whole lotta monocles popping out and falling into teacups
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
What a monster
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
Emily flake is great
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
trenchant social commentary
― Number None, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Darin, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClvpTBxWkAAU_k5.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 June 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
That's a good one. Did anyone else know that the May 16th issue had an enhanced reality cover? It was pretty cool.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 June 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
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
― schlump, Saturday, 25 June 2016 02:45 (seven years ago) link
its too much right
― just sayin, Saturday, 25 June 2016 10:37 (seven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-2016-05-16
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 June 2016 13:38 (seven years ago) link
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.
― schlump, Saturday, 25 June 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
+ ty for the link josh !, i will try out
― schlump, Saturday, 25 June 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
piece on syrian surgeons one of the most difficult things i've ever read, just unbearable
― schlump, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
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).
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
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
― remove butt (abanana), Friday, 1 July 2016 05:04 (seven years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Sunday, 3 July 2016 00:33 (seven years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Sunday, 3 July 2016 01:32 (seven years ago) link
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
― Josefa, Sunday, 3 July 2016 06:36 (seven years ago) link
new yorker fact checkers what up
― just sayin, Sunday, 3 July 2016 11:37 (seven years ago) link
Holy christ Emily Nussbaum on GoT. One of the dumbest most terribbly written things ever to appear in these pages.
― Hadrian VIII, Sunday, 3 July 2016 15:27 (seven years ago) link
nah
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Sunday, 3 July 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Hadrian VIII, Sunday, 3 July 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Hadrian VIII, Sunday, 3 July 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
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!
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
NEW DAVID GRANN BOOK (in april 2017)
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
o damn dave grann
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
yessss finally
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
a year from now D:
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 6 July 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
it's very george saunders
parts of it are good
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
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.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
Just read that article about Syrian doctors .... Fuck
― just sayin, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 07:15 (seven years ago) link
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
― schlump, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link
The article about Trump's ghostwriter is good.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
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.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 22 August 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
enjoyed the damon baehrel paumgarten piece and the Curtis sittenfeld fiction this wk
― johnny crunch, Monday, 22 August 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
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
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 22 August 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
He’d clearly told the story of the call before, but when I spoke with him this past spring, in his office on an upper floor of the glassy Capital Gallery Building, on Maryland Avenue, he repeated it for me with all the shock and wonder that it warranted....“I go over there—door’s locked,” he said. “So I go to security and say to the guard, you know, ‘I’m the director of this new museum.’ He says, ‘We don’t know who you are—you can’t get in.’ So I go to the manager’s office: he won’t let me in. I call back to the Smithsonian and say, ‘What’s going on here?’ They say, ‘We don’t know.’ So I’m standing in front of the door, really ticked off, thinking, Why’d I take this job? But then this maintenance guy walks by, and in his cart he’s got a crowbar. So I take the crowbar and break into the offices.”
I may have looked skeptical. “Nobody was ready for us,” he insisted. “I had to break in.”...He spoke in terms like this throughout our conversation, with an unrelenting deliberateness, as if from a page of talking points. ...“I didn’t want the white marble building that traditionally was the Mall. What I wanted to say was, there’s always been a dark presence in America that people undervalue, neglect, overlook. I wanted this building to say that.” Then, as if to balance out this quick foray into confrontational talk, he added, “I also wanted a building that spoke of resiliency and uplift.”
etc etc, those are just the obvious quotes but that's the tone through the whole thing
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 22 August 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/damon-baehrel-the-most-exclusive-restaurant-in-america
― Mordy, Sunday, 28 August 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
that was really fun. weird last couple of grafs tho?? like they had to hurry out the edit for publication. odd.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 August 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
like, did he ask him about the thinly sliced tuber dish thingy or what??? what happened?!?!?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 August 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
great article. I love how it turns into a true crime style halfway through
― calstars, Monday, 29 August 2016 00:53 (seven years ago) link
i was coming here to post that. i love stuff about weird frauds, like that one other New Yorker article about the dentist who cheated in all the marathons.
― slam dunk, Sunday, 4 September 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
I love the feeling, reading it through, that he's resisting the "if this guy didn't exist, foodies would have to invent him" line, and then after so many failed fact finding / checking attempts, *shrug* fuck it. If this guy didn't exist, foodies would invent him. "As it stands, we got both" is too easy, so here's a couple more paragraphs instead.
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Monday, 5 September 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
It's really annoying to not be able to follow any newyorker.com link without having to double check the byline to make sure it's not fucking Borowitz.
― Dan I., Friday, 9 September 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link
pretty easy to tell by the title that it's borowitz, isn't it?
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Friday, 9 September 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link
Long profile of NY Times restaurant critic Pete Wells is good. In that aspirational mode of "What would it be like to walk into a hot Manhattan restaurant and have everyone kowtow to you?" but good and vivid.
― otm in the rain (Eazy), Friday, 9 September 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
Looking forward to that one. From what/who I know, reviewing restaurants is both one of the hardest gigs to land and one of the hardest gigs to keep up.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 September 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
Wow, Wells article was even better than expected. Cool to learn he sometimes reaches for Oblique Strategies when he's stumped in a review, and that one of his frequent dining companions is who I took to be Steve Wynn of the Dream Syndicate.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 September 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link