New Yorker magazine alert thread

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!

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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.

i'm moving in a few days and am thinking about trashing a couple years' worth of NYers :(

well they're not National Geographic

so you're saying they burn faster

what is nat geo mag like these days? i've been thinking about sub'ing

Read the NYer article about it first!

k3vin I did the NYer trashing thing and what made it OK was/is Kindle version and bookmarking a bunch of the free articles that were pimped itt but that I had not yet gotten around to reading in print.

yeah i mean my subscription is still going to continue and if i want to reread anything i can just use the web archive, i just hate reading the digital NYers haha

mindy kaling, whoever you are, your "imagined invention" article titled "Leaning In" is an abomination. in your first paragraph, you mention that you play a character named Dr. Mindy Lahiri, so i can only assume that whatever television show or whatever you appear in is also terrible, and i feel sorry for the cast and crew that surrounds you. the completely unnecessary paragraphs that go on a deeply unfunny journey into the hypothetical 'albert-einstein-photo-guy-you-slept-with' scenario are somehow exhausting even though they take up no more than one column of space. the Kiss Monitor(tm) idea is not funny at all. even the illustration is stupid. go to hell mindy kaling, whoever you are, go to hell.

Her sitcom is pretty good.

is there a new one this week? i didn't get one. huh.

xpost oh, she was Kelly on the Office! hmph. well, i've never heard anyone say they like the office before, that's for sure. pretty obscure show imo

didn't she also do some terrible social-media-inflected reality show

guys don't panic, i got the new issue to download, just had to restart my kindle

oh thank god thank god

n/a I have to thank you for holding my hand through my NYer kindle edition transition. I end up reading a lot more of each issue now, for some reason.

no prob bob

i never got the ilx love for mindy kaling

she's a funny and talented woman iirc

she wrote lots of offices back when it was good and was a standout character -- what's not to get