New Yorker magazine alert thread

Lol was just going to revive this as I saw this blog/page that talks through the statistical evidence in the Letby case.

https://triedbystats.com/

There is no way I would vote for
Fetterman again, but that’s stating the obvious. I’ve met people like him all my life in PA— they’re all not-so-secretly racist assholes

Lol was just going to revive this as I saw this blog/page that talks through the statistical evidence in the Letby case.

https://triedbystats.com/

― xyzzzz__, Monday, June 24, 2024 5:15 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

shouldn’t you check with your local precinct that this is approved reading material?

lol

just skimmed through. good stuff

There is no way I would vote for Fetterman again, but that’s stating the obvious. I’ve met people like him all my life in PA— they’re all not-so-secretly racist assholes

this is the closest i've ever seen you to admitting you might have been wrong about something!

which is cool. i wasn't in a position to vote for him, but was a fan, and am also deeply disappointed

My subscription expires at the end of July. I only subscribed in the first place so I could pillage their archives for anything and everything they had on Cecil Taylor (which was a lot, going all the way back to 1957), and I don't know if I'm ready to give them another $120. Although I suppose it's a tax writeoff since it could wind up being research for potential future projects.

If you cancel and wait them out, they'll eventually send a better deal. I cancelled in spring 2023 and after about 10 months, I got mailed an offer to get 12 months for $50. I'm a pretty casual New Yorker reader so the gap in my subscription doesn't bother me

just skimmed through. good stuff

― flopson, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Knew you'd like a bar chart

If you cancel and wait them out, they'll eventually send a better deal. I cancelled in spring 2023 and after about 10 months, I got mailed an offer to get 12 months for $50. I'm a pretty casual New Yorker reader so the gap in my subscription doesn't bother me

I got a year via cheap "please come back!" promo, extended it another year cheap, and then some friends gave us a gift sub that extended it one more year. I'll hang around through the centennial next year but probably not after that. Unperson, I'd keep it as a business expense.

things i never read in the new yorker:

letters
talk of the town
shouts & murmurs
long depressing articles about politics or global affairs
anything by patricia marx
fiction
poetry
critical reviews of classical music or theater

but for some reason i always read the restaurant review even though i don't live in NYC

first thing I read in the new yorker:

long depressing articles about politics or global affairs

Ha I religiously read the restaurant reviews too.

first thing I read in the new yorker:

long depressing articles about politics or global affairs

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes)

ha, same.

Followed by Justin Chang's reviews.

as for the archives on jazz, I've really been digging this three issue-spanning profile on Ellington from 1944. So cool to get a sense how he was seen at his peak. Starts here:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1944/06/24/duke-ellington-profile-the-hot-bach-i

The only thing I almost never read is fiction. I also don't make a point of reading the poetry, although it occasionally catches my eye in the middle of the page. I usually at least skim the rest, although I sometimes skip long features about international subjects (sorry, Jon Lee Anderson!) or medium-sized articles in the back of the book about long-dead writers I have scant interest in.

Agreed that Tables for Two is reliably worth reading, especially since Hannah Goldfield became the regular columnist a few years ago. And now it's Helen Rosner, who's pretty good, too. I sometimes miss Goldfield in that space, but glad that she's still on staff, writing longer articles about food and dining.

Everyone seems very proud of themselves for not reading the fiction. I admit it's usually not to my taste, but I will give stories a try now and then.

The Tessa Hadley story in this week's issue was at least as interesting as that article about the Surgeon to the Stars.

i'm not proud of most of this, but it's how i manage getting through each week's issue and keep myself sane. also i'm not that interested in short fiction in general, though they often have authors i like in the NYer.

i am proud of never reading david sedaris pieces, that guy sucks

i'm not proud of most of this, but it's how i manage getting through each week's issue

Same

If you cancel and wait them out, they'll eventually send a better deal. I cancelled in spring 2023 and after about 10 months, I got mailed an offer to get 12 months for $50. I'm a pretty casual New Yorker reader so the gap in my subscription doesn't bother me

ditto and we didn’t even wait 10 months it was more like 1 or 2 if even. my bf was the one who did all the negotiating over the phone but we got a drastically reduced subscription
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 25, 2024 6:31 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

if you have a .edu address you get a nice discount too — I think my rate is 69.99/yr

I jump to the restaurant review and any long-form pieces about scammers or people putting themselves in uncomfortable & inadvisable situations (y'know, trekking across Antarctica or spending millions of dollars getting to the bottom of the ocean, etc).

I go right to pieces about like Ja Rule opening a nail salon or Slick Rick's line of magnet poetry.

And he might be reelected for decades.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 24, 2024 5:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I wouldn’t worry about this too much. he’s in his mid-50s, is 6 foot 8 and overweight, has heart failure, and already had a stroke

also, a terrible driver

I sometimes skip long features about international subjects (sorry, Jon Lee Anderson!)

Anderson is my current favorite of the staff writers. Always amazed how he gets through the most dangerous parts of the world, reports on whatever complicated conflict is going on there, and gets out. I mean, he got to Haiti and met with Barbecue last year!

I did like his Personal History about hitchhiking around the world as a teenager in the '70s.

people putting themselves in uncomfortable & inadvisable situations

this one was really good:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/the-woman-who-spent-five-hundred-days-in-a-cave

Yes exactly right, a perfect example of the form.

I wouldn’t worry about this too much. he’s in his mid-50s, is 6 foot 8 and overweight, has heart failure, and already had a stroke

― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, June 25, 2024 2:42 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

also, a terrible driver

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes),

otm

Back when I subscribed - I dropped off last fall because it got too expensive and I wasn’t reading enough for it to be worth it - was largely about the movie reviews, the music blurbs, the book reviews, the occasional big feature. The poetry sometimes, the fiction less often, when it was a fiction writer I was into.

What I pretty much always read and was always reliably delighted by: Peter Schjeldahl, the GOAT.

Same.

I sometimes skip long features about international subjects (sorry, Jon Lee Anderson!)

this is crazy! who else is doing what he’s doing? I’d pay for a quarterly with a single 30 page JLA feature per issue

he really is one of the best

I'm more likely to read him if I'm keeping up with the magazine week to week, as opposed to trying to get through a stack of back issues.

I try to read as much as I can online.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/02/lucy-letby-found-guilty-of-trying-to-kill-two-hour-old-baby

I read it through my local library via Libby app.

Shocking case, defence were negligible in not challenging more robustly the statistics used to convict her.

― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, May 15, 2024 4:17 AM bookmarkflaglink

Same. It's free with a lot of local library cards. https://libbyapp.com/

Now Letby is proper locked up for lifetimes we have opening of restrictions:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/09/lucy-letby-evidence-experts-question

if we're going to discuss her it should be in a new thread.

I posted as an aftermath of the discussion here. Fell there is not much left to say but sure if anyone wants to.

How about that Last Rave book excerpt though, yeesh, sure makes you feel great about your own life choices and judgements of character huh.

It got Bruce a NYer shoutout though -
Thread of Bruce

was in london last week & none of my friends there think she's innocent, all mostly think that americans getting their info from the new yorker article don't really understand the situation etc. was interesting to hear, as well as somewhat surprising

I don’t have any british friends apart from the lovely posters on this board but it does seem like a peculiar situation, like a culture of normal people you might go to the pub with or catch a soccer match, but also they consume news like north koreans

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like a culture of normal people you might go to the pub with or catch a soccer match, but also they consume news like north koreans

― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 9 July 2024 bookmarkflaglink

That's right

had any of them actually read the new yorker article (getting around the geoblocking) or were they just dismissing it out of hand?

There's a long piece today in the Daily Telegraph, of all places, so the doubting experts are finally getting a hearing. Regardless of her guilt or innocence the conviction is clearly unsafe, although the molasses-like pace of British justice means it'll probably be overturned sometime in the 2040s.