New Yorker magazine alert thread

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

just the idea of scores of lawsuits that are (county w/e) vs. (some physical object) is so nuts to me, sounds like a bad joke

kelefeh on msnbc isnt really anything groundbreaking but its a good read

Jill Lepore's brief essay/review of the new Woodrow Wilson bio is a tentative (re)assessment of a progressive sumbitch.

Shark piece was good. I (like everyone) am so used to saying "great white shark" that it was jarring to read something that simply referred to them as "white sharks."

the panda article has to be the first use of "electro-ejaculation" in the nyer

theres also a good letter ref'ing the civil forfeiture article abt knowledge of the law against structuring cash bank deposits to avoid the $10k notification requirment & a client of his who lost $100K from proceeds she had kept in her basement for years and then put in various accts from her job @ subway??

Didn't Nicholson Baker use the phrase in his article on LCD screens?

hm u know it was prob in the paul haggis scientology article my bad

It's all over the place. They're gonna change it to "Electro-ejaculation of the Town" in the new year.

So: Claire Danes. Should I read this?

not sure she posts here haha

ask jim franco

Claire Danes thing was OK. Was expecting a mention of the whole Billy Crudup/Mary Louise Parker saga.

Stuff about her training as a dancer and how this impacts her acting was p interesting.

I'm not a fan in particular but thought it was pretty interesting.

want to start a thread about the article this week about the increase in the number of people who believe they are part of a truman show-esque reality tv show but it's a subscriber-only article

how long til they are available for cheapskates to read, usually?

that sounds cool

i think most stuff just stays subscriber-only forever, via the online archives

it's pretty interesting but one of those articles i wish was longer. the broader context is about how the time and area where psychotics live affects how their psychosis manifests itself.

I liked that article fine, but it felt overly familiar. Has the NYer been doing a lot of schizophrenia stuff or is that just me? They have definitely been hitting the "medical" theme pretty hard in the past couple of years.