New Yorker magazine alert thread

theres also a good letter ref'ing the civil forfeiture article abt knowledge of the law against structuring cash bank deposits to avoid the $10k notification requirment & a client of his who lost $100K from proceeds she had kept in her basement for years and then put in various accts from her job @ subway??

Didn't Nicholson Baker use the phrase in his article on LCD screens?

hm u know it was prob in the paul haggis scientology article my bad

It's all over the place. They're gonna change it to "Electro-ejaculation of the Town" in the new year.

So: Claire Danes. Should I read this?

not sure she posts here haha

ask jim franco

Claire Danes thing was OK. Was expecting a mention of the whole Billy Crudup/Mary Louise Parker saga.

Stuff about her training as a dancer and how this impacts her acting was p interesting.

I'm not a fan in particular but thought it was pretty interesting.

want to start a thread about the article this week about the increase in the number of people who believe they are part of a truman show-esque reality tv show but it's a subscriber-only article

how long til they are available for cheapskates to read, usually?

that sounds cool

i think most stuff just stays subscriber-only forever, via the online archives

it's pretty interesting but one of those articles i wish was longer. the broader context is about how the time and area where psychotics live affects how their psychosis manifests itself.

I liked that article fine, but it felt overly familiar. Has the NYer been doing a lot of schizophrenia stuff or is that just me? They have definitely been hitting the "medical" theme pretty hard in the past couple of years.

yea i agree that article felt kinda bs/pedestrian idk

fuck you guys

j/k lol

how long til they are available for cheapskates to read, usually?

that sounds cool

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, September 9, 2013 5:31 PM (2 hours ago)

dude the NYer is like the biggest bargain in the world, what is it like less than 2 bucks an issue for some pretty consistently top-shelf writing

just launched today on zinio too, if ur 'over' paper (been on newsstand for a while i believe).

I just suspended my account till further notice. :-\ the back issues were becoming a physical hazard, or they still are because I am lazy.

if i haven't finished them after 2 months, i recycle them

my partner is still waiting for a "better deal" to renew. i'm like "better deal? it's almost free. just renew already."

or you could share...?

i haven't read the truman show article yet but it has been frustrating how abrupt the recent medical coverage has been. the one on the balkan kidney disease was kind of infuriating with how "talk of the town" it was, just blithe & condescending.

condescending?

they've been sending me 'renew now for only us$60!!!!1' emails, but i pay fifty bucks through itunes discounts, so

"condescending" might be putting it too strongly, it's an instance of the house style (and some pretty obvious editing iirc) not being equal to a condition that is some kind of deep legacy of underdevelopment, poverty & war.

I liked the Balkan kidney disease piece, but I'm generally a fan of Elif Batuman's work so maybe I'm biased. I didn't find it at all condescending. The personal connection through her father made it more emotionally resonant I thought. It was kind of inspiring to read about these researchers who keep plugging away for decades on some obscure disease, but also kind of melancholy in its acknowledgement of the lack of answers.

nyu prez sounds like a freak

hes super freaky

The hugging!

Truman Show article is interesting enough but it's obviously just there to convince me I'm not in a reality simulation so is a bit on the nose. Nice try though and the rest of the issue is impressively realistic.

otm

lol

is nobody mentioning the line in that piece where the guy's parents are like you have to PROMISE to go to rehab THE SECOND you get back from the three-day jam-band festival

haha yes

until then have a great time honey

lol s1ocki

lol yes and then just briefly mention dad is a music promoter at the same festival

bustle.com piece is hilarious

would read the shit outta this site if it was just verbatim transcriptions of the guy's blue-sky-thinking business platitudes

With his puffy face and untrimmed hair, he resembles a giant six-year-old.

i liked how repeatedly everyone talked about how bleacher report is the worst site

Nixon-Kissinger going ham on India reminds me what a gift to humanity those tapes are.

women in their twenties care abt things? news to me

Breaking bad dude piece is ok

'let's go drive by your childhood house' is so trite tho

Haha yeah

the cranston piece is good but it felt like kinda a missed opportunity to me, like there is this fascinating Generic Dad quality to him that they didn't quite get to the bottom of, he has a motto, he makes those weird score-charts, he is all charmingly doofy. I remember hearing him on Marc Maron, answering questions about Seinfeld w like "JERRY SEINFELD. FUNNY GUY." like I just wish it had exclusively zeroed in on this avuncular quirk & its perfect cohesion w Walter White but maybe that's just me

hey also I like the staff photographer guy now

it was odd to read the cranston piece one week after the claire danes piece. they were kind of the same article. great actors in great shows! took a long time to get where they are! crazy parents! commonly praised as the nicest person in show business! but i guess those are all standard celeb profile tropes.

this is the worst cover I can remember I think