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I had to go buy two pristine copies of the magazine this morning for something I’m working on, and at the newsstand around the corner (on Madison and 30th, should you be stalking me), there were two copies left. “You’re lucky I have two!” said the proprietor of the small magazine shop. (Not to be confused with the little-magazine shop, Niko’s on Sixth Ave. at Eleventh St., where, years ago, a young Russian employee responded to the news that I was leaving The Nation for Newsday with the booming review, “From the socialists to the technocrats!”)
Are people buying magazines and newspapers these days? Yes, he said, but not as many, and definitely fewer newspapers. “Even the porn magazines, the foreign magazines, the tattoo magazines?” I asked, looking around the inventory. Yep, he’s selling fewer of all of the above. “But The New Yorker sells out?” “Every week, every copy.” So, you see, the news isn’t all bleak.
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Dashes, some say, “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like an em dash itself—provides a thoughtful pause amid the hubbub.
Emdashes, founded in 2004, is written and drawn by Emily Gordon, Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, as well as occasional guest contributors. All posts before October 2008 are by Emily Gordon.
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Additional drawings are by Carolita Johnson and Pollux (author of our web comic, "The Wavy Rule"). The Emdashes pencil logo is by Jennifer Hadley, based on a 1943 Dorothy Gray ad.
Other writing by Emily Gordon
- Reviews: theater writing (for Time Out Chicago)
- Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World)
- Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, bon vivant, New Yorker founding father (for Print)
- Slide show: the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for NYCgo.com)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Homage: Celebrating lindy-hop legend Frankie Manning (for NYCgo.com)
- Inquiry: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Interviews: four up-and-coming designers under 30 (for Print)
- Profile: novelist and dance critic Laura Jacobs (for Newsday)
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Comments
I HAVE NOT RECEIVED MY NEW YORKER TWO TIMES OUT OF THE LAST FOUR. i CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT IT!
WHAT RECOURSE HAVE I??
Hello Margaret,
You can reach the New Yorker subscription department at 1-800-825-2510 or via this link:
https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/N3/NYR/FAQ_new.jsp?lsid=32711233040033335&vid=1&cds_mag_code=NYR
i got a letter inviting me to resubscribe for $25 a year a couple of months ago … i cannot find it.
please bill me and send for another year.
thanx
Roger,
You can also reach the New Yorker subscription department at 1-800-825-2510, or via this link:
https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/N3/NYR/FAQ_new.jsp?lsid=32711233040033335&vid=1&cds_mag_code=NYR
I have been asubscriber for 40 years and am paid up through mid 2013. I have not recieved a copy of New Yorker in 3 weels. What should I do?
Mr. Wisenteiner,
I sent your comment to someone at The New Yorker, and I trust they’ve replied to you by now about your missing issues. Please let me know if you need help, though.
All the best,
Emily Gordon
Our January 9 issue has missing and duplicate
pages. A lot of it is unreadable. Please send us another copy.
Thanks,
John Herschel
NYR0543095038
Dear Mr. Herschel,
I’m sorry I didn’t see your comment sooner. Did you get your replacement issue from The New Yorker? I’ve passed along your note to the magazine just in case.
All the best,
Emily