New Yorker magazine alert thread

personally embarrassing david remnick is a public service

more to the topic of this thread i really enjoyed the article on mega yacht culture in the latest issue

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-haves-and-the-have-yachts

I’m still working my way through it. Man, it’s … something.

Yeah, that yacht story is fascinating.

i started reading it but i hate all these people, find them almost physically revolting

yes. but there's a way in which he gets at how pathetic and insecure they all are even as they scale up to unimaginable heights of wealth

No matter how much money you have, you cannot escape death.

this just gets better and better

So I was waiting for another hit piece to drop before responding to the @Gawker piece, but feel like it’s important to respond to this now. But first, does the @NewYorker still have a fact-checking dept?? Does @Gawker? So buckle up, kids—this will be a long one…

— Erin Overbey (@erinoverbey) August 5, 2022

lol

overbey evidently is so far handling this very well on twitter and gawker -- assuming they're not just fibbing -- may well have been stiffed by new yorker management (and also the union?)

BUT:
"Overbey did not respond to a lengthy list of questions we sent her on July 26 and multiple subsequent requests for comment. But after we reached out, she tweeted about the request. “To that @Gawker reporter who contacted me, I'll simply say, Go ahead & publish,” she wrote. “Publish it ALL. I'll just be over here sipping…”"

^^^this is where the fact-checking process kicks in and she deliberately opted not to supply any information to challenge the story they were getting from the other side? i mean this is her choice and her right obviously -- she's a journalist herself, she wants to control her won story -- but it does tend to support the claim that this is all a solo operation on her part (as does her suggestion that anyone they've anonymously quoted from the new yorker must be a management stooge…)

"of course you won't find anyone else to support my version of events! they're all in league against me!"

anyway as i say she's running the event well so let's see what round two scares up

personally embarrassing david remnick is a public service

― mark s, Monday, 25 July 2022 17:45 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^^this is still the key takeaway

I find it hard to believe there is a real person named Tarpley Hitt.

‘tarpley hitt’ tho

― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 December 2021 07:17 (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

its tarpleys world we just live in it

From that most recent Overbey thread, I learned that she's Jack Hitt's daughter.

I still laugh at Whiney's first post img.

From that most recent Overbey thread, I learned that she's Jack Hitt's daughter.

Of course she is.

At the same time, Overbey insinuates that Tarpley Hitt has a conflict of interest because her father is a "New Yorker contributor" ... even though, as best as I can tell, this amounts to one magazine feature in 2012 and eight online pieces between 2012 and 2016. During that time, he also contributed to the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Saveur, etc. etc. Now people are in Tarpley's mentions talking about her "rich New Yorker columnist father."

I started off feeling somewhat sympathetic to Overbey, whom I've followed on Twitter for years (mostly just because "New Yorker archive editor" sounded like a cool job). But the social-media dynamics of it all are leaving a bad taste in my mouth, regardless of whether she is actually "whistleposturing" or not.

Pretty much every media story is just “no winners here” these days

30 rapidfire tweets have never made anyone more sympathetic but if that's the platform you have to battle the New Yorker, I guess you've got to run with it. No one would notice if she tweeted a link to a blog laying out the case.

has anyone done the “when that tarpley hitt” joke yet

No one would notice if she tweeted a link to a blog laying out the case.

hey dudes on this thread just a quick note

if a woman is saying she felt unsafe and shitty at work and has receipts it's kind of shitty to criticize her methods. and her points about lack of diversity at that magazine still stands, no matter how much folks support her

don't remember her saying she was unsafe

though I figure this is a loose useage

So the @NewYorker has absolutely no problem with a male reporter who literally took rides on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane, yet somehow the female employee who blew the whistle on diversity is the big problem. I honestly don’t think the magazine realizes how much it’s telling on itself

— Erin Overbey (@erinoverbey) August 10, 2022

she's talking about Gladwell, right?

“I was invited to the TED conference in maybe 2000 (I can’t remember), and they promised to buy me a plane ticket to California,” Gladwell says now. “Then at the last minute they said, ‘We found you a ride on a private plane instead.’ As I recall, there were maybe two dozen TED conference goers onboard. I don’t remember much else, except being slightly baffled as to who this Epstein guy was and why we were all on his plane.”

Dear god will this Louise Brooks piece never fucking end????

Did it?

I abandoned it and assume it continues to go on and on and on with detailed descriptions of every scene of every movie that she ever did.

The Louise Brooks piece doesn't get good until 3/4 of the way in, when the writer actually shows up at the apartment she hasn't left for years and starts talking with her. Then it's delightful. But it was 1979, so I assume it was novel to read a recap of someone's entire movie career.

Generally with archival issues, I read the restaurant review and do the crossword puzzle and then enjoy the week off from the New Yorker.

Cancel your subscription and enjoy that feeling 52 weeks per year!

I liked the Dylan piece in there, at least for the recording studio scene and period slang.

jordan's point is good but also this (insanely long pieces) was notoriously an NYer characteristic under late-days shawn

when i started reading there'd be an unending extract every x months from whichever volume of ved mehta's autobiography* was then in process, i think i read three before i noped out

when shawn was given the boot, robert gottlieb and most of all tina brown manhandled the copy back to more normal length

*continents of exile, 12 volumes in all lol

pity in some ways, i remember greatly enjoying a shawn-era factual two-parter on DYNAMITE, which must have been like 12000 words in toto (ie not long enough)

really liked this week’s issue

the gangster brewery article is batshit, I kind of can’t believe it’s not dominating twitter (probably for the better)

loved keith gessen’s review of fathers and sons (technically the new translation, though he spends about 3 sentences on that in particular)

new ben lerner short story which is a banger

I read the entirety of Janet Malcolm's Plath bio article in summer '93. Amazing what mags got away with in the advertising era.

Keith gessen’s book out this summer is great btw

the guy at the center of the gang brewery story is fucking nuts jeez

everything about that story is insane!

it's one of the worst ideas i've ever heard and the guy went off and actually did it irl

*ears perk up*

it's one of the worst ideas i've ever heard and the guy went off and actually did it irl

― call all destroyer, Thursday, September 8, 2022 3:00 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

there’s something poetic and beautifully american about gangsters and rich idiots getting into business together and despite multiple people getting merked in very predictable ways, getting the venture capital to keep on pouring in

it's one of the worst ideas i've ever heard and the guy went off and actually did it irl

― call all destroyer, Thursday, September 8, 2022 3:00 PM (forty-one minutes ago)

the way he used the term "street cred" and such leads me to believe he's not just a canny businessman who has a good idea of how to get himself positive press (until this story anyway) but also someone who just gets off on the idea of hanging around dangerous people

yup, 100%.

"Two former employees told me that, for a long time, the company was essentially home-brewing, trying to get the recipe right. I asked Taylor recently how much he knows about brewing. 'I just know enough to be dangerous,' he said." 🙄

Also, quelle surprise:
https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2022/09/07/gang-member-run-tru-colors-brewing-to-close-wilmington-nc/8014356001/

this feels like a very of the moment and meaningful piece
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/12/the-victim-who-became-the-accused

Ooh. Rachel Aviv byline is v promising.

She has a new book imminent.