New Yorker magazine alert thread

lol

did anyone read the CIA thing this week

no but you have my attention

i read it

i usu skip steve coll ish tbh

i have not read it but am planning to

grady did you read it?

not yet

Did not know Iron Lady piece was gonna be a William finnegan joint. I fuckin love him.

s f-j is p offtm generally in this jt piece, but 'friends w/ benefits' is not at all 'terrible' cmon bro

yeah friends w/ benefits was way worse than merely terrible

never felt more alone than when balls deserted me

movie requires you not only have a tolerance of flash mobs but find them absolutely wonderful. it was better than no strings attached, at least the leads were fun.

Requiring Kunis and JT to "make love" to serious music to signify their commitment to Something Lasting And True was gross imo.

xp def agree flash mob is worse than terrible but thats just like the last ~10 min iirc? it's a p funny movie til then

plus c'mon who doesn't remember semisonic did 'closing time'

What's wrong with Steve Coll?

he has a bit of a coll

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The story about the Horace Mann pedo was crazy.

i know!

as for Kriakou, I kept thinking of Kevin Bacon in JFK mode playing ("Oh bring ON those muthafuckas with dere college degrees. I got nuthin to HIDE").

The story about the Horace Mann pedo was crazy.

Literally crazy -- the main guy (Berman) sounds totally deranged.

yeah it was pretty nuts, i like when he ranked himself 27th all time

i read half of the cia thing and found it kinda boring, update

is y i skip those mostly

the part in the horace mann article where the author gets this response from one of berman's protegé's that is written in the exact same excruciatingly florid style as his master was amazing

i love cult shit

^^^YES

he reminded me of people i knew when i was a teenager, without the abuse, but that same way of drawing hapless teenagers in and making them feel elite and super-special and then leaving them totally bereft a little while later.

It was an incident out of an Auchincloss novel.

this weird seductive art-infused semi/pseudo-genius personality type that is all a shell around a core of pure selfishness

i liked how the author just printed eveyones assertions that the guy was a genius until then end when one of his ex students was all he was just making top ten lists and didnt really get art at all

"People don't understand," Gene told me. "People think of child abuse as a moment in a shower, like Sandusky. They don't think of it as essentially abducting and brainwashing. This was a cult of art, literature and music, a cult that was revered in some circles. And being in a cult is seen as a sign of weakness."

also his novel lmao

no surprise that Berman was a writer of laughable floridness ("especial"!).

i knowww xp

and he lived with four former students and the girlfriend of one of them wtf!

the fact that it took place at this august institution that was so full of itself but really had no better idea than anyone else wtf is going on w/life was pretty interesting

catholic church imo

yup

the amount of time Berman put into the grooming of these kids is def the creepiest part to me. that he could control them even in adulthood is terrifying

and that 'rebuttal' letter showed how he was still wielding his ego over them even now

big fan of the Gina article

the what

wall-to-wall Gina http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/25/130325fa_fact_finnegan?currentPage=all

oh meant to read that

yeah very interesting

ya it was good

shes a real messed up person

aren't we all ~