New Yorker magazine alert thread

i realized i basically subscribe to the new yorker for the true crime stories

vanity fair has really good true crime abt rich people

the koch bros/PBS thing was depressing, i saw that film (can't remember if i saw it in PBS or netflix) and it was decent muckraking but not very well executed.

Vanity Fair/Esquire/GQ/Wired/New Yorker/New York are all good for blue collar crime writing

do you mean white collar?

yeah, duh. i have no collar.

who will report on barechested crime

i like tshirt crimes

sweater crime

Backgammon article is pretty entertaining.

who will report on barechested crime

"COPS," usually.

this in the styrofoam mushroom article freaked me the fuk out

A student from Kuwait suggested a public-area surveillance device that would detect people with incapacitating depression; then professionals could intervene and stop suicides.

was wondering why these weren't showing up in my mailbox for the last few weeks but then I got a notice that my subscription has ended. My dad was paying for it so I guess I'll hassle him about it.

the brief Kim Gordon profile was okay.

Her dog's name is Syd Barrett!

so now it's established both kim gordon & lorrie moore are riggins fans

It quotes an ilxor!

George Packer on tech and politics is pretty awesome, which has a followup blog post. Does he always insert editorial asides into his political pieces/is he the only NYer contributor who does that, or does he save that treatment for libertarians?

lemme guess, the bike in cleveland that yelled 'go back to art school, you faggots!' ?

**biker

hey they have updated the digital/archive edition, sorta. higher res. still jpgs.

Ripley piece is good

George Packer on tech and politics is pretty awesome, which has a followup blog post. Does he always insert editorial asides into his political pieces/is he the only NYer contributor who does that, or does he save that treatment for libertarians?

― Ou sont les Sonneywolferines d'antan? (Leee), Saturday, June 1, 2013 11:38 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this was pretty crucial reading.

ooh if it's a sequel of sorts to his libertarian billionaire one i'm looking forward to it

http://observer.com/2013/05/things-fall-apart-in-the-unwinding-george-packer-aims-for-dos-passos-comes-up-sub-gladwell

biggest o_O of the gordon profile was that not only can j mascis afford to live in sonic youth's neighborhood, he was there first (and drives a lexus suv?!)

George Packer on tech and politics is pretty awesome,

hoping his new book is this sharp

biggest o_O of the gordon profile was that not only can j mascis afford to live in sonic youth's neighborhood, he was there first (and drives a lexus suv?!)

― discreet, Sunday, June 2, 2013 2:40 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

j mascis is from western mass iirc

Mascis doesn't live in the same neighborhood...he lives across the river in Amherst, where he grew up.

we need an indie star map

https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=Ay5GWBeob_WIPLDYoIWcfVXxvZu9XwJ55OX7Ag,16m7TKfyB_Wvm1YzMjgkb-eeGG_Pnwg6iuOisHZUfKtUshvnUcpkf5VaG3CKgO1kAFQzYO6LW-JU3Q_ra6chuCgmExB5WCyhOcm3laykqnErJQ8Hq7j5BDc5FWpSMIS4D4rqulJ5YWZBr0D5lkoDDH_GzQ5De0_R7gmi2ogjFjXZHfqivz6A5DBNwx8

I don't think it's an exclusive neighborhood. It's a bunch of college towns in the sticks. Wayne and Kate of Magic Hour/Twisted Village lived around there too. And Byron Coley.

man that Ripley review brought back memories. Anyone else a fan of the Jack Palance-hosted eighties show?

Anybody mention the PTSD sniper and other vet story. That was brutal.

Good issue last week. Agree about the sniper story, ugh.

Oh, fiction issue, thank you for delivering sweet relief.

big toobin fan but his NSA comment is awwwful

Anyone read the fiction? The Lahiri story was okay.

echoing praise/awe for the sniper/ptsd story 2 issues ago

I'd like to hear fiction recs from someone who has read them. . . sounds like Lahiri is meh? What about the others?

i liked the atm password story bc it was short and kind of funny. that was the only one i read all of. the end.

that sniper story

holy fuck

that one stood out for being pretty rigorously unopinionated

i mean it allowed the sniper guy to seem like a big asshole a lot of time

and it carefully avoided a stance on whether gun ranges as therapy was a good idea

well it seemed so unopinionated as to BE opinionated

really, a good fiction issue? I feel like I haven't been thrilled by the fiction issue in years, or by almost any fiction I read in the NYer other than people I already know and love like George Saunders and Donald Antrim.

like, the writerly equivalent of :|

not a typical news story/article because the pieces don't fit together

there's all the weird stuff about the sniper's colorful fabulations and racist good ol' boy jokes

but also about his generosity and loyalty

which never gets resolved

instead he is shot to death by some deranged soldier

well it seemed so unopinionated as to BE opinionated

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, June 10, 2013 3:58 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

explain

well i think it basically leaves it up to u, the reader, but it seemed to be clearly written from a POV, and the lack of editorializing was quite conspicuous