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― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 12 April 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
when you're an influencer people just send you things
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 12 April 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
i got so sick of getting it in the mail and putting it straight into the recycling that i emailed david remnick about it. it stopped coming after that.
― adam, Monday, 12 April 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link
you could have put it in a little free library, or given to a local medical waiting room, or just left them at a bus stop
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 12 April 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
Good magazines are not allowed in hospital waiting rooms. Some old executive order issued by Reagan I think
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 12 April 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
Good chance in all four scenarios (including the straight to recycling scenario) that it doesn’t end up getting recycled
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 12 April 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link
Getting read is a better outcome than getting recycled
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 12 April 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
They both end up with dog shit all over the place
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 12 April 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
Borowitz isn't in every issue
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 12 April 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
What the hell with the McPhee piece this week
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 13:31 (three years ago) link
I have adored McPhee for a long time but his last few things were a bit rambling, and not in a fun way.
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
I stopped subscribing for the first time this year, as I barely have time to read enough to finish my degree with a one-year-old toddler, let alone the New Yorker.
I pulled out the articles I still wanna read from 2-3 years of archive, tossed the rest out, and now we have a nice, telephone-book-size pile of paper and staples for my daughter to play with.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
Before the pandemic I took magazines that I had read or wasn't going to read to the fitness center at my workplace. Since the fitness center closed I've been saving these magazines in anticipation of the place reopening.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
I really liked the McPhee piece, you all didn't? A real pleasure to read something not in the standard register, but that still sings. Then again, you could say the same about the short story in this issue whose strange energy appreciated but which I wasn't actually finding myself liking and haven't finished yet. I thought the piece about Native language in Maine was badly written and just kind of off, too bad because the subject is one I really wanted to read about. French tacos piece was fluff but I enjoyed it all the way through. Jack Handey v. good in the exact way he's always good, I've read enough of these for a lifetime but I endorse NYer running them because there are always new readers.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
Oh, I forgot, the Missouri fraternity suicide article, that was also really good. Good issue!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
Was this issue the one with Nathaniel Mackey, or was that last issue? I don't get it because its liberalism makes me nauseous, but sometimes the profiles of artists and writers I admire are great.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
That was the last issue.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
And that was a really interesting piece though I would say that for people like me who haven't read the poetry it doesn't convey any sense of what the poetry is (not for lack of trying), just the person.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link
i also let my subscription lapse this year. they're still coming due to the lag but any week could be the last. usually it updates without my knowing it but this year i had a new credit card and i haven't been reading enough to justify. i mainly read the poems tbh. anyone else like them? i feel like the current poetry editor kevin young is kinda great; the poems are really varied and sometimes have a fun almost slam vibe. couple recent ones i liked Remembering a City and a Sickness By Christian Wiman and My Empire By Kaveh Akbar. also i love the podcast, the recent one with margaret atwood was amazing. my memories of the poems under the former editor paul muldoon were super dull but i wasn't as into poetry then
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
Kevin Young is the poetry editor? I thought he was director of the African American museum at the Smithsonian now.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
I won't comment on the poems.
Mackey is truly one of the great poets and poetic thinkers of our times. His work is really indispensable.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:51 (three years ago) link
haha not surprised you aren't a fan :)
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, April 13, 2021 2:50 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
since 2017. i think he does both. he seems extremely prestigious
flopson, yeah, not my cuppa.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link
The last issue I received was April 5, so I can't comment on any of these more recent pieces. I thought Rachel Aviv's profile of Elizabeth Loftus was really good, though.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
I also have a 700-page book by him (Kevin Young) on my shelf which looks really interesting but which I've been too intimidated to read so far
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link
Bunk, right?
I actually think he's not a bad poet, though I prefer work around similar issues by some of his contemporaries.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, April 13, 2021 2:58 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
xp- any poetry magazine or website that you'd recommend?
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
Bunk is an interesting book. Not exactly what I hoped for when I bought it (I was looking for something more directly Luc Sante-meets-Ricky Jay, rather than a philosophical tome about why human beings are so easily suckered into bullshit), but I'm glad I read it and I keep it around as a potential reference.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link
i haven't read many of his poems, although i watched some videos of him reading on youtube and they were pretty killer. he gets really into it, iirc at the end of one he was visibly perspiring. it was powerful and mb not something that would necessarily hit the same "on the page." i also really like him on the new yorker poetry podcast. you can tell he was like, a really good student in poetry class at Harvard, which makes him a bit tedious, and he can be totally insufferable in combination with a pretentious guest. but he's overall really warm and fun
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
flopson, Poetry Magazine might interest you, as they have a wider range of styles and schools that they publish.
If you're in Canada, the Capilano Review is indispensable (I can't remember where you are, apologies).
Websites? Tbh I only know the ones that I read, but I think that the Poetry Project does a good job with The Recluse: https://www.poetryproject.org/publications/the-recluse
I also stan for Nomaterialism:https://www.nomaterialism.com/
Black Sun Lit has a pretty robust online presence:http://blacksunlit.com/
Tagvverk does more concrete poetry and experimental work:https://tagvverk.info/
baest is one for the queershttps://www.baestjournal.com/
And I could keep going. But I think you'd do well to start at The Recluse. I also recommend everyone sign up for this, it's wide-ranging: https://poets.org/poem-a-day
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
If you haven't, also, flopson...you should definitely look up Tongo Eisen-Martin. I can't remember if we've discussed him elsewhere. He's amazing.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
Back to New Yorker programming...
I will say that now that I can spend time at my parents' house again, I will probably be purloining back issues that interest me, much as I did before the pandemic.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
thx!
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
i live in vancouver
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
Oh, then the Capilano Review should be quite easy for you to get a hold of. Please give a kiss to that city, I love it and have so many friends there.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
:)
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
I also have Bunk on my shelf but have not read it yet.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
Yep, Bunk is the book that sits unread like a pile of old New Yorkers, to keep the thread on-topic, but those who have read it do rekindle the likelihood of my picking it up at some point....
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
This was wild and weird:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/on-the-trail-of-a-mysterious-pseudonymous-author
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 July 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
that was cool
― k3vin k., Saturday, 17 July 2021 02:40 (two years ago) link
i did enjoy that although i wasn't sold on the books being good from what they could relay
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 17 July 2021 02:49 (two years ago) link
this new ben taub story is riveting and confirms everything you might suspect about the austrian (inept, illiberal) and israeli (effective, amoral) intelligence apparatuses
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/20/how-a-syrian-war-criminal-and-double-agent-disappeared-in-europe
― k3vin k., Monday, 13 September 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
This is relevant to my interests, ty
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 13 September 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/20/alison-roman-just-cant-help-herself
lol
As the writer Andrea Nguyen has observed, the brash, prescriptive “bro tone” that has served many a male food-world personality so well is increasingly becoming gender-neutral. Roman has been one of its premier female purveyors, rarely shying away from—and occasionally picking—a fight. “Rice has always seemed like filler to me,” she wrote in 2016’s “Dining In,” dismissing the world’s second most important cereal crop as though she were swiping left.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 13 December 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
Disrespect our cereal crops, will ya? Why I oughta
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 13 December 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
Permafrost thaw has brought to the surface all sorts of mysteries from millennia past. In 2015, scientists from a Russian biology institute in Pushchino, a Soviet-era research cluster outside Moscow, extracted a sample of yedoma from a borehole in Yakutia. Back at their lab, they placed the piece of frozen sediment in a sterilized culture box. A month later, a microscopic, wormlike invertebrate known as a bdelloid rotifer was crawling around inside. Radiocarbon dating revealed the rotifer to be twenty-four thousand years old. In August, I drove out to Pushchino, where I was met by Stas Malavin, a researcher at the laboratory. “It’s one thing for a simple bacterium to come back to life after being buried in the permafrost,” he said. “But this creature has intestines, a brain, nervous cells, reproductive organs. We’re clearly dealing with a higher order.”
The rotifer had survived the intervening years in a state of “cryptobiosis,” Malavin explained, “a kind of hidden life, where metabolism effectively slows down to zero.” The animal emerged from this geological “time machine,” as he put it, not just alive but able to reproduce. A rotifer lives for only a few weeks, but replicates itself multiple times through parthenogenesis, a type of asexual reproduction. Malavin removed from the lab fridge a direct descendant of the rotifer that had crawled out of the permafrost and placed it under a microscope. An oval-shaped plankton squirmed around; I imagined this blob, two-tenths of a millimetre in size, as a nervous explorer who awoke to find itself in a strange and unexpected future.
― johnny crunch, Monday, 17 January 2022 02:00 (two years ago) link
yeah I am looking forward to that one
― auld gang syne (k3vin k.), Monday, 17 January 2022 02:03 (two years ago) link
the entire issue w that article was v good
― johnny crunch, Monday, 17 January 2022 02:33 (two years ago) link
stuff of nightmares tho right?
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link