Also yeah took about 1.5 seconds to decide on skipping gopnick/sartre
― tales from endoscopic oceans (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
Patricia Marx on couch-surfing was enjoyable enough and made me want to couch surf.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
someone should find a way to combine couch-surfing, crowd-surfing, and crowd-sourcing and call it couch-sourcing.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
mailman dropped off new issue and i read it in 3 minutes.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
couch-surfing, mecca, russian cooking, croatian party town, zzzzz.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
i'm usually so easily entertained.
travel issue is always the worst. who the fuck wants to read about someone else's vacation?
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
croatoan party town
― tales from endoscopic oceans (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I have been known to skip travel issue in its entirety
― tales from endoscopic oceans (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
that and the style issue
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
oh and the titanic zzzzzzz...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Every article in the style issue is "Fashion Designer X is an artist and not just a guy who makes expensive clothes, no really"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
i like to read about other people's vacations! if they're good writers
― max, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
i don't mind travel stuff if the pictures are nice. or yeah good writers.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
The fact that they rebranded the travel issue as "Journeys" is even worse.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
i love how the couch surfing article painstakingly catalogs all of the rejected surfing opportunities that actually would have made for an interesting article - Marx starts by winnowing out profiles that include the word "party", and then proceeds to reject "a 'lovertarian' who grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania", a Hawaiian describing himself as "just a guy who has three acres of land, living in a shipping container house", a warlord from Kabul, and someone who has the had the hiccups every day for the past five years - before settling on Mrs. Boring McBorringster, a grad student from the University of Iowa.
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
I like my travel stories bland. reaaaaal bland
I didn't mind Gopnick's Camus article so much but I wanted more aphorisms from Camus' notebooks crowing about how hot he was.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 19:24 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this sounds like classic nyer to me, is it def new
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Thursday, 12 April 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
Nicholas Lemann's omnibus review of several books addressing inequality. It's a classic New Yorker review: patient, expert at synthesis.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
Gopnik's piece on forty year nostalgia is really lame (cherry-picks a few cultural phenomena from each decade which are supposed to support his dumb point and ignore everything else.)
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 16 April 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
a Hawaiian describing himself as "just a guy who has three acres of land, living in a shipping container house"
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
Gopnik's piece on forty year nostalgia is really lame
― balls, Monday, 16 April 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
lol as soon as i saw that piece i laffed - "not today new yorker! not today!". i think the only thing i've read w/ a gopnik byline recently (ie since he returned from france)(should not be read as repping for his 'i am le wacky americain living en paris like ze valerie bertinelli and ze david sedaris oui?' pieces btw) is his lame piece on dogs only cuz i'll read anything the new yorker prints on dogs cuz i am part of the problem.
― balls, Monday, 16 April 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
lol didn't mean to add to gopnik pileon. but while i'm here: http://www.tnr.com/article/smugged-reality
― balls, Monday, 16 April 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, April 16, 2012 5:48 PM (4 hours ago)
yeah looking forward to this. this week's issue looks especially strong
― pleural eff u son (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
i was reading it off my iphone while traveling so i may not have given it the attention it deserved, but i thought that lemann review was kinda shallow
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/hidden-protestations-in-plain-sight
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
I've always liked Nicholas Lemann a lot
that Gopnik Camus article, yeesh. I ran out of bathroom reading and started to slog through it, totally worthless.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
i think i have received three of the last five or six new yorkers
fucking post office
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
that gopnik article is very well-reasoned. as just one example:
Our own aughts arrived with the sixties as their lost Eden, right on schedule. That meant too many sixties-pastiche rock bands to mention (think only of Alex Turner, of Arctic Monkeys, sounding exactly like John Lennon),
― High powered Texas lawyer (symsymsym), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
the important group everyone cared a lot abt who sounded just like john lennon the arctic monkeys
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
gopnik you monster
― Masonic Butt (Lamp), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
well to be fair Arctic Monkeys WERE conceived as a Plastic Ono Band tribute
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
The Interior Life of Noel Gallagher: A Speculative History
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
ILXORINTHENEWYORKER alert (self promo alert lol): My boyfriend's taste in ties gets a shoutout in Alex Ross' review of our concert of John Cage's music at Carnegie Hall in this week's New Yorker. Ross also describes me doing thirty pushups and taking off my clothes onstage. It's in his review of the "American Mavericks" series of performances.
― the tune was space, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 05:20 (twelve years ago) link
i thought that lemann review was kinda shallow
well most NY essays are!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
I know that the rep for style/fashion articles is that they tend to be rote, but I thought the Prada/Schiaparelli article is pretty engrossing!
― Trienne of Barf (Leee), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
still vividly remember how much i despised lemann's article about 'pluralism' back in 2008, tho tbh i'm not eager to reread it to find out exactly why.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
Looking forward to the nostalgia piece so I can revel in the transcendent wrongness of anything Gopnik has to say about (among other things) pop music. Hope that Arctic Monkeys argument is just the tip of the iceberg.
Love the Wolcott review - "I sometimes wonder if Adam Gopnik was put on this earth to annoy. If so, mission accomplished."
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 08:45 (twelve years ago) link
Has anyone here read the Renata Adler tell-all that Wolcott quotes from? Is it as juicy as it sounds?
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
Adler quote about Gopnick: ""I had learned over the course of conversations with Mr. Gopnik that his questions were not questions, or even quite soundings. Their purpose was to maneuver you into advising him to do what he would, in any case, walk over corpses to do."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
A+
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
gun control piece was my fave this week
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
Walcott is so mean!
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Is that Adler book the one that blames everything on Pauline Kael?
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
dear god why does this thing come every week, how are they all sitting around in my room
― raw feel vegan (silby), Thursday, 19 April 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
i've got 3.5 piled up now :(
― pleural eff u son (k3vin k.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
it's not even the reading pile that vexes me, just that when it comes to my losing battle against entropy they are on the side of the enemy
― raw feel vegan (silby), Thursday, 19 April 2012 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
3.5 is NOTHING! I have, like, 3.5 DOZEN waiting in the wings.
― quincie, Thursday, 19 April 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link