December 2012 New Yorker
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5qebo
December 24 & 31
Well, this one's going to be it. Next year, I'm switching to the Atlantic. I can't do justice to both. I may switch back, or find a way to balance, I'm not canceling the New Yorker subscription, but I want to experiment for a year.
After this decision was made, in part because I'm finding too few New Yorker articles of serious interest, suddenly this issue is looking quite good.
Well, this one's going to be it. Next year, I'm switching to the Atlantic. I can't do justice to both. I may switch back, or find a way to balance, I'm not canceling the New Yorker subscription, but I want to experiment for a year.
After this decision was made, in part because I'm finding too few New Yorker articles of serious interest, suddenly this issue is looking quite good.
6sibylline
I don't blame you for dropping the NYer for awhile - it is exhausting to keep up.
Dec 3 Food issue, and guess what? I wasn't interested in reading about sausages or any of it. I did like the story by Antonya Nelson - first decent one in awhile - and read about Saul Steinberg, Deirdre Bair has written a bio. of him. Can't imagine reading it, but that's just me.
Dec 10 Starts out with the person I've never heard of piece - except I had sort of heard of her.... Laurie Simmons. Sometimes I read these pieces and feel kind of inadequate. Shucks.
-did not read about Alabama and football
-could not concentrate on Elizabeth Murdoch, but I think it was a lesser NYer effort and not all me.
-Netherland about homeless LGBTQ kids in NYC was chilling.
-The story didn't grab me.
-Skimmed about Per Petterson. I did 'like' Out Stealing Horses but I haven't yet read anything else. The plot as faded, mostly, but images remain.
Dec 3 Food issue, and guess what? I wasn't interested in reading about sausages or any of it. I did like the story by Antonya Nelson - first decent one in awhile - and read about Saul Steinberg, Deirdre Bair has written a bio. of him. Can't imagine reading it, but that's just me.
Dec 10 Starts out with the person I've never heard of piece - except I had sort of heard of her.... Laurie Simmons. Sometimes I read these pieces and feel kind of inadequate. Shucks.
-did not read about Alabama and football
-could not concentrate on Elizabeth Murdoch, but I think it was a lesser NYer effort and not all me.
-Netherland about homeless LGBTQ kids in NYC was chilling.
-The story didn't grab me.
-Skimmed about Per Petterson. I did 'like' Out Stealing Horses but I haven't yet read anything else. The plot as faded, mostly, but images remain.
7rebeccanyc
I've been dipping in and out; this is a good reminder for me to log some of what I've been reading.
Agree with you about the homeless LGBTQ kids; that article got to me too.
Agree with you about the homeless LGBTQ kids; that article got to me too.
8sibylline
Yes - and it didn't even quite seem as if the main person the writer profiled in the article really had to leave home - she just went without examining other options.
I've been terrible about my NYers - just terrible - but I find when I let them pile up I read them more ruthlessly when I do get to them and, frankly, that is a better use of my time.
I've been terrible about my NYers - just terrible - but I find when I let them pile up I read them more ruthlessly when I do get to them and, frankly, that is a better use of my time.
9sibylline
Done with my last 2012 NYer - this was a solid issue, "World Changers"
- Recall of the Wild - the attempt to recreate a (sort of) paleolithic landscape on reclaimed land in the Netherlands.... well.......weird but interesting.
- LGBT in Uganda, the courage of such people astonishes me.
- Women in their own theatre in Turkey - loved this article and these women.
-Conlang folks, who make up languages - in particular the founder of the language Ithkuil, John Quijada (people you've never heard of). He finds out that it has taken on a life of its own - the idea was a language which requires you to be entirely transparent and logical and rational.
- a trip in a huge freighter across the Northeast Passage, Russia to China .... I love this sort of article, heaven knows why. Safe adventure?
The story was too stupid to read and the poems were fair.
- Recall of the Wild - the attempt to recreate a (sort of) paleolithic landscape on reclaimed land in the Netherlands.... well.......weird but interesting.
- LGBT in Uganda, the courage of such people astonishes me.
- Women in their own theatre in Turkey - loved this article and these women.
-Conlang folks, who make up languages - in particular the founder of the language Ithkuil, John Quijada (people you've never heard of). He finds out that it has taken on a life of its own - the idea was a language which requires you to be entirely transparent and logical and rational.
- a trip in a huge freighter across the Northeast Passage, Russia to China .... I love this sort of article, heaven knows why. Safe adventure?
The story was too stupid to read and the poems were fair.
10rebeccanyc
I enjoyed that article about the reclaimed land in the Netherlands, the language article, and the freighter article too. I wish I were sufficiently organized to write up my thoughts as I read the New Yorkers, but I think I read them in too haphazard a way.
