New Yorker magazine alert thread

why dont you destroy the developing world with all your rare earth materials while im cutting down the trees

ipads are essential to my lifestyle i apologize to no one

i hate reading things on screens

yes, i appreciate the ironing

I feel like I have this weird mini-buzz of anxiety reading the NYer app, like I need to rush through the story for some reason. not as chill as reading papes

i read plenty of nyer articles on my phone, v enjoyable experience imo

how can you "read" soemthing on a phone, unless you mean someone is reading it over the phoen to you?

no piles of magazines no need to be in the place where the magazine is delivered to

My wife totally makes me read articles to her.

well i guess we know who wears the pants in this family huh fellas

ouch!

i have to tell it how it is im just that real

the cool thing about the digital subscription is you can pay for a single month's subscription-- you end up paying like $15 more over the course of a year but w/e

i'm that guy who prints out longer articles from the web to read at home

It takes a real man to read a whole 23-page story about human suffering in Syria or whatever out loud.

Actually, what usually happens is that I make it several pages in, then she tells me to stop. So the next day I look for the issue, to finish the story, and she's taken it to finish on the train. And then she forgets it at work. So I never learn how they end!

marriage!

It's all about teamwork: I start reading the articles and she finishes them.

you really read them out loud?

Not all of them. But sometimes, yeah!

only in new york

that is real love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nprQDt7zoEA

Real love is having two print subscriptions so you don't have to share.

I'm finding that I get through issues more speedily on the kindle! Like I actually finish the articles I want to read, instead of dog-earring the pages in print and then letting the pile up until I move house.

Actually, what usually happens is that I make it several pages in, then she tells me to stop. So the next day I look for the issue, to finish the story, and she's taken it to finish on the train. And then she forgets it at work. So I never learn how they end!

― Josh in Chicago

why marriage is doomed

What about the POEMS?

i'm that guy who prints out longer articles from the web to read at home

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, January 16, 2014 6:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hey there

it's always a treat spotting a dude on the train reading something from a website he printed out at the office, people watching bonus points

Sticking it to The Man, one A4 sheet at a time.

neat article: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/01/the-ipod-of-prison-sony-radio.html

great read

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter

putting this here so i remember to read it

http://www.readability.com dude

use pocket instead or something

Or fold the fucking page over like every other person on the planet

Ugh I hate Patricia Marx so much. Her shopping updates were dumb enough, but this week she writes about taking a trip on a freighter, which is potentially interesting, but her writing is so self-centered and cutesy and trite that the piece is totally worthless.

i have never been able to figure out if those shopping articles are satire or not

There's this part of the freighter article where she starts talking about the crew and their lives and for a few paragraphs it's actually a decent article but then she has to go back to describing her shitty cabin and what stuff she packed and what food she ate and it's so awful.

Holy shit that Syngenta article

"Ya fulla my jizz right now"

NA otm about that Patricia Marx piece. So much potential, so much UGH.

Holy shit that Syngenta article

yeah

the last line of the Wm. Burroughs piece is painfully OTM

i read a lot of his stuff in college (the more narrative, straightforward stuff mostly, the cut-up shit was too abstract for me then, can't remember if i actually made it through NL) but feel no need whatsoever to return to it for any reason now

it's a negative review? i love burroughs

i mean of his work not the bio

i guess i can just go read it or look at the last line

let me save you some time.

The line is

"William Burroughs sucks."

lol

yesterday i read the evil oakland county mayor (what a fucking asshole!!!) one and the 20 page obama profile/interview. kind of wish the latter was just a 5 page interview w/o all the flourishes & context but it was pretty good, was actually kind of surprised how aware he was of a lot of criticisms from the left, seemed clear that he had thought about them a lot and responded to them fairly straightforwardly

Loved the Obama piece, partly because it illustrated how the things I admire about him as a person, eg his sense of complexity and nuance, are at odds with the demands of the presidency.

TNC did an excellent dissection of what he disliked about Obama's comments on black achievements.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/the-champion-barack-obama/283458/

nobel prize for science to those hayes -> syngenta e-mails
so beautiful