New Yorker magazine alert thread

apologies for being arguably off topic, but do any of you fuck w/ a digital only sub to this? i haven't had any sub since high school, but might change that eventually and am considering skipping print altogether

i guess it'd probably be a newsstand sub on my ipad

for 10 bucks more a year you get the print, too

i don't get the point of a digital subscription. NYers are easy to carry with you, no?

Digital subs arrive on time & your roommate can't steal them as punishment for not doing the washing up (that's me)

it just reminds me of an old article about Death Row Records where Snoop and the Dogg Pound run into the guy from PM Dawn and start yelling anti-gay slurs at him

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is this avail or can i get an issue date to pull from the archives? sounds dope

I hated the digital but am happy enough with the Kindle edition.

jc, couldn't find that but DID find this:
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/14/magazine/does-a-sugar-bear-bite.html?pagewanted=all
gonna slot this in the hip hop stories thread as well because it's a helluva read

thx 4ks

xpost the Death Row thing was not in the New Yorker--Spin, maybe?

Snoop, Dre’s little brother Warren G and Daz have come to pick me up for a ride to Long Beach. Downstairs, in the hotel lobby, Li’l Malik (of the group Illegal) and Snoop’s cousin, Big C-Style, are waiting, watching cars. Malik runs up to Snoop, “Yo, that fat PM Dawn nigga is right there. Look!” Prince Be is waiting for a valet to park his convertible. ” Faggot, biiyaach!” Snoop doesn’t join Malik in dissing Prince Be, but he doesn’t speak to him either. Once we’re inside Snoop’s black Grand Cherokee 4×4, I glance back at Prince Be through the tinted windows; his feelings are visibly hurt.

http://dreamhampton.com/1993/06/24/snoop-g-down/_2696090972.html

the article on Svetlana fascinated me, especially since I've been reading about George Kennan lately.

Not sure why Brand Nubian guy being a homophobe is shocking. "Punk Jumps Up to Get Up Beat Down" came out 20 years ago.

the story on the West Virginia chemical spill is the first I've read in months that felt like a slow wrenching of every organ in my body.

great new yorker momentz, this afternoon. i'm not sure if they occasionally hold off on publishing an article until the moment is right or if it's just a happy coincidence, but the Evan Osnos article on the recent West Virginia chemical spill, Chemical Valley is simultaneously the best article I've read on the spill and a powerful rebuke to the recent Supreme Court decision that was based on the idea that "Ingratiation and access … are not corruption."

but they aren't! Roberts said so.

citing the infallible "earlier dumb opinion that we wrote"

man that pain dr one

yeah, I felt awful about his daughter getting blackballed as a result of everything

the detail about them picking out prison-friendly wedding rings at k-mart :/

the guy seemed like such a fascinating chump, too, like a coen bros character

blanking on what i've read & liked recently but it dawned on me to hit up this thread, are any of you listening to the longform podcast? it's really good. nerdy interviews with nerdy journalists. it's really good. cool eps with like sarah stillman, ariel levy, rachel aviv, &c&c.

Loved the Ariel Levy and Emily Nussbaum ones. As always I could do with less Gopnik.

the article on memory was cool, not sure i had ever known of that study where what was it 20%? of the subjects "remembered" details of being lost @ a mall as a child even though it never happened

That militia article is ultimately not that great but was super engrossing

oh yeah the memory article was good. also really liked the piece on parkinson's a couple weeks before.

What is your definition of a "great" article then? To me an article that had me "super engrossed" would be great, imho.

The writing wasn't interesting in itself, it wasn't emotionally doing much. The writer found a really horrific story about dumb army people and told it, seems like something that I may say that I read in the New Yorker if someone else talks about it idk

what was the memory article?

he can't remember

The woman w/ the holocaust survivor dad one

http://m.newyorker.com/the40s

saw this in a bookstore the other day and nearly bought it, but it's 40 bucks. it's on my birthday list

the '90s one is gonna be expensive

lol

That militia article is ultimately not that great but was super engrossing

I agree with this. It was kinda trashy I thought - I almost felt a little dirty for reading it when I finished. If you like true crime, it's competent enough, but ultimately just kind of gross and sad.

the rambly Gopnik thing about Whorfianism was kinda weak but I would read an entire book of him telling stories about his parents tbh

i skip everything by gopnik on principle

his article about college sports was riddled with inaccuracies

i skip everything by gopnik on principle

― johnny crunch

i'm going to use emily nussbaum's High Maintenance writeup as yet another excuse to further evangelize for it:

High Maintenance - Very good web-series. Discuss.

a. The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong, by Jill Lepore

b. Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of 'Disruptive Innovation'

You keep referring to Lepore by her first name. Do you know her?

I've never met her in my life.

c. lol

yeah the article was a solid B+ the response bumps it up to A trolling

lepore piece reminded me of creationist 'takedowns', too lazy to have even a passing familiarity w/ what it's attacking, too smug to be bothered, eventual collapse into corny end of movie declaration of love for god/humanity/the easter bunny. she doesn't pretend to actually have any ideas though so she's better than yr gladwells i guess.

balls disruption

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/30/140630fa_fact_toobin?currentPage=all&mobify=0

the usual toobin caveats apply, but worth reading

I enjoyed the Rebecca Curtis story in the current issue.

The article about private probation companies is the best reporting I've read this year.

That's Sarah Stillman, who also reported last year's piece on civil forfeiture. Her book, whenever it comes, will be a doozy.

that's cool, the latter def reminded me of the former but had no idea they were connected or noticed they were by the same writer

oh looking forward to reading that then