New Yorker magazine alert thread

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.

Simon Rich has a lot of funny ones:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/simon_rich/search?contributorName=simon%20rich

I don't care for any of those really.

but that's me i guess.

i don't even bother w/ "shouts & murmurs" anymore

I like a enough of them. Maybe you guys aren't "new yorker" enough. Maybe Hawaii and New Jersey have their own funny magazines for your sensibilities.

lol, dude i am posting from 53rd and 5th. i was mugged on the way in by the statue of liberty.

I AM NY

simon rich and jack handey are the only shouts and murmurs authors worth reading

patricia marx sucks but its harder to be mad about her than nancy franklin b/c theres no reason for them to have only one, terrible tv reviewer, instead of one terrible one and one p good one, the way they do with all the rest of their critics

name names

lane - good
denby - terrible

alex ross - good
sfj - hit or miss

james wood and some of the other bros - ok
adam gopnik - f this dude

poor joan acocella

"some of the other bros"

if you are a(n american) sports fan, it's def worth reading ben mcgrath on concussions in football

― mookieproof, Sunday, January 30, 2011 12:21 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

this one from 2009 is a great read too: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell

― gr8080, Tuesday, February 1, 2011 2:11 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I was like wtf big-upping a Gladwell piece, but after I read it, it's actually a little bit better on both the medical side and the moral side (though I can imagine people thinking that MG is stretching the analogy).

lol malcom gladwell hating is such an ILX cliche

lol so is ur face. ^_^

i'm a big peter schjalujkojahl fan. forget who the other art critic is.

i dont think they have a second art critic. not in the back of the book.

and yea i like schjeldahl too. dont always agree with him but hes a great writer.

I can see that Gopnik is incredibly intelligent and a deft, original prose writer but something about him aggravates the hell out of me. It's self-conscious "fine writing" of the kind that James Wood is always slamming in fiction.

I saw that Ben McGrath was 34 and that he'd first contributed in 2002. I don't know how anyone gets to be a New Yorker contributor but certainly not a 25/26-year-old. Do you just get the call one day? Do you hang around the office until they get tired of telling you no? Do you have to make your bones, mob-style?

WS James Surowiecki any day of the week.

No really, he's hot.

he used to live on my block

Where does he live now, I will run to him

he and his poetess wife moved elsewhere, sorry

john seabrook on crowds/stampedes is v. interesting

ben mcgraths dad used to be the magazines fiction editor

had never heard of that hillsborough soccer disaster, that photo is srsly something -

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01380/HillsboroughDisast_1380793c.jpg

ben mcgraths dad used to be the magazines fiction editor

Mystery solved. Not to say he's not a good writer.

hey someone just posted this to facebook

ahem cobble hill was NOT rough when you moved there in 2002 . . honky please . . i know its the new yorker but still

whats it abt, seems like a good topic to discuss here

true, but the dude wrote that in a piece about his wife dying, so maybe it should slide