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How to win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest: “Excepting first names, only nine proper nouns have ever appeared in a winning caption: Batmobile, … gulfstream/2450
Loving piece on the Leica. “Ralph Gibson once went to a meeting of the Leica Historical Society of America and, he claims, listened to a retired Marine … gulfstream/2331
Malcolm Gladwell calls bullshit on crimanal profilers. Are they really any better than psychics? gulfstream/2348
There’s a lot to like about Barack Obama. (Long Larissa MacFarquhar profile.) gulfstream/2368
Photographing medieval tapestries. gulfstream/1717
On Tony Wheeler, the founder of Lonely Planet. gulfstream/1722
Spotting the fake: the (new) New Oxford American Dictionary contains a copycat-busting fake word starting with E. gulfstream/1826
“In-Progress Ideas for New Yorker Cartoons.” gulfstream/1912
This is No Game: “You will never know what it’s like to work on a farm until your hands are raw, just so people can have fresh marijuana. Or … gulfstream/1924
Great, informative, exchange between Valerie Lawson, the author of a book on the creator of Mary Poppins (Pamela Travers) and The New Yorker. … gulfstream/1956
Not ideal: Annie Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain” apparently used to be at this URL, but it’s (effectively) a 404 now. The … gulfstream/1966
James Surowiecki says the newspaper business is still a decent business to be in: whilst there’s no potential for extreme growth (unlike high-tech stocks, … gulfstream/2036
On Muzak, the company who make mix tapes for retailers. Former Muzak executive Alvin Collis: “I walked into a store and understood: this is just like … gulfstream/2052
History of The New Yorker via the recently-released CD anthology. Less than affectionate; attempts to diminish. (e.g. “The New Yorker is the only magazine … gulfstream/2089
Malcolm Gladwell: the success of a company (or country) is determined, to a great extent, by the ratio of workers to dependent non-workers. (GM has 453,000 … gulfstream/2141
Journalists from The New Yorker, thoughtful individuals that they are, attempt to arrange a meeting with the famously reclusive mathematician Grigory Perelman: … gulfstream/2150
Jim Holt’s review of two books critical of string theory. (Good overview of the theory and its weaknesses.) I would’ve thought that two books on string … gulfstream/2163
“A malaise set in within a couple hours of my arriving. I thought getting a job might help. It turns out I have a lot of relatives in Hell, and, using … gulfstream/2181
The New Yorker has redesigned! Some notes: overall, much cleaner, nicer and more modern (though it does feel a lot like New York Magazine) cartoons … gulfstream/2255
NYT fusses over cute New Yorker cover gulfstream/606
ancestralscotland.com hosts a party to celebrate the opening of their website (which encourages Scottish Americans to visit Scotland); the New Yorker attends. … gulfstream/657
Are good fund managers simply lucky fund managers? About stocks, Nassim Taleb is sure of only one thing: that the probability of exceptional events—S11, … gulfstream/805
The New Yorker will apparently make money this year (i.e. 2002), for the first time since 1985. Experts in magazine finance are unconvinced. … gulfstream/995
New Yorker article on the ethics and economics of AIDS research. This is blurbed as being on whether it’s appropriate to subject AIDS research … gulfstream/1117
“The New Yorker Goes to War.” The subtitle—“How a Nice Magazine Talked Itself Into Backing Bush’s Jihad”—neatly captures the … gulfstream/1162
Rather nice rant about Microsoft Word embedded in this Louis Menand piece about writing, citations, and style guides. (Which reminds me: what’s … gulfstream/1295
Great interview with Anthony Lane, movie critic for the New Yorker. “I tend to send my copy in on deadline, which by New Yorker standards … gulfstream/1371
A 1995 review of a collection of Pauline Kael essays. The overall angle seems to be that neither the New Yorker nor Pauline Kael is as good as … gulfstream/1491
Obituary for The New Yorker’s one-time Grammarian, Eleanor Gould. “Miss Gould once found what she believed were four grammatical errors in … gulfstream/1694
Every page of the New Yorker on 8 (!) DVDs. If the search function is good, this might be worth getting. (Seems like the search is not full-text.) … gulfstream/1765
Captivating “interactive essay” (photos plus commentary from the photographer) on London’s inner-city housing estates. Towards the end there … gulfstream/1900
“There’s no substantial business today in charging companies money for the privilege of indexing one’s book …” I do so enjoy Cory Doctorow’s … gulfstream/1976
The little Virgina Quarterly Review scored six nominations in the National Magazine Awards (only the Atlantic got more). “What makes VQR distinctive … gulfstream/2028
Fifty-year-old Bill Buford—former editor of Granta, and former literary editor of The New Yorker—recently spent two years working in various New York … gulfstream/2123
Wow, art conservators take their jobs really seriously: to fixing Steve Wynn’s ripped Picasso they’s (may) attempt to match up individual fibres. … gulfstream/2180
Portfolio site of the designer of Shopsin’s website, the legendary Greenwich village restaurant profiled by Calvin Trillin in the New Yorker. gulfstream/2328
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When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. … quotes/436
When I visited Breyer in Cambridge, there was a tidy pile of children's toys on the living-room floor, the residue of a recent visit by his oldest grandchild. … quotes/433
Over the decades, filibusters have done far more harm than good. In “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” Jimmy Stewart used one to save his Boy Rangers … quotes/405
Moore can't resist amusing his campus and conspiracy-nut following, along with the gleeful sophomore in all of us, but, as the man said, when you aim … quotes/393
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. -- James Thurber, The New Yorker, March 27, 1937 … quotes/387
The disconnect between last Tuesday's monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures … quotes/380
When it ["voice", one of writing's "immaterial properties"] does appear, the subject is often irrelevant. “I do not care for movies very much and I … quotes/339
Moore can't resist amusing his campus and conspiracy-nut following, along with the gleeful sophomore in all of us, but, as the man said, when you aim … quotes/313
"Silent Spring" was concerned principally with the indiscriminate use of DDT for agricultural purposes; in the nineteen-fifties, it was being sprayed … quotes/291
I tend to send my copy in on deadline, which by New Yorker standards is tacky. It has to go through three or four proofs. The fact-checkers proof; the … quotes/282
I never meet my subject matter. It's one of the advantages of living in Britain, a curious arrangement that has worked very well. Sometimes I go over … quotes/281
Even Keanu Reeves, bless him, played his part with a stolidity that made him the only possible hero of the film, so slow in his reactions that he seemed … quotes/260
It was so hot in the club that it was difficult to breathe, but Puffy was still wearing his suit, and not one button was undone. His tie was so tightly … quotes/257
[Harold] Bloom is famous for his memory and his reading speed. He has memorized a large proportion of canonical poetry written in English; once, when … quotes/256
It is worth noting, as well, that in the original coffeehouses nearly everyone smoked, and nicotine also has a distinctive physiological effect. It moderates … quotes/233
Almost as soon as I had sent off a poem to The New Yorker, it would be back in our mailbox in Berlin. The postal service was, of course, incomparably … quotes/232
As a newcomer of a slightly later period, John Bainbridge was as astonished as I by the coldness he encountered at the magazine. A Middle Westerner, … quotes/231
In 1999, a hundred and twenty thousand books were published in the United States--that's about fourteen per hour, which is a lot, especially when there's … quotes/220
Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening you didn't have in the morning. -- Frederic Raphael, co-screenwriter of "Eyes Wide … quotes/149
Abe Hirschfeld, a publicity-seeking septuagenarian parking-lot mogul with a dialect-joke Yiddish accent and a penchant for pointless runs for public office. -- … quotes/143
Tell Guiterman he not only go the statue cleaned up but the word `hell' in the _New York Times_, which is a much greater accomplishment. -- from a memo … quotes/76
Highbrows and lowbrows "get" Roseanne; it's the militant lowbrows who deplore her, even if they've never bothered to watch her show. -- James Wolcott, … quotes/75
Design notes from the _Florida Times-Union_: Books: These are great to fill empty wall units. Designers keep stacks of these on reserve for this purpose. … quotes/22
The forced resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, following her suggestion that masturbation was "part of something that perhaps should be taught," … quotes/8
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"Many of the objects that we think of as archetypally Shaker—the long oval boxes with their lovely triple folds, the clean brooms and chairs—were designed and made largely for outside sale."
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The New Yorker: The Critics: The Current Cinema
The New Yorker keeps its high-culture credentials intact: "Should we mind that forty million readers—or, to use the technical term, 'lemmings'—have followed one another over the cliff of this long and laughable text?"
Joseph Mitchell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
for the last 30 years of his life, joseph mitchell went every day to his office at the new yorker, but published nothing
The New Criterion — Tales from the crypt
history of the new yorker via a review of the cd anthology; attempts to diminish it
village voice > news > The Rejection Connection by Dan Schulman
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good explanation of the string theory deal
OPEN SECRETS - Enron, intelligence, and the perils of too much information.
gladwell: the complexity of enron's dealings were as much responsible for the way in which they went undetected for so long, as much as executives' lying
tad friend on sarah silverman in the new yorker
Independent Online Edition > Media
Sticks and Stones Dept.: Your Name Here: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker
new yorker cartoon: jihad smiley face
“I just think it undermines our organization’s fiery rhetoric when you close your Internet postings with a smiley face.” (newyorker, October 16, 2006)
Annals of Technology: Damn Spam: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Annals of Medicine: The Checklist: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Profiles: The Conciliator: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
