New Yorker magazine alert thread

online for all now http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/05/130805fa_fact_levy?currentPage=all

yea it's an amazing piece

just read it this morning. wow.

A novelist couldn't have come up with Goddard's line about jackrabbits and her new boyfriend.

she is a truly frightening person

yeah the little throwaway comments gave me a def nancy grace famehound vibe

cant shake "gravy legs" from bouncing around inside my head

ha otm

civil forfeiture piece was amazing, also wished batuman's article about the mysterious balkan kidney disease was longer

that one was good but i felt like it kinda underplayed the conclusion which was the disease is mysterious because of missing databases and bureaucratic infighting

yeah it felt like it could have been laid out more clearly which is why i wish it was longer

that conclusion is kinda unsatisfying from a storytelling perspective, felt like she was going for a more experiential vibe

civil forfeiture was v eye-opening for me, I had no idea that went on as horribly as all of that.

Wow, that piece.

Yeah. Deeply deeply disgusting. Seriously fuck the police.

I mean I just cannot get my head around the U.S. vs. One Gold Crucifix, I mean how is any of this remotely legal?

Carl Agatha and Hurting need to get on this shit.

everyone's right about the steubenville piece, it's a hell of a read.

agreed

That rape story - wow

The whole thing is crazy but the bit referencing the Boston Marathon bombing is a wacked lil diversion, people can be awful

also like how it had a good old fashioned CNN facepalm moment, it really has it all

wow, civil forfeiture piece is outrageous

i'm sure wendy davis didn't mean for it to sound like this

"I was a nineteen year-old mom. But I wasn't a twenty year old mom, and I wasn't a twenty-two year old mom, because I had that clinic to help me plan my family."

steubenville piece was amazing, at first i thought it was weird how they kept appealing to that goddard idiot as an authority but after a couple pages the real purpose of the piece - the misguidedness and downfalls of Anonymous-type/reddit internet vigilantism - and the fact that levy was just giving her enough rope became clear. (not that any of the non-victim characters in that story come out looking great.)

FSG book piece is cracking me up only one page in

Old school trustifarians

old but: http://www.theawl.com/2011/05/new-yorker-profanity

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/08/the-debate-over-intervention-in-syria.html?mobify=0

george packer v. george packer

lol at this
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/steiner.jpg

this paintings donation guy piece is blowing my mind. do museums just take anything any guy off the street gives them and hang it up?

That's what the article said, Einstein

matt damons gonna direct a movie based on that grann article abt the guatemalan assassination breaking

xpost The piece claims museum basements are filled with fake stuff.

they should make a museum out of it

BTW, the Japanese suicide monk was a beautiful piece. I loved the bit where a) he accepts and advertised low-level monk position and b) when after this hard-ass monastery ordeal, he gets a job flipping burgers and throws everyone off with his impossibly positive work attitude.

anybody read the Sanneh piece on MSNBC?

yes

ya i liked the (anti) suicide monk

ive heard similar stories abt major tibetan buddhist lamas getting menial jobs in exile and being really happy and cool with it, partially cause their level of responsibility had diminished so much, lol

matt damons gonna direct a movie based on that grann article abt the guatemalan assassination breaking

YES. I think I suggested Tony Gilroy should do it.

what did matt say?

so an article about sharks off the coast of massachusetts, called "cape fear"

The student, Fletcher Nightwine, quickly took out his earbuds.

which issue is suicide monk in?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/06/24/130624fa_fact_macfarquhar

I like picking up an old issue and finding an article I missed.

The March 4 issue had been sitting on my kitchen table since it first arrived and I just picked it up on my way out the door the other day. It has a really wonderful story about the local Newtown, CT, newspaper's response/coverage to the school shooting. Everyone in the story (and town, really) come off as decent, civic-minded, good people ("decent" here probably doesn't read as I'd intend, but I can't come up with a better word right now) who are doing their best to keep a sense of normalcy in what sound/reads like the prototypical New England American town.

I have to look up more of Rachel Aviv's stories, because she did a fantastic job of setting the scene, introducing everyone, describing the town, etc. Had me in tears by the end.

Unfortunately, it's subscriber only, but check it out if you can:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/04/130304fa_fact_aviv

civil forfeiture piece was crazy-- i expected it to be depressing but it was more enraging

yeah it's p insane

the way that one sherrif was so convinced he was doing the right thing that he didn't even attempt to cover his own ass in a court deposition