New Yorker magazine alert thread

what r u even basing this on max

the only time i ever heard about nyer finances was wrt its editors - iirc the Remnick Era is cited w/turning it around & making it profitable? but then that might be wrt not spending money on a big wedding cake for tina brown to pop out of every time she entered a room.

I love the weird outdated upper crust ads in the NYer - handmade safari hats etc.

― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:45 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha otm, also upstate schools for sensitive children
this thread has convinced me to nobly re-up at full cost when i get around to it, anyway

argh what was the harpers personal section called, something like "discerning singles"?

distracting shingles

what r u even basing this on max

― lag∞n, Monday, July 30, 2012 10:49 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"word on the street"?

i already took word on the street, maybe try talk of the town

As an Oberlin alum, I like seeing the ads for Kendall at Oberlin, the retirement community in Oberlin. For old people who like access to world class music performances, good film series, obnoxious college students, cornfields and economically depressed Ohio.

oh yeah, with the sheep right

i dont think so! pretty sure it turns a profit

― max, Monday, July 30, 2012 10:37 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well no one but conde nast knows but the word on the street is its a prestige loss leader

― lag∞n, Monday, July 30, 2012 10:41 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is also what I have heard from my friend 'the street', fwiw.

googling turns up a couple references to it turning profits in the late 90s/early 2000s. if its losing money its not losing money on the order of harpers, newsweek, etc.

let's write fanfic about it

I love the weird outdated upper crust ads in the NYer - handmade safari hats etc.

― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, July 30, 2012 10:45 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i thought it would be a good idea to write a piece about the longterm advertisers in the nyer, like the guy who's still selling french berets 40 years later

So many adds for psychiatric treatment!

ads, even

i want to live in the basketweaving/potterymaking/afghanknitting communities for seniors that they push

psyched for this

https://twitter.com/DavidGrann/status/229746942727557120

i love con people

have you ever read david maurer's the big con?

me too
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its one of the most entertaining and fascinating books ever imo - maurer was a linguist in the 30s who wanted to write a book about underworld slang, but then was so captivated by the con men he met in his research he just devoted a whole book to them

i should check that out, someone was just telling me abt another con book last night which tells the true story of a mark who later after much effort turned the tables and ran a con on his conners

whoa what's that

DEF read the maurer, its a nonstop delight

lol i dont remember what it was called, ill check out the big con tho

its called 'the mark inside' apparently

whoa my name is mark

or is it

let me give u this envelope with $50 in it

ok but I'm going to need you to give me a $25 start-up fee as well

whoa can i get in on this

recommend me some con movies

past issue was partic lame; I'm slogging through the bruce story which ain't half bad but i hardly feel motivated to tackle an episodic zadie smith short story and, i'm sorry, is this a shouts and murmurs told from the perspective of an unopened condom in rubber patois?

I also liked the condom story.

farewell, jonah lehrer. you've always been a bit slipshod in your attempt to out-gladwell gladwell but i didn't expect this.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/jonah-lehrer-resigns-from-new-yorker-after-making-up-dylan-quotes-for-his-book/

Such a waste. For one thing, there are existing quotes that would have done the job almost as well. For another, don't fuck with Dylanologists - they know everything. If you're going to lose one of the best jobs in journalism for making shit up go the full Blair/Glass. Use your - heh - imagination.

psyched for this

https://twitter.com/DavidGrann/status/229746942727557120

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, July 30, 2012 11:42 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so i read this story at lunch ... it's interesting but not completely satisfying? i would like to talk about it with you guys once you have a chance to read it.

btw this is an actual final line from one of the articles this week:

The call reverberated through the neighborhood: "Turd!"

screen name waiting to happen

sigh

"so i read this story at lunch ... it's interesting but not completely satisfying? i would like to talk about it with you guys once you have a chance to read it."

Is this the article about the cheating marathon dude?

yes

It seems kind of a low stakes bit of cheating to me. Looking at pics of the dude and imagining him running a 17 minute 5k is pretty funny though.

screen name waiting to happen

― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Monday, July 30, 2012 4:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^posts very much in character waiting to happen

^response very much in character to posts very much in character to screen name waiting to happen

wait let's pause this i have another good joke to make

whoa my name is mark

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, July 30, 2012 12:58 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

con vivant

ok

anyone read the Paul Ryan article yet?

lol kevs

(can i call u kevs?)

yes you may

anyone read the fitzgerald short story??