New Yorker magazine alert thread

surprised the communal living 1 wasn't discussed

"Kennedy was unfamiliar with the city's neighborhoods, but he'd seen HBO's "Girls", and, he said, "I pretty much knew I was going to be in Brooklyn."

his day job is assessing black swan risks for insurers, like for example the possibility that a seven-time winner of the Tour might be cheating.

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, May 17, 2016

it's cycling! sport is a history of increasingly advanced cheating! figuring out how a champion is cheating this year is a whole other thing but there is no whiter swan.

new kathryn schulz is an instant classic

i liked the oberlin article

This is amazing. An entire spoof-edition of the New Yorker: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52a74ecde4b01bb79a769329/t/575d922e7da24f2981092db0/1465750080617/Neu+Jorker%2C+Singles%2C+Lo-res.pdf (PDF)

Indeed

Was it one of you that recommended John Vaillant's "The Tiger?" If so, thanks! If not, it's incredible. TotallyDavid Grann-tastic, and then some.

just came here to post that pdf thing (the source webpage: http://www.0s-1s.com/neujorker)

smdh shouts and murmurs is *never* the first article after talk of the town/surowiecki

Yeah no credibility.

seeing a lot of uproar on FB over this today:

https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13510910_10153811737573869_6947878920656246645_n.jpg?oh=44ef963f5f5441c083ceebfa3f35c032&oe=57D85537

why

whole lotta monocles popping out and falling into teacups

What a monster

Emily flake is great

trenchant social commentary

sample comments:

"Yeah, this sucks ass. Maybe Emily Flake should work on fixing the economy that has made a living wage almost impossible to acquire for many Americans; or just churn out another cartoon that takes an easy and simple shot at the generation dealing with the mistakes of the previous four generations."

"Yeah, New Yorker lets put down everyone who tries to eat healthier by stereotyping and putting negative labels onto them."

"People who live with their parents just need to lower their standards, and quit being coddled. Move in with five friends and to make ends meet and stop using your parents to maintain your life. I moved out at 18 in the 80's and could not afford a phone for 2 years and had to use a pay phone (the days before smart phones) because I wanted to be an adult not an eternal adolescent."

"Unnecessarily shaming cartoon, considering how many adults are forced to live with their parents because of the lousy economy and ginormous student loans. The cartoonist should go after the economic and student loan crises instead."

blah, blah, blah.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClvpTBxWkAAU_k5.jpg

That's a good one. Did anyone else know that the May 16th issue had an enhanced reality cover? It was pretty cool.

o yeah what was the deal w that ?

i can't deal w how gd the nyer's online writing has got, it's fucked up

its too much right

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-2016-05-16

it is v much too much & i think it is also of a rly confusingly hi quality - somehow suddenly a better blog than any other news/personal essay hosting site, also kinda just roamingly curious & illuminating to a magazine standard. like i cd almost just swap a digest for talk of the town. they have so many great writers now; i hope they're the people who will be batumans + schulzs in the magazine in a couple years.

+ ty for the link josh !, i will try out

piece on syrian surgeons one of the most difficult things i've ever read, just unbearable

last week's Adrienne Rich piece actually sent me back to her mid '80s poetry, which is some achievement (the piece's result, not the poetry).

Gerald Foos didn't own the motel for 11 years of his journals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/author-gay-talese-disavows-his-latest-book-amid-credibility-questions/2016/06/30/1fede2b8-3e22-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/01/484321658/gay-talese-disavows-his-disavowal-of-his-new-book

i don't believe he made up his visit to the motel and that's really the most key bit -- all the other claims of the motel owner are left bracketed in uncertainty by talese

i missed that new parody. the 80's parody had the best kael impression. so hilarious.

http://product-images.highwire.com/8556895/17fde1f4-927b-4d28-8dc1-2e5d4ec10aa7.jpg

My gut feeling is that Foos's "journal" is largely a fabrication

― Josefa, Sunday, April 10, 2016 1:04 AM (2 months ago)

This is looking more true now. Talese getting up into the crawlspace was a key bit, yeah, but it seems to me the journal is of major importance too, since it provides the structure on which the whole story is based

new yorker fact checkers what up

Holy christ Emily Nussbaum on GoT. One of the dumbest most terribbly written things ever to appear in these pages.

nah

Copy-editing miss tho, "palate" for "palette"

"I sneered at the sight of a house cat; a baby made me shrug."

No you didn't, stop it.

There's a Bernie Sanders avatar, too, if you don't like Bernie Sanders: with shocking timeliness, given the bird that landed on Sanders' podium recently, his name is High Sparrow.

Riiiight. Shocking.

George Saunders attends and reports on Donald Trump rallies -- I so much want this to be good! Please tell me I won't be disappointed!

NEW DAVID GRANN BOOK (in april 2017)

o damn dave grann

yessss finally

a year from now D:

George Saunders attends and reports on Donald Trump rallies -- I so much want this to be good! Please tell me I won't be disappointed!

it's very george saunders

parts of it are good

agree with that. it's very writer-y but has effective moments. it did really bum me out in general despite the "hopeful" part at the end.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/behold-your-newest-silver-screen-sex-goddess-jane-neighbor

Neighbor is twenty-eight and twenty-two, at once. She is a kind of gorgeous that can only be found in or very near rivers. She is blonde but also blond, depending on the spelling. She is tall when she is on a ladder, and medium-­tall when she is halfway up the ladder. Her eyelashes spell “glory.” Her naked hands can open wet jars, with just the strength of her slender fingers. She can be sexy and pointy and things that aren’t even adjectives, like glossary, or aren’t even words, like hilabrion. Her voice sounds like a truck full of rain.

Just read that article about Syrian doctors .... Fuck

so so difficult + heavy. it took me a while to think thru why the lens of the profile is a doctor abroad + i assume it is just bc of the paucity of staff + the difficulty of getting close. so incredibly moving + heavy

The article about Trump's ghostwriter is good.

I've been occasionally listening to the New Yorker Radio Hour podcast, and while I usually like Remnick as a writer, he comes off as such a smug prick on the radio.

enjoyed the damon baehrel paumgarten piece and the Curtis sittenfeld fiction this wk

anyone else think the article about the national museum of african american history was oddly condescending? they kept presenting the guy running it as being a salesman/fake