People Who Only Read Literary Fiction, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harpers, Vanity Fair, Instyle, Us, And Metal Magazines

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I love US Weekly now, and even seeing Utne on the shelves at a local bookstore makes me fairly melancholy. I still listen to NPR, but mostly because I don't want to be completely current-events-ignorant, and I find it to be the most soothing of news outlets.

BRITNEY SPEARS FATTEY SHOCKAH

(by the way do you ever read Weird Tales? It's fun to read that while listening to Morbid Angel.)

When Christian Dior asked his dad for some start up money after the war, his father is reported to have said (and I paraphrase of course), "Sure son, though I have to say that at your age I was more interested in taking women's clothes off."

literary fiction: A+
NYTimes: B-
New Yorker: B+
Harpers: C
Vanity Fair: D
InStyle: F
US: A-
Metal Magazines: B+

The Believer rocks - I keep forgetting to subscribe. My favorite subscription is the New York Review of Books.

gq>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>esquire (this issue only)

I really had to stop listening to NPR in the morning. It is just not healthy to get good and pissed off right after waking up. One's first words of the day should not be yelling a groggy "fuck you" at or about some government peckerhead on the radio. I wait until my drive home to listen, as it just seems a bit more healthy and they seem to be more likely to do a 10 minute piece on fly fishing or some town that has a big pancake race on All Things Considered.

Now I read The Register, Slashdot, Engadget, Worthplaying, Joystiq, Securityfocus, Penny Arcade, Achewood, and the free paper they hand out in the morning at the Metro stations, the Washington Post Express. My coworkers Patr1ck and Le0la keep me abreast of world events by reading FARK and BoingBoing headlines out loud in the office sometimes.

Soon my brain will look like this:

And shortly after that occurs I plan to complete my MS!

I read New Republic, Atlantic Monthly (30% of time), Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Cahiers du Cinema, Wired, New Yorker, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and occasionally the Economist. No radio. I used to watch NOW w./ Bill Moyers, but it's not good anymore.

usually read: 1/2 GQ, Esquire, PDN (Photo District News), various photo mags, Film Comment, a couple of indie film mags (MovieMaker, etc.), Mass Appeal

sometimes:The Progressive/The Nation/Mother Jones when they have something good, ArtForum and their ilk when they have something worth reading and also to curse their profiles of art collectors

I like to look at the pretty ads: Fader

thankfully a lot of the magazines I like are bi-monthly or quarterly

Harper's was good for the Readings section, but otherwise it was often crap. Lewis Lapham needs to be shot.

why.

what is the best leftist mag people? IF i get an economist subscrip for my birthday lke i WANT, i wd like to get some kind of balancing act going there.

I love Chomsky more than most people seem to any more, but he's just one writer. I don't understand focusing that much on his absence from the Nation.

HAHA. God forbid it should appeal to anyone outside *The Left*.

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Mother Jones sometimes has good stuff (water privatization, corporate campaign financing), but not enough to make me subscribe. Utne is atrocious.

Re: The Nation, Scott OTM. My guess, though, is that it may partly be a budget issue, i.e. reporting costs more money than opining. But I lost all respect for The Nation when in their music issue a couple years back they had each staffer print their top 10 "desert island discs." Katrina Vanden Heuvel likes Bob Dylan SHOCKA!

i'm not entirely sure what being editor really means, there: perry anderson owns and runs it, tho i guess probably doesn't oversee day-to-day stuff

zmag is a cia front to undermine the left by promoting utterly lousy writing style as the only acceptable radical approach

I like a lot of the writing. Maybe I'm sick. Actually, I haven't even been reading it lately. I like John Stuart Mill's prose--does that make me strange?

some zstuff is fine, esp. one-offs, but the more prolific a contributor is, the more tedious - or just generally awful - their prose seems to become

A friend talking about Vanity Fair:

it always follows that formula. "but john didn't care about the women. he had the women. john wanted to feel important. and when he wanted to feel important, he needed medication. his medication: Nicaraguan cocaine."

you needed energy. when you needed energy, you needed coke. when you needed coke, you called jim wasserman.

everything's gotta be a narrator from a really terrible scorsese movie

James Truman! I haven't thought about him in a long time. He has a hip new veggie restaurant:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/dining/nix-restaurant-review-greenwich-village.html?hpw&rref=food&WT.nav=bottom-well&module=Endslate®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=EndSlate&action=Click&contentCollection=Food&slideshowTitle=Nix¤tSlide=Endslate&entrySlide=1&pgtype=imageslideshow

in 2013 though:

Of all the new careers one might expect for a 55-year-old former publishing executive, part-time record producer is not the most likely.

Yet there was James Truman one night last winter, standing in the Boom Boom Room on the top floor of the Standard Hotel, sipping a vodka gimlet as he awaited a performance by Sebastien Leon, the young musician with whom he had been working for 18 months.

The two met in Mustique a couple of years back. Mr. Truman was staying with his friend Bryan Ferry, and went into a restaurant at which Mr. Leon showed up, guitar in hand, to serenade the crowd. They bonded over a love of Serge Gainsbourg, and in short order Mr. Truman booked a studio. There, they recorded a debut album filled with melancholy songs, many about the recent demise of Mr. Leon’s marriage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/fashion/james-truman-a-crown-prince-in-a-new-kingdom.html

Mr. Leon was somewhat surprised it took as long as it did to complete the album, but as he put it after his show, “James is very busy.”

That he is. In just the last eight years, since resigning from his perch at Condé Nast, Mr. Truman has taken on a somewhat surprising array of projects. He is a creative adviser to Francis Ford Coppola on his wine business and growing hotel empire; with the hotelier André Balazs, he has been running an organic farm upstate called Locusts on Hudson, which supplies organic foods to the Standard Hotel; and with Sunny Bates, an entrepreneur involved in the TED Conference, he started a short-lived circus that Ms. Bates described as a “kind of mashed-up TED, Burning Man and the circus coming into town.”

wow, i started this thread before my sci-fi awakening.

Texas Monthly is so awesome. Well, what i read from it online anyway. And they have the best website. Every magazine should look at their website and then copy it.

i can't listen to npr anymore. i haven't since the election. these two things MAY be connected.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:49 PM (twelve years ago)

diff election but this is true for me also :(

Economist, Financial Times, subscribe to but only selectively read NYT and WaPo, VideoScope, Screem, Filmfax, Shock Cinema, Rue Morgue, and most of Marvel's output. Occasionally also Make, Education Next, and (unsurprisingly, perhaps) ADDitude. There's probably something wrong with my brain but I'm okay with it.

i have to break down and get a stupid subscription to the stupid washington post. i never thought i'd have to do it but i guess i do. thanks, trump.

the only print mag i still read is decibel. and that's because they send me a copy. i was reading tape op because i got one of those free subscriptions. i never thought i would be such a magazine-less person. i was such a magazine person!

I want to move next to OL so I can loot his recycling bins

people who only read extensively footnoted history books, wikipedia articles, and cracked.com

I get a free subscription to Down Beat because I vote in their critics' poll (and have written a couple of articles for them). I read The Wire digitally. I read individual articles from the Washington Post and, less frequently, the New York Times via incognito browser windows. That's about all I have time for these days.

Back when I was commuting into NYC every weekday I used to buy the New Yorker almost every week. Now I don't even remember to look at their website to see if there's anything I might want to read.

i stopped my new yorker subsription when i realized I had 2 years worth of unread editions and I would never ever catch up

maria gets the maria delivered to the house and i never even look at them! so weird. i used to read them cover to cover years ago.

maria get the NEW YORKER delivered to the house...

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