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'New Yorker' Subject Responds
Forget about the ludicrously inane letters that get printed (or written for) magazines like Interview; this week's New Yorker has one of the most amazing pieces of mail we've ever read. It's equally amusing and touching at the same time. More »
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Wacky Canadian Cannot Get Enough Keri Russell
This month's passel of sub-literate scrawlings to celeb mag Interview was somehow not as brain-blindingly stupid as the usual collection, which may or may not mean that they've hired a smarter intern to compose their correspondence. In any event, here's the worst of the bunch. Were we Felicity, we'd be a tad concerned about this crazy Canuck crossing the border in an attempt to express his admiration. Click to enlarge.
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Surly 'Times' Readers Not Down With The Kids' Music
Among the pissing and moaning in the wake of new Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt's gentle suggestion that the paper might want to cover the saga of the Sulzberger family and its struggle to maintain control of the paper, reader Daniel Waitzman sends a missive that we think encapsulates the mindset of a huge swath of the paper's demographic. An excerpt: More »
"Romans 3:18 best describes The Post: There is no fear of God before their eyes." [NYP]
the poors
Tradesman Contacts 'Time'
The redesigned Time makes it a point each week to highlight one special missive from its readership (or to run an old one under the "Classic Letters" rubric). This week sees a very touching epistle from a member of the proletariat that proves the poors read Time too! We thought nothing would ever beat last week's letter from a matador, but we were wrong? Also, we think we're kind of sincere about this one. Weird, right? Prepare to be moved. More »
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Crazy Vegan Loves Animals, 'Interview'
This month's collection of dispatches from Interview's developmentally-disabled readership contains a bit of advocacy for the cause of veganism. We don't want to cause any controversy amongst the smug "I don't eat animals but I have plenty of time to write angry letters to people who do" set, so we'll simply say that our advice to vegans is the same as Ray Smuckles': "Stand in front of a full-length mirror looking at your body, and then smile really nicely at your body as you say to it, I am so much smarter than you." Actually, if you replace the word "body" with "brain," that advice also applies to Interview readers. Click through for the letter. More »
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We Swear A Lot When We Read 'Interview' Too
Your latest installment of Idiot Interview Letter of the Month comes from the June issue (cover: Felicity with a gob of whip cream spooged on her chesticles). While this letter is somewhat "clever" in that it's a play on the band The Bird and the Bee's lead single, "F*cking Boyfriend," we can't help but feel that this is sort of the way most letters to Interview are originally written. (Either by readers or staff, depending.) Click to enlarge. More »
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Harvard Sex Bloggers Get More Play Than You
"I found The Sex Diaries thoroughly entertaining, but I was disappointed by your omission of a critical Manhattan dweller: the college student," writes Lena Chen to, and in, New York mag. "My friends and I were inspired to take a page from your book and start weeklong diaries of our own. After seven days of awkward dates, booty texts, and drunken hookups, we came to a conclusion: Harvard students are getting more play than New Yorkers." Well, sure, we'll buy that. What's a more powerful aphrodisiac than not having gotten any in high school? But Lena neglects to mention a crucial detail in her letter: she writes Sex and the Ivy, a sex blog full of insights like "Is it any wonder that of the guys I have hooked up with, the overwhelming majority are from this year's graduating class? It's not as if two-year's difference means terribly much but the difference, however minute, is enough." What's the real purpose of the letter, then? Perhaps Lena, though she's only a sophomore, is already spreading the word about where she'll be spreading her postgrad legs. Watch your back, Julia Allison!
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Rupert Murdoch: Hands Off China
We're at the epistolary stage of the Dow Jones story: Rupert Murdoch sent a letter to members of the Bancroft family offering them "a seat on News Corp.'s board and pledging to safeguard the editorial integrity of The Wall Street Journal and other Dow Jones editorial properties." The letter promoted Murdoch as a family man (well, he does have three) with a passion for newspapers. The Bancrofts—about 80 per cent of whom "rejected Mr Murdoch's $60-per-share bid two weeks ago"—seem unimpressed, although there remains a faction that wants to meet with him. The Guardian notes that Murdoch's offer to set up an independent board for the Journal mirrors a promise he made when he purchased the Times of London years ago; that board since "has long been disbanded." More »
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Katie Roiphe Is Big Immature Baby
Katie Roiphe, N.Y.U. teacher and date rape apologist, wrote movingly in last week's New York magazine about how she's coping with divorce way better than anyone thinks she is and how she has already met someone and did she mention she's remodeling a house with "honey-colored, wide-planked floors"? She is! But one woman, Linda Friedner Cowen, wasn't so impressed with how adeptly Katie is picking up the pieces. More »
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Letters To 'Interview': Isn't It Ironic?
Some hefty competition for stupidest letter of the month in the current Interview. Although an epistle about Amy Winehouse came close ("Any woman who can write a whole song about refusing to go to rehab and sound like Shirley Bassey is all right in my book! I'm eager to hear the music") came close, we feel that the item at right (click to enlarge) best represents the passel of feeble-minded cretins who take the time to express their slavish approval of the magazine's third-grade-level hagiographies. More »
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Ben Kunkel Is Not At All Anxious About Being Taken Seriously
Katherine Taylor is afraid of being considered a writer of chick lit ["Farrar Thinks Pink," Spencer Morgan, The New York World, March 12]. To establish her seriousness, she tells The Observer that my novel Indecision "was ridiculously simple" and suggests that "had it been a girl who'd written it, it would have had the pinkest cover in the world." I wonder why, if Ms. Taylor feels like that, she allowed her editor to send me the galleys of her novel, asking for a blurb. I didn't provide one—though I read enough of Ms. Taylor's book to understand her anxiety about being taken seriously.Way to underscore Katherine's point, Ben. You don't have to be a girl to write like a little bitch.
Benjamin Kunkel
Manhattan
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Letters To 'Interview' Continue To Amuse, Astound, Appall
Our obsession with the vapid jackasses who write letters to Interview magazine continues to pay dividends. The April issues features a pantheon of imbecility, almost all of it in praise of that publication's recent issue devoted to Elizabeth Taylor. (The one letter to range off-topic applauds the magazine's website, which is heinous.) Someone really ought to do a study on the stable of dolts who correspond with Interview: Are they the dumbest people ever to achieve literacy, or some separately-evolved race of beings for whom writing fawning letters to an oversized celebrity rag affords some sort of protection from predators? In any event, here's our favorite invention from this month's issue. Click to enlarge. More »
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Behind the Letters: Moms Against College Porno
The New York Times mag fills a front-of-book page with a grab bag of the week's correspondence. Some of the people they print are mad, some are sad, and some are impressed. Who are these people? Why did they decide to write in? Did they read whatever they're writing about during brunch? Or, was it on a porch! Gawker Weekend will provide you with that back story. More »
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The New York Times mag fills a front-of-book page with a grab bag of the week's correspondence. Some of the people they print are mad, some are sad, and some are impressed. Who are these people? Why did they decide to write in? Did they read whatever they're writing about during brunch? Or, was it on a porch! Gawker Weekend will provide you with that back story.
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Behind the Letters: I'll Give You Grainy!
The New York Times mag fills a front-of-book page with a grab bag of the week's correspondence. Some of the people they print are mad, some are sad, and some are impressed. Who are these people? Why did they decide to write in? Did they read whatever they're writing about during brunch? Or, was it on a porch! Gawker Weekend will provide you with that back story.
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