When the New Yorker Festival started, it was just about the music, maaan. Being with friends out in the woods and discovering new bands. Then came the drugs and the costumes and the wacky flags and shit.
― Moves like Javert (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
festivals and conferences are times when a profession gets to restate and redefine who they are, who's in the club, what their focus is, etc. - i'd even argue that is their point, above any actual information that gets shared (who actually ends up reading thru any of those presentations afterwards?)
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
in the future citing ilx will be best practice
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link
lol, this already happens, if you didn't know:
https://books.google.com/books?id=ed9GAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq=president+keyes+i+love+music&source=bl&ots=5DnuAhuli2&sig=DB7JVVtRb3WdkLMY8wl3gf-qCiQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_9cHP_uHKAhWD5BoKHT-5CtgQ6AEIQTAJ#v=onepage&q=president%20keyes%20i%20love%20music&f=false
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
NYT Business section today calls the NYer Fest "fantasy camp for liberals"
Roger Stone has appeared in the past
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
the past, where roger stone belongs
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
I don’t read tons of film reviews so my basis for comparison is limited but my god could anyone be more of a useless bore than Anthony Lane?
― faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, 8 September 2018 01:46 (five years ago) link
Like where does he get off using all these fucking similes in a 700 word movie review
― faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, 8 September 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
P.G. Wodehouse wannabe
― Josefa, Saturday, 8 September 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
is there a way to download the audio of the magazine articles onto my phone? I can’t figure out a way to downlod the audio from the NYer app, and apparently I have to pay to use audim
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 23 October 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
This was really good.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture/amp?__twitter_impression=true
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
There was an interesting article about color and sculpture in the NY Review also a few months ago:
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/07/19/sculpture-bodies-spitting-image/
― o. nate, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
I think Patricia Marx has justified her whole shtick with the robot piece in 11/26
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 04:27 (five years ago) link
If they offered a subscription with just archival issues every week, I would sign up.z
― o. nate, Friday, 30 November 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
it would be awesome to be able to access the archives without using that lame viewer
― President Keyes, Friday, 30 November 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
I actually have the complete archives on DVD thing, though god knows if it still works on a modern OS. Having a curated selection each week in print would be worth paying for IMO.
― o. nate, Friday, 30 November 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/did-capital-punishment-create-morality
― Mordy, Friday, 15 February 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
so i should read past 'alpha males' in the subhead?
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 February 2019 02:41 (five years ago) link
Haven't read this yet, but the brief synopsis in the NY Times is intriguing:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died
― o. nate, Monday, 1 April 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
That story is controversial:
There is so much that’s suspicious about this @NewYorker story that my bullshit alarm is going off at full blast. @SteveBrusatte is already on this, but wow... this is someone with a severe case of Bakkeritis trying to fast track fame. https://t.co/MQKF4ELLFN— Riley 🏴☠️ Skeleton Keys! (@Laelaps) March 29, 2019
― lukas, Monday, 1 April 2019 01:43 (five years ago) link
oopsThat's the beginning of a long thread
― lukas, Monday, 1 April 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link
yeah i was suspicious because the atlantic (?) story from a while back convinced me about the mendacity of the lost weekend theory
― cheese canopy (map), Monday, 1 April 2019 02:04 (five years ago) link
Fwiw my neighbor Roy is a paleontologist (!) and while he agrees this dude is a showboater and that no one likes a showboater, he thinks what is being reported is a huge deal.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
Dude is Brian DePalma's cousin, so maybe a taste for show-biz runs in the family. I was impressed by the imagination it would take for someone to look at what to most people would probably look like a few crumbly fish bones (as it even did to the professional fossil hunter who tipped DePalma to the site after losing interest in it) and imagine how it could connect so many dots.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
did anyone read jill lepore's new book yet?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 19 May 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
The one about America? I already am dangerously fond of America, not sure I should risk it
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Sunday, 19 May 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
It's good and often excellent, despite smart cavils I've read.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 May 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
I don’t really know enough about paleontology to comment on the specific scientific controversies, but that “day the dinosaurs died” was a beautiful, riveting read
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 29 May 2019 04:54 (four years ago) link
It’s really baffling to me how that Jia Tolentino piece on Ecstasy got published.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
lmao rt
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
i thought it was p good
― FernandoHierro, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:30 (four years ago) link
Apparently it’s an excerpt from a forthcoming book. It would have been a fine but still kinda unremarkable blog post but I guess I still have idealized notions that the magazine print standards should be higher.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
Haven't read that Jia piece, but generally think she's pretty consistent and great, would be surprised if it was more boring than any last 10 years of John McPhee
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
The piece on Rhiannon Giddens was pretty good, I thought: a nice mix of deeply researched background, breezy personable interviews, and cultural context.
― mitt the hoopla (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
john jeremiah sullivan dead to me after his lil peep obituary but i'll check that out
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
i thought there was some great writing in the tolentino piece. i'm seldom disappointed by her articles tbh.
i like the article about the football (soccer) leaks in europe too, this week.
― FernandoHierro, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
if pretty sentences can get you through the passages on lean, more power to you
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
what did you think was bad about that part? i don't remember that bit standing out but i dunno if i'm missing something as a euro.
i think the stuff about ecstasy spliced with the religious bits interested me, it was quite a personal story but overall made me consider my use of ecstasy in a new light. i guess by well written i don't really mean pretty sentences so much as well-expressed thoughts, though the sentences i'm sure were fine.
― FernandoHierro, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
The Sullivan piece was okay. I loved the Hogg profile last week and this week's piece on those alcoholic Canadian chefs.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
I haven’t done Ecstasy but her descriptions of being on the drug sounded utterly banal to me. The lean stuff seemed a gratuitous way to tie her kinda bland childhood to something interesting that also happened in Houston.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
give it a go sometime
― FernandoHierro, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
only way i ever read the new yorker
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
i take a half while perusing daily shouts then i double drop for the week's detached, plotless fiction
― FernandoHierro, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
i do a pill bucket then read borowitz
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
rolling shouts and murmurs
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
liked this from the joe beef article:
McMillan remains proudly chauvinistic about Montreal’s dining scene. “I had two eighteen-year-old girls from Laval”—a suburb of Montreal—“the other day, who were having a meal at Joe Beef before going out to a night club, and they were having deer liver medium rare,” he said. “Show me a restaurant in Manhattan that has deer liver, and then show me two eighteen-year-old girls from New Jersey eating it—and loving it—medium rare.”
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 2 June 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
What's funny is my wife and I had a great meal there, but I would by no means describe it as decadent. Our specific meal, that is. Our server (from France, who admitted she struggled for a long time with Quebec French) did a great job guiding our selections, and I want to say the final results were heavy on seafood and fresh vegetables, not too much wine, not too expensive. And not heavy. We left full and satisfied, but we did not feel gorged. I think if you go in there looking to get stuffed and blitzed, they can/will do that, too.
This is, however, perhaps the third long piece on McMillan and Joe Beef I have read or heard in recent months. So much so that my wife skipped the article, saying "I'm tired of hearing his story." Usually the New Yorker doesn't tread over such familiar ground.
Talk about indulgent, the Houston article was stupid and boring.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 June 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
the other joe beef articles i've read have not mentioned their chauvinism or how their alcoholism created a bad work environment
― just sayin, Sunday, 2 June 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
I guess? I just assumed that was a given, because restaurant industry.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 June 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link