New Yorker magazine alert thread

documentary abt that french impostor grann wrote abt http://kottke.org/12/06/the-impostor

this is awesome: david grann discusses researching his most recent article - http://www.niemanstoryboard.org/2012/06/08/david-grann-on-the-making-of-the-yankee-comandante/

how much does someone like Grann make for a big NYer story like that?

if he's a staff writer hes salaried at ~100k a/y iirc

Just finished that story. Amazing.

I take it back the SF article is awesome and btw the Ray Bradbury one ;_;

I mean issue

Also smh at hating on Ursula K Leguin

Just read the Jennifer Egan story in the sci-fi issue, very entertaining. I can't decide what I think of her, exactly, but I do think she's good at what she does.

Sexy philanthropy article is so much awesome for its schadenfreude.

Haven't seen this week's issue yet but I'm a fan of this sentence. ^^^

It's a few weeks old, that article, actually.

&*%$ New Yorker!

how much does someone like Grann make for a big NYer story like that?

I think the gist is that staff get paid low six figures and are basically given a very long leash, required to submit so many thousand words a year in some shape or form but mostly left to write and research.

Hey, want to hear something cool? Apparently I was on the cover of the New Yorker's mother's day issue, in cartoon form, with my kids!

What issue was the Grann article in

Ps cool josh

so in 2012 we need a Ben Stiller profile that takes up half the magazine?

Dude's a rising star. "Greenberg," "Night in the Museum 2," etc. Going places.

http://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2012/06/18/le-guin-s-hypothesis/

I blame Tad Friend.

The current issue is really boring IMO. Generally find their US political coverage to be blah, and I also think they kind of over-cover the middle east. Right now would be a good time for some articles on Europe.

hah!

"The trouble with the Litfic vs Genre idea is that what looks like a reasonable distinction of varieties of fiction always hides a value judgment: Lit superior, Genre inferior. Sticking in a middle category of Good Bad Books is no help. You might just as well make another one, Bad Good Books, which everybody could fill at their whim — mine would contain a whole lot of Booker Prize winners..."

Sorry I mean the June 18 issue.

Seth McFarlane = no one cares
Obama article = zzz
Mid-east elections article = zzz
Evangelical Preacher guy = sort of entertaining, but very standard "OMG look how crazy and backward these people are" fare

Apparently I was on the cover of the New Yorker's mother's day issue, in cartoon form, with my kids!

Awesome. Was that an accurate depiction of the parenting scene in O.P.?

Evangelical Preacher guy = sort of entertaining, but very standard "OMG look how crazy and backward these people are" fare

I didn't read this, but I was amused to learn that the guy attacked the New Yorker piece primarily for its overuse of exclamation points in quotes attributed to him.

via alfred

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/07/02/120702crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=all

thought it makes a valid point but geez I wish people would stop it w/ noble savages and all that

excited to read the menand essay

Hated that Kolbert piece. Wish someone would write a story about all the machete-wielding jungle kids who don't make it. Reason I don't let my kids clean the house is because I'd rather clean the house than clean the house and clean up the mess they make cleaning the house.

I started that Ben Stiller piece, which I thought would be an OK state-of-Hollywood profile, but then it keeps going, and going, and the movie they keep describing him trying to make sounds sooooo bad, like "Bruce Almighty 2" or something.

The big prob with that preacher is he's so influential. And as a follow-up to Romney's gay spokesman getting the message to resign, Jane Mayer recently quoted the preacher's on-air amazement, re if Romney would cave in to "some little hick like me," what would he do when dealing with evil foreigners etc?

The Mexico article this week covers much the same ground as the NY Times magazine a few weeks back, but is still a great read.

A good friend of mine shot this week's preacher photo.

The Menand essay is just ok: his usual smooth job of introducing a subject to a general audience who this time probably knows a litle about Joyce.

via alfred

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/07/02/120702crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=all

thought it makes a valid point but geez I wish people would stop it w/ noble savages and all that

― Faith in Humanity: Restored (dayo), Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:54 (Yesterday) Permalink

This is everywhere in parenting right now, unfortunately. "Traditional societies" is the buzzword. Unless you're conservative, in which case it's "the french." But no matter how you slice it, americans are doing in wrong.

love how the two model parenting methods are remote jungle tribe and...the french.

i don't know why that seemed so funny to me.

i definitely agree with a stuff in that article. big time. i made my kids clean stuff for, like, 15 minutes after i read that.

Yeah, it's a great dichotomy. We're either too out of touch with our primal natures or not civilized enough, depending on who you ask.

i made my kids clean stuff for, like, 15 minutes after i read that.

My two-year-old niece's knuckles are still bleeding from scrubbing the bathroom tile.

there's a lot i could say about that article but maybe not here. boring state of parenthood stuff.

It does not make a valid point and it's a horrible article and I can't believe any of you were swayed by it. This was a terrible issue btw.

*goes to his room and bawls hysterically until x-box connected*

We're either too out of touch with our primal natures or not civilized enough, depending on who you ask.

― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Friday, June 29, 2012 10:16 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both!

My kids go or went to Montessori school, which makes self-suffience a priority. That is, pour your own milk, use real glasses, that sort of thing. But I still know better than to expect any standard of cleanliness from my kids. Which or course isn't really an issue in the jungle, or (ha) in France, either.

Also, article is misleading, because afaict, the French *hate* kids. They exist almost separate from the rest of society there, so I don't know what that person is talking about seeing kids out to dinner all the time. I highly doubt it. I can also almost guarantee that the French parent their kids in a way that would seem antiquated to Americans. I bet the dads do jack shit and don't even know how to do the laundry. I have a hunch the French would look at our rise in stay at home dads and scoff, since it's a woman's job to take care of children, etc. Anyway, fuck the French and their bad example. My kids are better.

well, there was that line about French parents letting their kids bawl for ten minutes before doing anything.

josh, france expert

The French hate their kids. That's why they all turn out so French.

Did you know there's a place in France where the ladies wear no pants?

Oui, it's true!

do u have visual confirmation of this and if so how

There's a hole in the wall where the boys can see it all. A kid told me.

Actually, not that I can vouch 100% for its accuracy, but I like to tell other parents about a Times article I read once about doing Paris with kids. I recall thinking, really, Paris, with kids? So I read this article, and one after the other it's like "there's this great museum, but it's not good for kids, but there is a park across the street ..." or "this restaurant is awesome, though not really kid friendly, but if you go for a snack right at 5pm ..."

Parenting is rife with these grass-is-greener scenarios. For example, they toilet train much fast in China. Why? Well, mainly because diapers are so expensive and, given the population, particularly wasteful there, so kids go without. Fine, except that means that little kids are literally shitting all over the place there. When a toddler has to go in China, they just drop le trou.

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