New Yorker plus the monthly copy of Bon Appetit that has been showing up every month for three years even though I've never paid for it.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 3 March 2017 00:26 (seven years ago) link
When I die it will be under a hoarders stack of those two plus damaged comics and GNs I take from work planning to read
have to say i wasn't really enthralled by the grann excerpt. will still buy the book tho obv
― k3vin k., Saturday, 11 March 2017 03:11 (seven years ago) link
I liked the Paul LaFarge piece on the unusual and ultimately tragic life of H.P. Lovecraft's young protege Robert Barlow.
― o. nate, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:36 (seven years ago) link
The simulation argument piece made me laugh at this casual aside "Many people have imagined this scenario over the years, of course, usually while high."
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 13 March 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link
uh so apols for slight spam, but if any london ilxors are reading this, I have a ticket to see Grann introduce a screening of the film at the bfi tonight at 8.30 and have to stay in for the plumber. Ticket's at the box office. Reply to thread or paul dot clark at britisher yahoo
― sktsh, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
read the herbalife story
lol capitalism
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 March 2017 03:27 (seven years ago) link
we shd use this thread to just dispassionately audit the magazine contents in the hope of once in a while triggering discussion. this wk's ish is great i think; the marantz thing is just so devastating, kind of like the one-a-week talk spots chronicling descent into fascism in this somehow zippy & brutal register. the watch thing really endearing also.
also-also i think the last thing i would have mentioned if this thread was somewhere i habitually mentioned things was the zadie smith billie holiday thing, i never read the fiction but i thought it was like one of those kevin spacey mfa-southern aside to cameras in house of cards, like they could have had him read it for the fiction podcast.
― schlump, Sunday, 19 March 2017 03:05 (seven years ago) link
i miss jack already. used to drink with him and my brother in new milford, ct during the grunge years and he was such a swell guy and so funny. and gary larson still owes him some money. rest in peace.
https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17629612_10158454090190298_4470249223408653381_n.jpg?oh=bf8902157c72b63fc861971ea5089fd8&oe=59534A4F
― scott seward, Friday, 31 March 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/10/death-of-a-dystopian
― Mordy, Friday, 7 April 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
v sad reading that and then going to watch the trailer and all the comments full of ppl caught in the same delusions
― Mordy, Friday, 7 April 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link
the trolls won when reagan did, in retrospect
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 7 April 2017 23:11 (seven years ago) link
That article was intense. Not one I'll forget anytime soon.
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 8 April 2017 00:45 (seven years ago) link
who is rod dreher and why is he trying to fill my neighborhood with catholics?!??!
― Heez, Thursday, 4 May 2017 01:24 (seven years ago) link
he wishes they were eastern orthodox (for now, anyway)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 May 2017 01:38 (seven years ago) link
I liked that profile b/c dude seems p obviously fucked up over his dad and his own lifestyle choices and w/e. Sounds like the religious community he's really looking for is charedi Jews.
― softie (silby), Thursday, 4 May 2017 02:01 (seven years ago) link
sold for parts: exploitation and abuse at the chicken plant
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/exploitation-and-abuse-at-the-chicken-plant
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 May 2017 08:48 (seven years ago) link
I learned a few days ago that Dreher played a major hand in forming the Florida Film Critics Circle; he was apparently some ex officio member in the '90s.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 May 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link
this court case is really something elsehttp://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/what-makes-a-parent
― Mordy, Thursday, 25 May 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
i thought that story was interesting but their case seemed so unique i don't really get how it can really be a test case for anything. they were SO BAD at actually communicating or talking about the status of their relationship.
― na (NA), Thursday, 25 May 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
is it just me or does gunn really not seem to have a case at all?
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 25 May 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
and seems like an awful person
or that if she has a case it opens up a troubling precedent for all kinds of claims we'd consider dubious
― Mordy, Thursday, 25 May 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
it seemed like her case was that she had enough money to keep the case going and put financial pressure on the other woman
― na (NA), Thursday, 25 May 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
xp. that was a particularly terrible way of phrasing that as i don't have any idea whether she has a case under new york state family law, but i mean, from an intuitive point of view this woman is not the child's parent and shouldn't be able to prevent the parent from taking the child to the uk just because she has money
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 25 May 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
The quiddities and agonies rich person introduction doesn't help my feelings toward Gunn.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Thursday, 25 May 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
if anyone remembers his profile from a couple of years back, karl deissiroth, the stanford psychiatrist and neuroscientist, is speaking at my girlfriend's med school graduation.
― k3vin k., Thursday, 25 May 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
just finished that parenthood legal battle case and gunn is basically a monster
― k3vin k., Friday, 16 June 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/how-st-augustine-invented-sex
― Mordy, Sunday, 25 June 2017 03:22 (six years ago) link
I invented sex. You’re welcome, pals.
― the ghost of markers, Sunday, 25 June 2017 08:06 (six years ago) link
Well, for anyone that has been clamoring for a 20-page piece on Texas politics ...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
thoughts?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-case-against-civilization
it's definitely an interesting piece but i found myself feeling v skeptical about its conclusions?
― Mordy, Monday, 18 September 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
Me too, but I loved it and got tons of sparks off it. Really want to read the book about bushmen it cites.
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Monday, 18 September 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
James C. Scott is pretty good but you have to keep in mind his granaries-are-the-enemy-of-the-people thing goes back years and years and years.
Hunter-gatherers don't have pizza or beer so nah. Speaking of which I'm disappointed the piece doesn't even touch on the hypothesis that people went in for the Neolithic revolution because agriculture provides for a steady supply of booze.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 18 September 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
'moral economy of the peasant' is the best Scott imo
― flopson, Monday, 18 September 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
whenever i come across this argument, wonder if they aren't idealizing the experience of tribal societies who happened to luckily live in abundance....for instance cabeza de vaca's account of living in pre-agricultural texas...no thanks.
i plan to read Scott's book though.
― ryan, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
Lillian Ross has died at 99. One of my all-time favorites is her profile of Hemingway. https://t.co/v20xA6LkZM— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) September 20, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 September 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
god it's exhausting reading that. such a bloviating old gasbag that seems conjured, an antic fictional character. those constant sporting metaphors, the shadow-boxing. hemingway really was a pos.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 September 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
clearly you are NOT AN AMERICAN
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 September 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link
unbelievably controlled writing. the picture she builds up, piece by piece, the oppressiveness of his tics. devastating
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 September 2017 09:04 (six years ago) link
there's something feminist about it, too.. she carefully records who does the unpacking, who keeps track of the toothbrush, who keeps the train on the tracks
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 September 2017 09:34 (six years ago) link
from Adam Gopnick's sharp review of Chernow's U.S. Grant bio:
A student of American prose could hold up Adams’s Grant-bashing memoir against Grant’s own memoir to define the two furthest points of American recollection: one discursive, mordant, allusive, and hyperbolic—exaggeration of affect is the key to Adams’s “education”—the other pointed, reduced, and understated. (Lincoln’s speeches, Grant’s memoirs, and Stephen Crane’s stories are the triple pillars of American stoical prose to this day.) What the two old enemies have in common, significantly, is a natural taste for irony: Grant’s understatements, like Adams’s self-mortifications, are meant to make the narrator seem modest while showing that he sees through everything. Grant underplays savage battles to escape the pretensions of heroic rhetoric; Adams overdramatizes his internal “lessons” to mock the earnest pretensions of intellect to master the commercial world. Grant’s battles have no heroism; they just happen. Adams’s education keeps sending him back to Go.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
Whenever I’m intimidated about how smart Gopnik is, I just have to remember the number of problems he’s solved.
This line of thinking might deserve its own thread.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
Man I don’t know I almost always skip gopnick he is hella annoying
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 28 September 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
^
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 30 September 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
often annoying, but he's not always wrong (except about hockey)
this was otm
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-dangerous-acceptance-of-donald-trump
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 October 2017 02:56 (six years ago) link
I find that there are very few New Yorker writers distinctive enough to be especially irritating. I've probably read dozens of Adam Gopnik pieces and I couldn't tell you a single thing about his writing.
― JRN, Sunday, 1 October 2017 04:19 (six years ago) link
heroic detachment ftw
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 October 2017 04:23 (six years ago) link
Adam Gopkin said 9/11 Manhattan smelled like Mozarella cheese. That's what I remember about him.
― carpet_kaiser, Sunday, 1 October 2017 04:27 (six years ago) link
That is inaccurate btw
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 October 2017 04:41 (six years ago) link