New Yorker magazine alert thread

The Tessa Hadley story in this week's issue was at least as interesting as that article about the Surgeon to the Stars.

i'm not proud of most of this, but it's how i manage getting through each week's issue and keep myself sane. also i'm not that interested in short fiction in general, though they often have authors i like in the NYer.

i am proud of never reading david sedaris pieces, that guy sucks

i'm not proud of most of this, but it's how i manage getting through each week's issue

Same

If you cancel and wait them out, they'll eventually send a better deal. I cancelled in spring 2023 and after about 10 months, I got mailed an offer to get 12 months for $50. I'm a pretty casual New Yorker reader so the gap in my subscription doesn't bother me

ditto and we didn’t even wait 10 months it was more like 1 or 2 if even. my bf was the one who did all the negotiating over the phone but we got a drastically reduced subscription
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 25, 2024 6:31 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

if you have a .edu address you get a nice discount too — I think my rate is 69.99/yr

I jump to the restaurant review and any long-form pieces about scammers or people putting themselves in uncomfortable & inadvisable situations (y'know, trekking across Antarctica or spending millions of dollars getting to the bottom of the ocean, etc).

I go right to pieces about like Ja Rule opening a nail salon or Slick Rick's line of magnet poetry.

And he might be reelected for decades.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 24, 2024 5:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I wouldn’t worry about this too much. he’s in his mid-50s, is 6 foot 8 and overweight, has heart failure, and already had a stroke

also, a terrible driver

I sometimes skip long features about international subjects (sorry, Jon Lee Anderson!)

Anderson is my current favorite of the staff writers. Always amazed how he gets through the most dangerous parts of the world, reports on whatever complicated conflict is going on there, and gets out. I mean, he got to Haiti and met with Barbecue last year!

I did like his Personal History about hitchhiking around the world as a teenager in the '70s.

people putting themselves in uncomfortable & inadvisable situations

this one was really good:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/the-woman-who-spent-five-hundred-days-in-a-cave

Yes exactly right, a perfect example of the form.

I wouldn’t worry about this too much. he’s in his mid-50s, is 6 foot 8 and overweight, has heart failure, and already had a stroke

― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, June 25, 2024 2:42 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

also, a terrible driver

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes),

otm

Back when I subscribed - I dropped off last fall because it got too expensive and I wasn’t reading enough for it to be worth it - was largely about the movie reviews, the music blurbs, the book reviews, the occasional big feature. The poetry sometimes, the fiction less often, when it was a fiction writer I was into.

What I pretty much always read and was always reliably delighted by: Peter Schjeldahl, the GOAT.

Same.

I sometimes skip long features about international subjects (sorry, Jon Lee Anderson!)

this is crazy! who else is doing what he’s doing? I’d pay for a quarterly with a single 30 page JLA feature per issue

he really is one of the best

I'm more likely to read him if I'm keeping up with the magazine week to week, as opposed to trying to get through a stack of back issues.

I try to read as much as I can online.