Emdashes. The New Yorker between the lines
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Frequently:
Headline Shooter
Seal Barks
Eustace Google
Looked Into
Not exactly Irvin Type—not Irvin Type at all—but Irvin-related: artist Daniel Adel's amphibian version of the original (tongue-in-cheek, etc.) E.T. Adel has actually contributed to The New Yorker, so as you can see, it's a meta-Quaker Oats, post-postmodern Circle Game moment for me. Thanks to the multitalented Newyorkette (who reviews a giant history of Vogue in the new issue of PRINT) for the tip!
And now for the fairness and balance for which Emdashes is known: Here's someone's story about cranky readers of the magazine. I'd be cranky too if someone did to me what this person claims to have done to someone's blissful magazine-reading experience, and if I ever catch them doing it, I'll show them what real crankiness looks like!
For the record, I don't believe for a second that any New Yorker readers are shoving people on the subway. I think they're absorbed and distracted, dulling the pain of their stifling routine with mesmerizing (if horrifying) pieces about our impending water catastrophe; also funny cartoons. You should try it sometime, haughty nose-thumber of the "intelligentsia." It really helps!
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A few clips
- Report: Learning to read with comic books edited by Françoise Mouly (for Print)
- Interview: Designer Eleanor Grosch (for Print)
- Review: Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis (for Newsday)
- Review: The King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Review: Does The New Republic's recent redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Proposal: A more attractive MetroCard (for A Brief Message)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Report: Eustace Tilley spruces up for The New Yorker's website redesign (for Print)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands (for Print)
- Review: books about various New Yorker cartoonists by Liza Donnelly and Iain Topliss (for Newsday)
- Profile: screenwriter and novelist Joe Keenan (for Newsday)
- Review: The Complete New Yorker (for Print)
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- I Hate the New Yorker
- Ben Yagoda's homepage
- Access My Library
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Comments
Ahem. I personally have shoved many people on the subway. And whacked them with my The New Yorker magazine, right on the snout, and shouted, "Bad dog!" at them.
(just kidding! ha ha!)
I think most TNY readers are the shove-ees, actually, because they're so engrossed. But I have a theory: perhaps the ones that shove have realized they're about to miss their stop, and are trying to run for the door? Most shovers are actually just innocent klutzes.