying they're not crappy gags, I expect the cartoonists know that as well as anyone.

Rebecca Mead's TOTT piece on Amanda Knox was arch and obnoxious, buttressed by Henry James parallels and specious remarks (e.g. many young American women "caught in post-post-feminist narrative in which it is proposed that sexual emancipation maybe achieved through emotional disengagement").

feel like I might be caught in a post post post feminist whirlpool plz help

enjoyed the article on the "river martyrs" from last weeks from aleppo. even in the midst of a civil war, people still have to live their lives

really loved the gondolier story, even if i had the hardest time understanding him when writing about the mechanics of it

The new cover is OTM, as always with Chris Ware.

Ware cover was really sweet.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/20/130520fa_fact_heller?currentPage=all

guys i know i'm behind but omg the faludi remembrance of firestone! i finished it right before my first class today, which was a mistake bc i had to try not to cry all through first period!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

i got a weird "all activism is futile" vibe from that one, like aside from telling this sad story faludi was somehow settling old scores

salter profile was boring.

i know i'm like 10 issues behind, that's just how i roll

anyone read the fairly recent article about the iditarod. i've had that one bookmarked.

I wish I had a hardcover version of everything Peter Schjrldahl will ever write! Ditto for some of the NYT fine arts writers

Iditarod was boilerplate but a fun read-- even better photos

I enjoyed the Mars article from that issue.