New Yorker magazine alert thread

the other David grann piece about the American spy for Cuba is the first thing that comes to mind

― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, March 24, 2013 7:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

second this

squid piece is old btw

btw that squid guy REALLY loves neil diamond huh

other awesome pieces that come to mind

- libertarian billionaire by george packer
- all louis menand, partic his pieces on dwight macdonald and ts eliot
- "dr don" pharmacist in rural colorado or whatever
- bitcoins
- james suroweicki's recent column on the soda tax
- atul gawande on "hot spotting" (this may not be within a year but as a health care person you should read it)
- piece on dakotah eliason and the juvenile justice system
- tyler clementi :(
- caro on LBJ
- raw milk crazies
- genetically modified mosquitos
- violinist
- confidential informants
- sark
- soldier who tries to track down the family he massacred in iraq
- rachel aviv on sex offenders

how did you remember all that

did you just look itt

dope list kev, +1ing Dr Don & adding
whoever wrote about Neanderthals
all Batuman, particularly Gobekli Tepe & the bird sanctuary
& the Derek Parfit profe

anyway i read most of those and they were good, except caro, that guy cant be serious

did you just look itt

― lag∞n, Sunday, March 24, 2013 8:32 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha m/l

OK I have read some of those but mostly not, gonna hijack my in-law's printer and PRINT those I have not yet read, then cancel dumb online archive subscription and stick to Kindle edition. Thank you v much for recs! Everyone please post more before I cut the archive cord!

FWIW so so many of these were dog-eared in my print editions that were piled liberally around the house; when I had to move out of said house, I tossed them secure in the belief that I could read them on my laptop to my heart's content. Little did I know how sucky that reading experience would be.

that psychonetics one is nuts and also available online free: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/24/121224fa_fact_foer

also the hezbollah reacting to syria one i thought was really nicely written: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/02/25/130225fa_fact_filkins (not freely available)

Love Batuman, but I'd go for the women's theater over the bird sanctuary. Neolithic article is money all the way through, though.

I'd add a couple energy/environment articles, first the one on the artificial leaf (Magritte cover), and then the one about reforesting desert areas.

Cosign on rural pharmacist, that shit was all-time.

the aussie mining lady truly seems horrible, but it is mitigated by how incredibly miserable she seems. like kane x100000

(carol kane)

ya she seems like theres something really wrong w her

she's got a sort of childlike mind in some respects (e.g. self-awareness), so not dissimilar to your michael jackson, say

Which issue is this?

style issue (unbelievably)

Still haven't gotten out. T︵T

It, not out.

quincie you know you can use something like readability to get long web articles onto your kindle

the problemo is that the online archive isn't in standard Web format, it is in a stupid format that I can't flow into another format.

N/A, is it really the case that with the Kindle edition, the old issue is DELETED when the week's new edition is delivered? Like, I don't have access to last week's issue anymore? WTfuckingF?

no it should be in your archives somewhere

that is not the case, back issues stay til you delete them (and even then you can redownload them if you wanted).

Oh wait I see it now, under "Periodicals: Back Issues". God I am dumb.

I promise not to pollute this thread with my digital dumbness anymore. So, what is everyone looking forward to this week?

ah right, you want to print stuff in the archive. i misunderstood. i meant you can kindlify the regular free articles posted on the web.

u dont get the web archives included w the kindle subscription cause u do w ipad

I don't think so?

oh OK I do get the web archives with the kindle subscription (this is a relatively recent development, apparently). But I would like to figure out how to get more than the past 3 issues of the kindle version, so I can read those and not the dumb web archive format.

btw i mentioned the horace mannl sex abuse from this week's article over the weekend, it is v good. you kind of think there are a bunch of lolita parallels but then they fall apart once you think harder

yeah theyre not gonna give you back issues kindle formated lest you pay for them, at least thats the deal w the ipad vers

iPad app is so great

i could quibble but it is p great

hm guess i never realized that the ipad-formatted archives only go back as far as oct 2010, which makes sense i guess

yeah they start when they started ipaddin'

horace mann abuse piece in today's issue was a really good read... like p much anything concerning 20th century NYC private school it made me think of catcher in the a lot

yes that was good. tim minchin piece was garbage.

i just read that gina rinehart piece. good stuff

normally I am OK with Sedaris, but this week's piece was a must-miss.

did the tim minchin piece describe him as garbage?

The history of the fork is so awful, so obviously insular and self-obsessed that I keep checking the byline to see if it's an Adam Gopnik piece.

Dapper Dan piece was interesting, informative - a corner of fashion I had no idea about before

i had never thought abt those outfits not being real gucci or whatever, tho obvs if i had it wouldve been obvious, cool piece, a bit of a hagiography, but cool none the less

Yeah, Kramer's personal histories about cooking in her Tuscan farmhouse or whatever usually bug me, so I skipped to where she more directly discussed the book, which was more rewarding.

i love the look and feel of the nyer ipad app but i hate how every issue is like 180mb and you can't download them in the bg

it would also be cool if you had the option to scroll through the longer articles instead of being locked in to the static page layout.

also would be cool if you could change the type size (i discovered that larger print makes reading at the gym way easier after accidentally buying the large-print edition of lost city of z)

yeah exactly... you can't even select/quote text, let alone change text size, cuz i think they're just flat images

it's not good.