New Yorker magazine alert thread

is the new yorker better than the NYRB or LRB?

woof!

US: 1 year (47 issues) of The New Yorker for $39.95
UK: 47 issues (one year) for $120

$40 is insane value

NYer is great for original reportage, but the criticism pales next to NY- or LRB

x-ps

it's a totally different kind of thing to either. not really a ranking decision if you want to subscribe to one.

lrb is £12 per year in the uk, but it's monthly.

ta

thought the LRB was fortnightly, tho it might've changed since my sub lapsed

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.

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i got my first 2 years of NYer for $25/year /braggin

My mother pays for mine!

lol my subscription was also a gift from my mother

ha, now I know what to ask my dad for as a birthday present

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.

lol my subscription was also a gift from my mother

^me three

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.

the reporter who profiled guillermo del toro in this weeks issue seems a little over obsessed with his weight. like, comically so.

i think i've had a new yorker subscription for a decade now
lol old

xp i agree there were several descriptor details (not just weight stuff, cant remember off hand) that made me cringe

It'll be a decade for me this summer. One of the first issues I got featured that Alex Ross article on Radiohead.

o one was not eye candy but "eye protein"
i guess that might'ev been str8 reportage tho

yeah just the constant status updates on his weight like it must be a sign of his anxiousness!!!

when my mom visits she always asks why i read the new yorker when i no longer live in new york.

:-/

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.

when my mom visits she always asks why i read the new yorker when i no longer live in new york.

:-/

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lol my friends do this too, it is annoying

what, ask? or read it?

ask

"why do you read entertainment weekly if you're not an entertainer"

"why do you read the atlantic monthly if you're not a large body of water"

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

when people ask me that i just tell them the nyer has hilarious cartoons and that's why i subscribe

i tell them it's for nancy franklins incisive tv criticism

i need to know consumer goods prices from patricia marx

what is up with patricia marx anyway?

she's working it on the avenue

partricia marx stuff is just crazy. how long has she been writing for the magazine?

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.

ugh fuckin hate patricia marx

partricia marx stuff is just crazy. how long has she been writing for the magazine?

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

yeah but as bad as she is, even she isn't as unfunny and uninteresting as shouts and murmurs routinely is.

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.

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?"

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.

Did not know that Ben McGrath was only 34.

http://www.newyorker.com/images/contributors/p233/contributor_benmcgrathphoto_p233_crop.jpg

I'm not sure that I've ever laughed, even internally, at Shouts + Murmurs. Not even Woody Allen, and I love that guy.

this was good - What I imagined the people around me were saying when I was...

sad to see bob odenkirk being unfunny in last weeks S&M.

it's like trying to be funny at a funeral; the location makes things more difficult.