New Yorker magazine alert thread

sometimes it takes a long ass time to figure out why some tweet is posted in a particular thread

One aspect of modern fandom liberalism is to publicize the worst examples of humanity

fixed it for you

ITT: men react to men reacting to Cat Person

Those tweets should be added to the story.

someone on twitter had a very good thread yesterday reiterating that Cat Person is a SHORT STORY not a memoir or essay or thinkpiece, and should be assessed accordingly. relating to characters and their experiences is of course fine, but judging the merit of the story on the rightness or wrongness of the characters' actions is really really dumb. ftr I don't think the New Yorker really did itself or the author much of a favor by publishing an accompanying interview with her about it. not that the author should have to relinquish all authority but maybe let the work speak for itself for at least a little while first.

re: that reaction twitter. It seems more like cathartic mockery of the idea that sjws are the only ones who get "triggered" to me. I don't think anyone expects it to change minds.

ITT: men react to men reacting to Cat Person

men react to men reacting to men reacting to cat person.

http://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-08/4/14/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane01/sub-buzz-21442-1470337110-6.jpg

I hate cats, and I hate hot takes or hot takes about other fucking people's hot takes. So I'm going to remain blissfully ignorant about whatever the fuck Cat Person is, and not feel like I'm missing out on some enlightenment or fun.

it's mostly about putting out fires with gasoline, iirc

It's actually a very good short story!

it's almost insane to which the speed that Twitter chews things up and spits them out, waves of backlash and backlash to the backlash and backlash to the backlash to the backlash and memeifying the whole thing in 24 hours after it's published

like how could anything even exist as a piece of writing or art anymore?

30 years ago you could kick a piece of art down the street

Most fiction writing is safely ignored. It's pretty rare that a piece of short fiction goes viral like this; actually, I can't recall the last time this happened.

lol marcos

love too laugh at people online

The story was surprisingly graphic. I didn't realize the NYer published fiction that explicit.

For what it's worth, I found the story truthful and interesting. Reminded me of Dan Clowes.

the edge of indie miserabilia was the worst part that's true

The NYer almost always publishes an interview online with their short fiction writer of the week, so this was not unusual. People just usually don't care.

the china selfie meitu app article in this weeks is m/l terrifying

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/08/my-fathers-body-at-rest-and-in-motion

Enjoyed this piece quite a bit. Something about the calm tone that makes it a warm bath to ease into, despite the subject matter.

tw suicide

good piece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/jumpers

That Mukherjee piece is great. Thanks. xp

The Osnos piece on China.

enjoyed that — my first attempt at an audio article!

The article on the brain-dead girl is grim and unsettling, but in an engrossing way.

yeah I have that bookmarked, looking forward to reading

New Grann alert

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-darkness

A nice long Grann survivalists-in-harsh-conditions story is just a balm for my soul.

the accompanying images and maps are really amazing

The Grann piece was fun but he did not read as a hero or explorer to me, just a dude doing exactly what he wanted to do for his own ego (lol @ the idea that he was actually making that last expedition to raise $100k for charity) and making bad decisions. It made me really relish being indoors though.

i didn't love the grann piece tbh, it was boring and overlong. mostly i enjoyed the details about the sick shit that happens to your mind and body in that situation.

Yeah it was Lost City of Z but cold and less interesting, more pointless.

Happened to read an essay about hypothermia a couple of days after reading this. was better.

Loved Jill Lepore on Mary W Shelley

Yo yeah me too.

I wanna read Muriel spark Shelley bio now

It's very good.

I'm still reading the Grann piece but it starts off on the wrong foot immediately:

There were no living creatures in sight. Not a bear or even a bird. Nothing but him.

Antarctica has no bears -- polar bears are native to the Arctic (they're not going to traverse the equator not to mention the thousands of miles separating the poles).

yeah that's why they weren't in sight, duh

no hippos either

Or reticulated tarsiers

^ that’s not even a real animal, not sure how i ended up putting those words together

https://www.newyorker.com/crossword/puzzles-dept/introducing-the-new-yorker-crossword-puzzle

well, there's a new yorker puzzle now. hope you all enjoyed getting work done

Peter Hessler's article about his cat Morsi and Cairo expat life was quite enjoyable:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/cairo-a-type-of-love-story

well this is a half baked article but the topic is interesting https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom

just read & enjoyed the ben marcus short story a few issues back

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/30/is-don-wagyus-steak-sandwich-worth-the-hundred-and-eighty-dollar-price-tag

"Yesterday, some stockbrokers ordered them for the floor"

and snorted them