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more about #thenewyorker more comments → A Message To Rudy: It's called BWC technology: Because We Can. It's the same technology used to make those Charles Schwab commercials that are computer rotoscopes of peo... more » Deric: more » Banjo-Sea Kitten: My god. No. I blame Woody Allen having children. more » LoveHandles: Honestly, these numbers seem rather pedestrian, given the content. #thenewyorker more » girlhowdy: Never mind the New Yorker masthead; do you think Ivanka Trump's publisher had to pay full price for the banner ad for her book on the bottom of the ar... more » Monte Wooley: Bloated staff, unreadable magazine. No wonder Si loves it. So Proustian. A remembrance of things past. Tiny mummies live! #thenewyorker more » FormerEnglishMajor: What is the ratio of writers to editors at other magazines? Is 2:1 a lot or the industry norm? (unless critics are considered writers as well, in whic... more » FrozenHaddock: Does the fact that it's a weekly have anything to do with it? Outputting a magazine with a fairly impressive depth of content every seven days seems ... more » naugahydeinplainsight: Six with "makeup" in their titles but seven with "web," plus a blogs editor and a multimedia producer. Go, go Eustace! #thenewyorker more » quotidian: I am guessing most of the staff writers are not on salary. Title is probably an honorific for most of them-- (with maybe a retainer). #thenewyorker more » Baroness: They need a lot of makeup- have you seen those ghastly pale lit-nillas? #thenewyorker more » manchops: wow, the weird part is I know someone who freelances there three days a week as a researcher and she's not even on that masthead! I do worry about th... more » futuremrsrickankiel: Oh, nuts. Am I too late to call this a PIE OF SALVATION? Because it is. #jonathansafranfoer more » carbonadam: Any vegetarian who thinks animal life is more sacred than plant life is sorely mistaken. All life is sacred and none from the lowly ameba, to humans, ... more » Lux Alptraum: I hated Foer's NY Times piece (based on his book), and I, for the record, have been a vegetarian for almost two decades (which, god, makes me feel rea... more » -
#thefuture
New Yorker Cartoons Now on XBox, For Some Reason
A tipster points out that fancy Xbox Live "Gold" subscribers are offered an amazing selection of animated New Yorker cartoons. Animated! What better target audience that Xbox Live addicts? Click to watch this completely inexplicable media crossover in action. -
#magazines
The New Yorker, by the Numbers
For the second time this decade, the New York Observer's cobbled together the TOP SECRET masthead of The New Yorker. It sure has a lot of people working for it! A numerical summary, below. More » -
#lawsuits
New Guinea Tribesmen Would Like to Bankrupt The New Yorker
As if Conde Nast didn't have enough to worry about: the New Guinea tribesmen suing the New Yorker for defamation now want a cool $45 million. Beware, reporters: Even your cab driver is lawyered up these days. More » -
#mediacrack
Flacks Love This Businessweek Deal
In your overstuffed Wednesday media column: a PR man cheers Bloomberg's latest purchase, Calvin Trillin says crotchety things, the New Yorker hires(!) somebody, Brides loses advertisers, and the Washington Post poaches from HuffPo, for a change. More » -
#hollywood
We Continue to Wait for the Story that Explains Nikki Finke
At least we've got a new Nikki Finke picture to look at. We were sick of that black-and-white portrait—the only photo of the Hollywood gossip available online—so we're glad the New Yorker added an illustration to the mix.
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#awesomethings
Nikki Finke Hits The New Yorker: "I Bitchslapped David Remnick"
BOOM! goes the dynamite, or or in this case, Nikki Finke's New Yorker "profile" that dropped today. It's an insubstantial but fairly fun read with a few juicy anecdotes. Nikki's already reacted. Family friendly journalism, right here. Bring the kids:
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#mediacrack
The New Yorker's Dark Anti-Brazil Conspiracy Uncovered
In your conspiratorial Thursday media column: The New Yorker hates Brazil, Laurel Touby bids you farewell, Pinch Sulzberger ups his humor quotient, and sexism exists. More » -
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#thingstodo
Your Guide to the New Yorker Festival
The New Yorker Festival is coming up! It's Lollapalooza for the urban intelligentsia. Tickets go on sale today at noon, and if you don't buy them immediately then forget seeing the good stuff. A guide to the good stuff, below. More » -
#wtf
New Yorker Gets Great Hip Hop Story Somehow
Wowza, Ta-Nehisi Coates got an entire profile of MF Doom in the New Yorker this week, something so unlikely it sounds like a dare. The best hip hop journalist profiles today's illest MC in America's best magazine. Mmmm, food. -
#condenast
The New Yorker Will Be Sold for Scrap Before Anna Wintour Stays in a Cheap Hotel
What, exactly, is McKinsey's strategy for cutting costs at Conde Nast? Having parsed today's worthless anecdotal evidence, we now know: Let Vogue do whatever she likes, and make the poor meek New Yorker staffers suffer to make up for it.
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#literature
Meet the Scorpions, Boston's 'All Hard-Guy' Book Club
Your book club is so gay! That's what the Scorpions, a group of hard 20 and 30-something guys who meet for PBRs in Boston shitholes to talk about books, say. Their motto? "We read. We bleed. And we kick ass." More » -
#hoaxes
Thomas Pynchon is No Indie Rock Groupie
In 1996 the New Yorker ran a "Talk of the Town" piece about the notoriously reclusive Thomas Pynchon becoming a huge fan of an indie rock band called Lotion, a story the magazine now acknowledges was all a hilarious hoax. More » -
#queenofpop
The Gays Do Not Want Michael Jackson, Thank You Very Much
The intellectualization of Michael Jackson as icon starts in earnest today with The New Yorker theater critic Hilton Als' queer theory read on his career in The New York Review of Books. The only problem is, Jackson wasn't gay. More » -
#literature
Dying Mag Pays Fortune For Dead Author's Unfinished Book
Famed literary journal and titty mag Playboy acquired the exclusive serial rights to the unfinished final novella of author Vladimir Nabokov. They won the rights with flowers! And also lots of money. And also The New Yorker turned it down. More » -
#careeradvice
Malcolm Gladwell Made Me Cry Today
Malcolm Gladwell's next big New Yorker piece is on news reporting. Notes the Outliers author: "You can't start blogging at 23 and call yourself a journalist." Nah, you do that when you're 40 and creepy. [E & P Pub] -
#stokingtheflames
Susan Orlean, Defender of the New Yorker Universe, In Her Own Words
If you've seen the movie Adaptation you know Susan Orlean will mimic dial-tonesdoes not play around. So I asked the New Yorker staff writer if she had more thoughts not-fit-for-tweeting. She did! More » -
#theassimilator
In the Case of Dan Baum, Everyman, vs. the New Yorker: How Do You Plead?
Last week Dan Baum ate from the tree-of-temptation and tweeted blaspheme about the holiest of literary-institutions, The New Yorker. This weekend: Slate's Troy Patterson, Eric Easter of EbonyJet, and Emily of Emdashes pass judgment: More » -
#wtan
WTAN Presents: Susan Orlean, Stupid Tattoo Tricks, and Naked French Women Walking Through Paris
You know that New Yorker twit-storm Dan Baum is still blogging about? Well, Susan Orlean's here to comment on all of that, with more than 140 characters! Can I get an invisible hi-five on that! More » -
#history
The New Yorker's Great Wall of Silence
Dan Baum chronicled the loss of his New Yorker gig on Twitter. His story—and the New Yorker's own reaction—is a great reminder that America's best magazine still runs itself like a secret society. More »
