New Yorker magazine alert thread

prelude to a threesome

damn, this gonorrhea article is really dispiriting. I hate to think we are approaching a time where condoms for oral sex are gonna need to be the way of the world.

compelling reasons to skip articles

(not really)

(i am sexually responsible)

I totally laughed at the snake/cell phone gag.

http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/65/6561/WLD2100Z/posters/ariel-molvig-o-k-now-do-you-see-a-giant-snake-i-m-inside-the-snake-new-yorker-cartoon.jpg

haha

biden-as-server is good

roz chast is awful

I like the "My wife! My best friend!" cartoon very much, but I think of it as an extremely funny twist (the stick! Poor doggie!) on a fairly common joke among couples where the pets are allowed in the bedroom. I know I've yelled it at napping wife and cat enough times that they both hate me.

i will admit that i laughed at the biden-as-waiter shouts and murmurs.

it was a really good shouts and murmurs!

Haven't read it yet, but imo Biden is always comedy gold.

wait, in the new one? my subscription just lapsed, and i'm waiting for my resubscription issues to arrive. are you telling me that in the ONE issue of the new yorker that i've missed in the last 6-7 years, there's FINALLY a shouts and murmurs??!!?

WTF

sorry, finally a FUNNY shouts and murmurs??!?!

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2012/10/01/121001sh_shouts_barol

It’s the special. It’s the special.

Anybody read the review of the Seward bio? Good fun -- a great character.

i really liked the piece about Campaign, Inc

i did! have been wanting to read a seward bio for some time -- he's my favorite character in vidal's 'lincoln.'

any thoughts on the jk rowling profile?

yeah, mine too; I wish Vidal had written a Johnson-era nouvelle in which Seward stars.

the rowling profile was really needlessly bitchy i thought

or not 'needlessly' -- fine to dislike rowling but came across as personal and mean rather than convincing. i felt like given the material it couldve been a lot more subtle

yes, i agree -- there's something slightly chilly and withheld about rowling's public persona which could have made for a really interesting profile but the writer just seemed interested in making her look as unpleasant as possible.

didn't really get that feel--except for the "she asked for quote approval--we said no" thing. how was the writer making her look "as unpleasant as possible" by trying to find the good things in her new novel?

ha thats exactly it though, the kind of grudging "well if i look hard maybe theres something of value in this" tone

I had forgotten how much I like Tony Earley's prose; I gotta get the new collection based on this Jack and the Mad Dog story in this ish.

Roz Chast's cover for Sept. 24 is the worst NYer cover I've ever seen.

i really liked the piece about Campaign, Inc

― Mordy, Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:16 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, just got around to this. Interesting. I've read about the '40s health care fight before, but it's infuriating all over again to learn more details. And the through-line to Haldeman and Roger Ailes is good. Fox News really is the ultimate extension of the whole Campaigns Inc. approach, but I bet even they would never have believed they could actually own and control an entire news network.

Combs said that he considers Burkle a “mentor,” but also likes that he is “never too big to listen and learn. He’ll roll with me to a Jay-Z concert, he’ll roll with me to an ASAP Rocky concert—he’s into culture.”

disappointed the term sewards folly was never used cause thats still what I call alaska

crazy how the anti health care lobby are still using the same play book from 70 years ago, socialized medicine! what assholes

At the event, Cooperman handed the President two copies of “Inspired: My Life (So Far) in Poems,” a self-published book written by Courtney Cooperman, his fourteen-year-old granddaughter.

loool

Cooperman was surprised that the President didn't send him a thank-you note or that Malia and Sasha Obama, for whom the books were intended as a gift and to whom Courtney wrote a separate letter, didn't write to Courtney. (After Cooperman grumbled to a few friends, including Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, Michelle Obama did write. Booker, who was also a recipient of Courtney's book, promptly wrote her "a very nice note," Cooperman said.)

I hate to do this mr cooperman its really not my style but sir please up against the wall

If you give a gift expecting some sort of roi then it isn't really a gift.

(so far)

this is the 2nd Butthurt Billionaires piece in a few weeks

America

Free, united,
Helping, working, playing,
The best country ever,
U.S.A.

feel like the Romney piece in last week's issue could be inserted into Richard Yates' Collected Stories without anyone noticing

needed some alcohol

Couple recent blog posts that I like:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/10/amanda-palmers-kickstarter-scandal.html

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/10/uncle-pervys-k-pop-playlist.html (mostly for the title)

http://randomcartoon.s3.amazonaws.com/126586.JPG

haha

that joe girardi profile was one of the worst articles i've ever read in the magazine btw. it read like so many of the short baseball books i used to devour in my school library when i was a kid - short, choppy paragraph -> quote -> repeat. i loved those books at the time, but i was seven then. i don't throw this word around lightly but it was probably the most meaningless thing (of moderate length) i've read in a long time.

the author's obsession with batting average, home runs, and RBI didn't really endear the piece to me either

i liked when they found the guy who threw gerardi the ball when he was a kid and he didnt know it was gerardi but he remembered him

i liked the short fiction piece about girls on a wire

I didn't love it, but the Joe Girardi profile was written by Gay Talese!

I mean, he's no hack.

yeah it was pretty bad! even gay talese can write a bad article now and then.

i liked it