New Yorker magazine alert thread

For years, Eagleman was a confirmed bachelor and “serial dater,” as one of his friends put it, with a tidy bungalow that he liked to call the Eagle’s Nest.

“I knew I had some intellectual horsepower,” he says. “But I didn’t know where my tires would catch purchase.”

Liked the Chinese tourism article a lot, although I thought there was an irony in that the article exposes all these ways in which the Chinese tourists have their views about Chinese superiority subtly reconfirmed by the tour guide's framing of everything, and yet in the end the writer seems to be pushing a view that, actually, America will remain superior because of CREATIVITY or something.

that's the same spin some of the anti-tiger mom articles take--"Maybe our kids will write some music that your robots will perform"

Finished the Guatemalan murder mystery; holy shit

It doesn't seem completely surprising to me that the Chinese tourists only eat Chinese food, btw -- sounds very typical of group tours aimed at people inexperienced with travel. It's a common complaint about American tourists that they always look for the McDonalds.

I knew Italians who travelled w/ their own pasta and can confirm that my ex-wife's French family weren't the most culinarily adventurous ppl either. Still, Chinese food in Italy, for example, is mostly food that I would avoid.

Man, either these guys or my postal service needs to get their shit together. I've gotten the past three issues all within the last five days.

the tour guide didn't allow them local cuisine because European meals take up to 5 hours.

That was one of his excuses at least

Europeans--they eat so slowly! How can they expect their economy to grow?

Finished the Guatemalan murder mystery; holy shit

― forks (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, April 27, 2011 10:01 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

holy shit is right.

i was late to work after i got hooked on the first four pages.
Was that story international news while it was happening? First i had heard of it.

I feel like I remember hearing about it after the tape came out.

I haven't read the article but how are chinese tour groups different from any other tour groups

Well, one of the highlights of their tour is Karl Marx's birthplace.

I just reached that part of the article and it sounds like they were pretty enthused to be there

I think the message to take from that article is "tour groups are awful"

i feel like they prob have a much higher ratio of bus lecturing to actually being at places than other tour groups? but maybe not.

article about kazakhstan in that ish was good too.

if you're gonna spend half a day on a tour bus what else are you gonna do

been reading through the grann book while on holiday

so good

One of dirty Roger Ebert's other caption contest entries:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/upright-position.jpg

^^^ The only one that I liked.

I had a hard time visualizing what that amusement park ride of near death was supposed to entail?

― iatee, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:39 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think basically you're free-falling BACKWARDS, which, like, no thanks.

Didn't really care for the Eagleman article because it was sort of a bait-and-switch: we're talking about time and perception thereof, no wait it's really ("really") about ("about") Deistic agnosticism and hanging out with Brian Eno.

One I did like was one on poverty as a cause of poor health:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/03/21/110321fa_fact_tough

Definitely read as Gawande-like (if Gawande-lite) to me.

Haven't read the cover story ("Middle East of the West?") but I can tell from the subhead that it's going to be one of those UuuuuuNnnnnnngggggghhhh stories to read.

Hated this article, couldn't finish it. So dull.

but answering the poll, prob wyoming

oh i liked that article! i mean it was depressing i guess but i didnt find it dull.

speaking of depressing articles that FBI informant one from this week was pretty alarming.

but answering the poll, prob wyoming

― iatee, Saturday, April 30, 2011 1:58 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

haha I suck at zing, meant to post this to the island-state thread

I think basically you're free-falling BACKWARDS, which, like, no thanks.

― NoShoutsNoCalls (Leee), Saturday, April 30, 2011 12:48 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

that's what it seemed like, but that doesn't even seem like a ride, it just seems like....falling into a net

Then you are more X-TREME than me, it sounds terrifying.

no no I agree it sounds terrifying, it just doesn't sound like a 'ride' more like a 'net'

the girl who broke her spine in 20 places

damn

The New Yorker will become the first publication from the S.I. Newhouse, Jr., empire to be available via subscription on the popular tablet, and it will happen early next week, said a source familiar with the situation.

The deal means Condé will actually beat rival Hearst in the iPad subscription derby. Hearst said yesterday it was going to start selling subscriptions and single copies of Esquire, O: the Oprah Magazine and Popular Mechanics via the iPad effective with the July issues, available sometime next month.

Condé is expected to make the New Yorker available next week to capitalize on coverage of Osama bin Laden's death.

But by the end of the May, Condé will have the seven other magazines that are currently selling single-copy-only editions on the iPad available via subscriptions, including Wired, Golf Digest, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Self, Allure and GQ.

The deal will involve drastically slashing the single-copy price of the digital issue to $1.99 from the $4.99 price tag for the digital New Yorker and GQ -- the same as the newsstand price -- and from $3.99 for digital Glamour and Wired.

Annual subscriptions for each title will sell for $19.99.

psyched for this if the UK pricing is equiv

woah yeah thatd be great, would save me quite a bit

whats the point of subscribing to the new yorker if you dont get to anticipate it in your mailbox every week and let its pretty covers pile up in a stack somewhere in your house

my gf just throws them away anyway ;_;

i don't have room for those multiplying new yorker stacks, i reluctantly cleared them all out a couple of years ago and cancelled my subscription, but now i'm gladly going to get this digital one.

heathens

! ;)

Last week's issue (2011-05-02) had some fierce articles:
Quantum computing
FBI informant (above mentioned)
Obama foreign policy

really really psyched

one thing I like about the instapaper new yorkers is that you don't really realize how long they are. (which is a good thing!)

btw that stroller cover was the first actually funny one in a long, long time imo

i enjoyed the toobins thing in this week's, though maybe because it's the first law thing i've read for a while. some really distressing case details referred to in passing. the contributors panel at the start of the magazine says he's working on a follow up to the nine, too.

Who are y'all's favorite cartoonists? Haefeli had one in the last couple weeks that had me IRL LOLing.

Pretty good article on reality tv this (last?) week: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/05/09/110509crat_atlarge_sanneh

Btw, I always get my print copy half a week after the online version goes up (i.e. usually around Thursday). Is it because the Pony Express has difficulty reaching me on the West coast?