New Yorker magazine alert thread

Douthat wrote an embarrassing, offensive column about women and sex in yesterday's NYT.

i don't doubt that

that should be his calling card, structuring whole columns around incorporating the wordplay of ross not being surprised that something is the case. in fact maybe this IS how he writes but everytime it's edited out but the smoldering wreckage of its shitty foundations remains unaffected.

the pope profile is dope though

i shall read

Finally read that Trillin piece on the mozzarella place. I thought it was pretty great. Deceptively light in tone, but tinged with melancholy and nostalgia. It seems like the NY ecosystem of colorful little neighborhood shops is passing away, at least in Manhattan. I loved the part about how he couldn't believe he'd been saying hi to a guy in the back of the shop who hadn't been there for the past couple of years.

Pope profile was cool but the plant neurobiology article was amazing. It did a really good job of capturing all sides of the discussion and I loved the point about the importance of metaphor and analogy for scientists.

ian frazier really out-ian fraziered himself with the nyc road salt bit

willing to bet that 95% of the mentions of staten island 'kills' in the nyer over the past 25 years were written by him

I know that this is only from the website, but still ...

Critics of “The Wolf of Wall Street” want its moral lessons spelled out explicitly. In hindsight, they’re complaints will look ridiculous.

THEY'RE COMPLAINTS
THEY'RE COMPLAINTS
THEY'RE COMPLAINTS
THEY'RE COMPLAINTS

the celebrated New Yorker copy editing department.

they are complaints, which will look ridiculous

Every bad thing anyone ever said about the Internet has come true in one apocalyptic typo.

Yep

Flashback to "Bright Lights, Big City"

Tangent: good article about when copywriters get laid off re bad writing passing through at NY Times.

hey nyer thread I just started hilton als' new book & it is beautiful

David Grann favorited your Tweet
1m: @DavidGrann me

*does a lil dance*

the valley fever story is good

david grann faved a tweet of mine once too!!

@totallyslutsky: Learned today that the official word for huge @DavidGrann fans is #grannboys

*high5* david gann is our friend

man i havent read my new yorkers in so long, also i just subscribed to harpers they have an app now

I let my subscription lapse (as is my wont around December) so I'm owed a couple.

I got a weird passive aggressive renewal notice the other day, I think because they had the wrong expiration date on my card so couldn't push through the auto renewal. The note implored me to correct my files so that it could ... charge me the insane amount of $89.99 for the year? Yeah, I'll get right on that, New Yorker. I called them instead to see what was up, and with some prodding I talked them down to $69.99 or so. But I wasn't done, because I had seen some promo rate of $50 for the year and told them I saw it on a New Yorker affiliated subscription site (true), the same official site that regularly handles their renewals. The nice woman paused then said, defeated: "We will honor that rate."

Me, for the win.

still mad i didn't go that route for my $25 rate i had 5-6 years ago

Yeah, I had this awesome rate, too, that spoiled me a bit, but I figure a buck an issue I can more than live with, given it takes me months to actually read one.

I had a sub to Wired that was something like three years for $12. It was just silly-cheap for a solid magazine, and I haven't had the heart to sub at a higher rather since. But I know promos float around, so I'll just wait, biding my time, for the right moment to pounce.

canadians pay $90 :(

it's still like less than $2 an issue for an entire year tho

RIGHT?!?!?

just get the app mane

i feel totally happy paying full price btw the nyer is good and i want them to flourish in this v trying time for print publications

i reallly prefer the real thing

reading on the app is fine but browsing old issues, having a stack of them in your bathroom, etc, aint the same

do whatever you want in yr bathroom man thats none of my business destroy the world and all the trees idc

why dont you destroy the developing world with all your rare earth materials while im cutting down the trees

ipads are essential to my lifestyle i apologize to no one

i hate reading things on screens

yes, i appreciate the ironing

I feel like I have this weird mini-buzz of anxiety reading the NYer app, like I need to rush through the story for some reason. not as chill as reading papes

i read plenty of nyer articles on my phone, v enjoyable experience imo

how can you "read" soemthing on a phone, unless you mean someone is reading it over the phoen to you?

no piles of magazines no need to be in the place where the magazine is delivered to

My wife totally makes me read articles to her.

well i guess we know who wears the pants in this family huh fellas

ouch!

i have to tell it how it is im just that real

the cool thing about the digital subscription is you can pay for a single month's subscription-- you end up paying like $15 more over the course of a year but w/e

i'm that guy who prints out longer articles from the web to read at home

It takes a real man to read a whole 23-page story about human suffering in Syria or whatever out loud.

Actually, what usually happens is that I make it several pages in, then she tells me to stop. So the next day I look for the issue, to finish the story, and she's taken it to finish on the train. And then she forgets it at work. So I never learn how they end!

marriage!

It's all about teamwork: I start reading the articles and she finishes them.

you really read them out loud?