New Yorker magazine alert thread

liked the franklin piece as much as everybody else; v lovely. also liked the tibet/immolation piece?

i had a daytrip involving copious waiting room time, waiting for a visa appointment, & stuffed a bunch of old issues into my bag to catch up; reading the joseph mitchell piece, which is great; liked the zadie smith on joni mitchell piece fine?, which iirc annoyed people, here - i can sorta see why because that kind of peripatetic, loftily quoting thing is destined to be on some level insubstantial, but i kinda liked its concerns. & read the purell piece. also good.

dudes i know what he writes about, but the lcd article was literally about how lcd screens are made - it was a tech article, not a "how does tech affect reading" article. and it wasn't very good.

Yeah, I don't think Baker was well-suited for this piece. He's great at writing about his own (i.e., user-centered) interactions with technology -- he also had a good one about video games a couple years ago, IIRC -- but this wasn't that.

Gladwell generator

lol at "Monster Cocks: The Last Book You'd Ever Think I'd Write"

The piece on domestic violence prevention was hair-raising.

yeah

loved the beach erosion article (my alley) and lol at the karan family being called out in a national magazine for suing because beach replenishment prevented them from seeing the ocean from their ground floor

i mean the jersey shore and all of us are horribly horribly doomed, but fuck those ppl viciously as they retreat to their other half-dozen houses

British egg collector one was so awesome, but i kept wishing it was 3 times as long and done by David Grann

For fans of "Super Sad True Love Story," Shteyngart's Google Glass piece was like a meta-prequel.

The Steubenville thing, holy shit. I had mostly skipped out on that whole story, gah.

Hmm, I wonder how I would have felt about it had I known nothing about the case? Because I (very casually) knew what had gone down, which made the piece that much more powerful.

really liked the shteyngart thing. there are a couple of real beautiful lines, & the moments he accentuated really do seem futuristic enough to be jarring (cf the in-person hangout).

wish the lanchester thing was more george packery. it's kinda too mild to really impart anything powerful about thatcher.

stubenville thing, domestic violence thing, tyler clementi thing - this is such a strong vein for the NYer, i think. they do it p much faultlessly.

<3 ariel levy

too bad there isn't an easy way to just pull up freely available feature articles

like an index of them or an easy way to search through them or something like that

filtering out all shorter shit and shit you need a sub to access

read last weeks(?) thing abt recreating near-dead french cuisines -- some fast food chain should make that puff pastry salmon 1, wld eat

Yeah, that did sound really good. Coulibiac!

civil forfeiture article in the new one is a must-read, deserves a pulitzer or to be the inspiration for a nationwide armed insurrection or something

like i'm getting angry again just thinking about it

sort of reminds me of the TAL piece I listened to last night about prisons -- a fucked up detail I didn't know, among many I already did, is that offenders can't even move back into public housing WITH THEIR FAMILIES who already live there.

i'm actually familiar enough with civil forfeiture issues that it really hit home. a sibling of mine is currently in federal prison on a drug charge; although my parents live in a state where civil property seizure is rarely practiced to this extent, they were at least aware enough of the risk of losing their house to get their own lawyer involved, since said sibling had lived at home for a while as an adult

regardless it's fucking crazy that they had to do that in the first place - to say nothing of the people whose only error was driving in the left lane through some shitbag town

The piece on the fashion photog who rents out his apartment to dozens of people at once was awesome. That could be a movie.

the Thatcher book review got me to check the bio out of the library

steubenville date-rape twitter piece is a must-read

Yes, it's brilliant.

Very uplifting. :\

group deduction culture

its the best thing ive read in a while for sure

online for all now http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/05/130805fa_fact_levy?currentPage=all

yea it's an amazing piece

just read it this morning. wow.

A novelist couldn't have come up with Goddard's line about jackrabbits and her new boyfriend.

she is a truly frightening person

yeah the little throwaway comments gave me a def nancy grace famehound vibe

cant shake "gravy legs" from bouncing around inside my head

ha otm

civil forfeiture piece was amazing, also wished batuman's article about the mysterious balkan kidney disease was longer

that one was good but i felt like it kinda underplayed the conclusion which was the disease is mysterious because of missing databases and bureaucratic infighting

yeah it felt like it could have been laid out more clearly which is why i wish it was longer

that conclusion is kinda unsatisfying from a storytelling perspective, felt like she was going for a more experiential vibe

civil forfeiture was v eye-opening for me, I had no idea that went on as horribly as all of that.

Wow, that piece.

Yeah. Deeply deeply disgusting. Seriously fuck the police.

I mean I just cannot get my head around the U.S. vs. One Gold Crucifix, I mean how is any of this remotely legal?

Carl Agatha and Hurting need to get on this shit.

everyone's right about the steubenville piece, it's a hell of a read.

agreed

That rape story - wow

The whole thing is crazy but the bit referencing the Boston Marathon bombing is a wacked lil diversion, people can be awful