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.
― evol j, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
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.
― rob, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
ITT: men react to men reacting to Cat Person
men react to men reacting to men reacting to cat person.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 11 December 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
http://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-08/4/14/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane01/sub-buzz-21442-1470337110-6.jpg
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 11 December 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
it's mostly about putting out fires with gasoline, iirc
― voodoo chili, Monday, 11 December 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
It's actually a very good short story!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 11 December 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
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 publishedlike how could anything even exist as a piece of writing or art anymore?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 December 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
30 years ago you could kick a piece of art down the street
― marcos, Monday, 11 December 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
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.
― Simon H., Monday, 11 December 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
lol marcos
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 December 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
love too laugh at people online
― k3vin k., Monday, 11 December 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
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.
― dinnerboat, Monday, 11 December 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
the edge of indie miserabilia was the worst part that's true
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 December 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
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.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 06:41 (six years ago) link
the china selfie meitu app article in this weeks is m/l terrifying
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link
tw suicide
good piece
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/jumpers
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 January 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
That Mukherjee piece is great. Thanks. xp
― o. nate, Friday, 5 January 2018 03:20 (six years ago) link
The Osnos piece on China.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 January 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link
enjoyed that — my first attempt at an audio article!
― k3vin k., Friday, 5 January 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
The article on the brain-dead girl is grim and unsettling, but in an engrossing way.
― o. nate, Thursday, 1 February 2018 03:25 (six years ago) link
yeah I have that bookmarked, looking forward to reading
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 February 2018 04:33 (six years ago) link
New Grann alert
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-darkness
― Number None, Friday, 9 February 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
A nice long Grann survivalists-in-harsh-conditions story is just a balm for my soul.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 9 February 2018 01:41 (six years ago) link
the accompanying images and maps are really amazing
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 February 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
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.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
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.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
Yeah it was Lost City of Z but cold and less interesting, more pointless.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
Happened to read an essay about hypothermia a couple of days after reading this. was better.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
Loved Jill Lepore on Mary W Shelley
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
Yo yeah me too.
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
I wanna read Muriel spark Shelley bio now
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
It's very good.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
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).
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link
yeah that's why they weren't in sight, duh
― na (NA), Thursday, 8 March 2018 03:23 (six years ago) link
no hippos either
― President Keyes, Thursday, 8 March 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
Or reticulated tarsiers
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 8 March 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
^ that’s not even a real animal, not sure how i ended up putting those words together
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 8 March 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Monday, 30 April 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
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
― o. nate, Friday, 4 May 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
well this is a half baked article but the topic is interesting https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom
― niels, Friday, 8 June 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
just read & enjoyed the ben marcus short story a few issues back
― johnny crunch, Friday, 8 June 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/30/is-don-wagyus-steak-sandwich-worth-the-hundred-and-eighty-dollar-price-tag
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
"Yesterday, some stockbrokers ordered them for the floor"
― niels, Thursday, 26 July 2018 06:24 (five years ago) link
and snorted them
― President Keyes, Thursday, 26 July 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
Can’t fathom a justification for this. He isn’t in government. He isn’t leading a fringe website anymore. He isn’t interesting. He’s a crank who’s trying (and since Trump, largely failing) to get majority white countries to elect bigots. https://t.co/Qz0NxumU9t— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) September 3, 2018
― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 September 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
they disinvited him, but wtf
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 September 2018 04:42 (five years ago) link
https://festival.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Adam-Schiff-DefaultWP.jpg
FRI, OCT. 5 | 10:00 PM | 90 MINUTESThe Borowitz Report Live with Adam SchiffAndy Borowitz brings his popular column to life onstage. Featuring the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam Schiff.
― velko, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 04:52 (five years ago) link
“popular” my ass
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 04:53 (five years ago) link