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How to read ‘The New Yorker’
OK, this is hilarious … I stumbled across it online and had to share.
If you subscribe to The New Yorker, you will find this to be a hoot. If you don’t … well, you should.
Back to the rest of us: It took me years, but I finally feel as though I’ve managed to come up with a routine that gets me through the magazine just in time for the next issue to arrive (or for me to go get one; alas, my sub has lapsed while I wasnt’ paying attention, and it hasn’t kicked back in yet). Folks who read it complain that they’re always behind, and that it crowds out their other reading … but then, they aren’t willing to quit… like any good, devoted junkie, they know they’re in for the next fix no matter what rationalizations they give.
The author of this piece has a good system … which, actually, is pretty much close to my one. I actually start with the critics first and, then to the Talk of the Town, and then into the middle, resolving to read at least one of the main “big” pieces in there.
I, too, skip the fiction. Don’t know why. It’s not that I don’t like fiction, obviously, but NY pieces have always struck me as samey-samey. Sue me.
And unlike this writer, I still think the cartoons are hilarious.
Enjoy!!!
http://magazineer.com/howto/30
Comments
By linda
January 26, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
my way is similar but not quite. i check out the cover — have the one of cheney as a jack-o-lantern on the refrig door. then i flip inside and check to see who the cover artist is and go through the mag and read all the cartoons and check the spots. you are not a ‘new yorker’ reader if you don’t check the spots! then it is ‘talk of the town’ and anything by herschberg, the critics and usually one of the features. i have never read the fiction. at the end, i add my great wit to the cartoon of the week.