finally got my copy of the Jan 10 issue (i run about 3 weeks behind cover dates, being in the middle of the ocean and all. i'll see them on the news stand before my mailbox)
the freud in china thing was awesome but the story about banana scientists and the story about the sadaam statue were even better. gr8 issue
― gr8080, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i always run about a month and a half late on the mag.
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I used to be great at keeping totally up to date, but lately I've been reading a bunch of random books I got over the holidays so I'm losing my place.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i'm basically a year behind on reading.
i just mean when they actually arrive in my mailbox.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
is the new yorker better than the NYRB or LRB?
― smanghetti bollocknaked (cozen), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
woof!
US: 1 year (47 issues) of The New Yorker for $39.95UK: 47 issues (one year) for $120
― smanghetti bollocknaked (cozen), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
$40 is insane value
― smanghetti bollocknaked (cozen), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
NYer is great for original reportage, but the criticism pales next to NY- or LRB
x-ps
― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 1 February 2011 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a totally different kind of thing to either. not really a ranking decision if you want to subscribe to one.
― caek, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
lrb is £12 per year in the uk, but it's monthly.
― caek, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
ta
thought the LRB was fortnightly, tho it might've changed since my sub lapsed
― smanghetti bollocknaked (cozen), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
oh you are right, it is fortnightly. £12 is for six months.
i get nyrb, which is $109 for european addresses. if you want a mag with short fiction or plenty of up to date criticism of stuff other than academic books and literary fiction then it is not for you. i just like it's very slow style.
― caek, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
its
i got my first 2 years of NYer for $25/year /braggin
― gr8080, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
My mother pays for mine!
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
lol my subscription was also a gift from my mother
― Lamp, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, now I know what to ask my dad for as a birthday present
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
When I was married we maintained two subscriptions so we'd not have to share. Marriage would no doubt have ended sooner had we tried to make due with just one sub.
― quincie, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
^me three
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
tho i asked for it originally & would pay myself
me four. her mom did the same for her so it's a family tradition now.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
the reporter who profiled guillermo del toro in this weeks issue seems a little over obsessed with his weight. like, comically so.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i've had a new yorker subscription for a decade nowlol old
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
xp i agree there were several descriptor details (not just weight stuff, cant remember off hand) that made me cringe
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
It'll be a decade for me this summer. One of the first issues I got featured that Alex Ross article on Radiohead.
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
o one was not eye candy but "eye protein"i guess that might'ev been str8 reportage tho
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah just the constant status updates on his weight like it must be a sign of his anxiousness!!!
― Moreno, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
when my mom visits she always asks why i read the new yorker when i no longer live in new york.
:-/
― Z S, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 05:03 (thirteen years ago) link
no answer will satisfy her
I'm on a $20-something subscription for one year, I randomly got a solicitation letter one day and was all, woah nice deal.
― Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 05:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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lol my friends do this too, it is annoying
― just sayin, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
what, ask? or read it?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 09:58 (thirteen years ago) link
ask
― just sayin, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"why do you read entertainment weekly if you're not an entertainer"
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"why do you read the atlantic monthly if you're not a large body of water"
― Lamp, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, then she'll thumb through the first 20 pages or so and see a bunch of listings for upcoming local NY events, so I guess I can sort of see it. I'm trying to give my mam the benefit of the doubt, dudes
― Z S, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
when people ask me that i just tell them the nyer has hilarious cartoons and that's why i subscribe
― gr8080, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i tell them it's for nancy franklins incisive tv criticism
― just sayin, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i need to know consumer goods prices from patricia marx
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
what is up with patricia marx anyway?
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
she's working it on the avenue
― Prom Dressantino 2011 (Lamp), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
partricia marx stuff is just crazy. how long has she been writing for the magazine?
― just sayin, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes it's funny, but most of the time I start reading it without paying attention and start thinking, when is this interesting article about shopping going to get to the point? Then I notice it's her article and I realize it's just going to be 3 more pages of gift prices and snarky comments.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh fuckin hate patricia marx
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like shes been writing the xmas issue 'upper west siders buy shit' article since i started reading the mag in high school but google says 1989
sometimes i half enjoy the ivy league legacy types @ the new yorker but marx is p worthless & unfunny
― Prom Dressantino 2011 (Lamp), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but as bad as she is, even she isn't as unfunny and uninteresting as shouts and murmurs routinely is.
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
do people find the woody allen shouts & murmurs funny? i can barley get through those and they're only like a page long.
and patricia marx articles are the only ones i skip by byline alone.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder why i don't spend more time being enraged by patricia marx, the way i do with nancy franklin? it's like i forget she exists as soon as i see her byline and think "wtf?"
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't mind Nancy Franklin.
I loved Woody Allen growing up, but his S + M stuff is terrible. Maybe it's no different and I'm the one who changed. I love Jack Handey and a few others. Every few issues there's a S + M that I think is pretty funny.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Did not know that Ben McGrath was only 34.
http://www.newyorker.com/images/contributors/p233/contributor_benmcgrathphoto_p233_crop.jpg
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link