New Yorker magazine alert thread

Hasn't John Seabrook already written that piece btw?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/26/120326fa_fact_seabrook

also

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/08/121008fa_fact_seabrook

yeah seabrook has apparently made a specialty out of writing about the machinery of pop music, amusingly he apparently is a) a huge eagles fan b) doesnt really like pop music

i loved the ester dean piece, like even tho he was condescending i found her creative process totally charming and inspiring

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/10/new-private-club-in-san-francisco.html

LOL now this lady on the other hand really does not like these douchebags:

"The seagull population in San Francisco has risen, from twenty-four birds in 1980 to more than fifty-three thousand in 2013. The gulls threaten endangered native species, interfere with landings and takeoffs at local airports, and even upset Giants fans by eating their snacks and defecating on them during games. They are opportunistic scavengers who adapt easily and can unhinge their jaws to consume what looks like more than their fair share; they may have started out as a small group of not-so-charming birds, but now they’re running the show."

clubs that select their own members are, by definition, not diverse

This is incorrect?

Gottwald's cell phone rang.

"Hey, man," he said. It was Katy Perry's manager, Bradford Cobb. "What's up? Talk to me."

The NY law firm article was bonkers in a vicarious John Grisham kinda way

Henry Wallace article showed him bonkers in a hilarious way.

I started the law firm article...it's like a Louis Auchincloss story.

https://twitter.com/davepell/status/388722039705460736/photo/1

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWUEoq2CUAAQWr1.png

This is great: Michael Shannon gets rejected by the NYer

I love articles about collapsing law firms, looking for a novel version.

Is Edward Snowden coming back to fix http://healthcare.gov ? @BorowitzReport http://nyr.kr/1daZQ1c

fp borowitz is the worst

the austerity of his formula is getting kinda seductive to me. it is ... so base.

if you like reading about collapsing law firms here's another good article: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113941/

The air was warm and moist and pungent with the scent of soured milk, like the cleavage of a nursing mother on a warm day

did anyone else lol at "The number of homeless people in New York has gone through the roof they don't have."

shameless coldblooded homeless zing. in like the first paragraph. bam!

The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik reminds me of a smart kid who has to stick his hand up in class every single time in case we forget he's smart.

Is Jill Lepore's thing on Doctor Who worth resuming my subscription for?

main weird ultra new yorkish new yorker thing in the homelessness piece is the author offering up itineraries of his every subway transfer as evidence of his dogged journalistic skills. it's like janet malcolm including her expenses receipts, just really strange.

the doctor who thing is pretty good, but the thing about the anti-semitic hungarian politician who discovers he's jewish is even better imo

i think the itineraries were intended to demonstrate how fucking big nyc is and how much it sucks to be shuffled all over the system. i doubt that ian frazier (the author of the homelessness piece) was trying to impress you

he maybe gets away with some things due to his long tenure there, tho

in other news, it turns out that I really, truly, could not care less about the new translation of the Decameron.

Ian Frazier is best known for his travelogues so

new ariel levy piece is kinda incredible

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/18/131118fa_fact_levy?currentPage=all

Doctor Who thing is entertaining but nothing you haven't heard before. The "New Yorker angle" -- something about the holocaust being ignored in the UK, which doesn't really seem accurate to me, as a UK Jew -- is a bit perplexing though.

I like the idea of Frazier but I find his pieces really hard work.

Grease thieves piece is really interesting. I couldn't handle the Ariel Levy piece, once I saw where it was going I had to skip it :/

i liked this blog post

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/11/supreme-skateboarding-clothing-underground-fashion-store-chinatown.html

;)

i really liked the eugenides short story

cool short story bro

I did not like it at all, really, and I am typically a Eugenides fan!

I also liked the Eugenides story. I don't know that I've ever read anything by him before so I don't know if it's typical. I thought it was fun and amusing and touching.

Story about stock trading was gently chilling

Well was basically about the SEC

what did mike cera do @ jeremys party

http://www.vulture.com/2013/11/dorothy-parker-and-vladimir-nabokov-lolita.html

thanks for posting that

I can't read it til it arrives in print but there's a Calvin Trillin piece on a New York deli in this week's, super psyched, shades of Shopsin's

it's if anything a little slight but still great. i could read trillin's food writing all day

For Trillin fans, he also wrote the first-person, one-pager for the back page of the NY Times Magazine last Sunday. It was funny and charming.

n/a I need NYer on Kindle assistance again :(

I had not finished last week's issue when this week's issue arrived and supplanted the old issue on my home screen. No biggie, I thought, I'll just open the archives and dig out the old issue. Well, last week's issue isn't in there! Only a few older issues are there, from months ago. Where the fuck are my (recent) old issues?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/03/bolshoi-dancer-pavel-dmitrichenko-jailed-acid-sergei-filin

The art world piece blew my mind, I had no idea there was so much cash being thrown around.

Great ish overall this week.

loved the thing about the french naturalist, eagerly anticipating pt2