Anyone have a subscription to the New Yorker?

If so, would you like to email me a copy of this? My university's library has archives going back only to 1974. Even just a readable screen capture would be great.

Let me know if this is possible, my fine, literate peers!

It is a book review of Thomas Pynchon's V....I have to get ten, and I only have nine. This would be #10!

My email is igotabeefpastry at gmail dot com

there are DVDs out there of the complete new yorker archives, which i imagine might be found on b i t t o r r e n t

I photocopied a review from a1963 issue of Commentary, and I discovered someone had drawn swastikas all over every cover. wtf!?

Is this readable enough? If so, I'll post the other two pages.

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It's readable once it's printed out. Thank you so much jaymc!

Oh, well, that's even nicer, those last two that you made bigger.

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FIN

(Actually, after that is a review of Cat's Cradle.)

You are my hero of periodicals, jaymc! Thank you so much.

You're welcome!

jaymc, if it's not too much work, can you post the review of cat's cradle

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thx

anybody want to check out THE EMPRESS with me for some authentic chinese cuisine

we can go see eddie fisher afterwards

Thanks jaymc! And thanks Abbot for asking. Do you have any other interesting Pynchon reviews?

Feldman, Irving. “Keeping Cool.” Rev. Of V., by Thomas Pynchon. Commentary Sept. 1963: 258-260. Print.

Gaines, Ervin J. Rev. Of V., by Thomas Pynchon. Library Journal 15 Feb. 1963: 795-796. Print.

Hassan, Ihab. “The Futility Corner.” Rev. Of V., by Thomas Pynchon. Saturday Review 23 Mar. 1963: 44. Print.

“Pieces of What?” Rev. Of V., by Thomas Pynchon. The Times Literary Supplement 11 Oct. 1963: 813. Print.

Plimpton, George. “Mata Hari With a Clockwork Eye, Alligators in the Sewer.” Rev. Of V., by Thomas Pynchon. New York Times 21 Apr. 1963: BR3. Web.

Rev. Of V., by Thomas Pynchon. Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1963: lxxxviii. Print.

Ricks, Christopher. “Voluminous.” Rev. Of V., by Thomas Pynchon. New Statesman 11 Oct. 1963: 492. Print.

“V. for Victory.” Rev. Of V., by Thomas Pynchon. Newsweek, 1 Apr. 1963: 82-84. Print.

"The sad thing is that Mr. Pynchon writes with enormous skill and virtuosity. It is a pity that his imagination feeds on such nauseous themes." – The Times Literary Supplement

These are all really fun to read bcz it's his first book & he doesn't have a reputation yet.

Huh. For some reason I thought that Crying of Lot 49 came first, but I guess not.

"To put it plainly, much of V. is unreadable...Pynchon is an extremely facile writer of caricature...the characters do not struggle with one another but against their premises." – Irving Feldman

This reminded me of the ILX experience!

"A British reader ought to admit uncertainty as to the tone of the book. V. shows clearly that American slang is not so much obscure as too freshly imaginative, still untarnished, to the non-American...Probably we ought to acknowledge that V.'s moral stance is very hard for us to be sure about just because of a genuine language problem." – Christopher Ricks

^^^did you find this was the case, "I am using your worlds"?

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2010/05/24/100524sh_shouts_rich

This is just... what? I know Shouts and Murmurs is hardly ever good but Jesus Christ New Yorker, have a little self-respect.

The Official ILX Simon Rich Shouts & Murmurs thread is here.

New Yorker totally OTM, V. is a mess and the tight, mature Cats Cradle is far better. Crying of Lot 49, now you've got an argument.

shouts & murmurs is almost always p terrible whats really annoying are the now monthly "profiles of reactionary monsters" feature.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/09/jason-schwartzman-ipad-video.html

deadpan wackiness has gone too far imo

Jason Schwartzman is really hard for me to watch.

looks like a dope app

should be free for subscribers imo

Is it not? That's lame.

makes sense s1ocki

that's what they call me

:)

can anyone explain why nancy franklin has a column? jesus

max

here's her lede about 3D television:

The tallest structure in Bristol, Connecticut, a city of about sixty thousand people some twenty miles west of Hartford, is a twenty-nine-story monolith where Otis Elevator tests new equipment and analyzes the flaws in existing equipment. But the real beacon of the city is more horizontal: ESPN, whose headquarters, a sprawling campus of low buildings, has been there since the cable sports channel was founded, in 1979.

so glad i have those facts about both new AND existing equipment, and how tall that building is

ya is that relevant at all... like is the article about tall or wide things? i guess it's abotu 3d so kinda?

I tried watching World Cup games four years ago and was preoccupied with the peculiarity of a sport that doesn’t allow the use of arms, which, after all, make up half our complement of excellent sporting appendages (forty per cent, if you include heads), and of the confounding combination of endless minutes of scoreless running around and free kicks that lead to sudden goals.

ha! ha ha! so glad you are writing about this!

goddamn

she should be given her own NPR monologue show which airs at like 2 in the morning

can anyone explain why nancy franklin has a column? jesus

Horseshoe to thread.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/susanorlean/2010/10/haunted.html

When did Halloween become, to use the marketing phrase of the moment, spooktacular? The inflatable black cats, the four-hundred-dollar Rocking Crotchety Grandpa lawn displays, the illuminated foam tombstones, the bats with L.E.D. eyes, the Pumpkin Jack fog machines, the plastic Rotted Flesh body parts—when did these all happen? The haunted houses with fifteen-dollar admission fees? The parades? The festivals? The “Have a Horrid Halloween” cards?

uh... decades ago?

this is seriously someone who has written a wry column saying halloween has become too commercialized

Man, remember when it used to be about the human sacrifices and the grave-robbing? Now it's just like a bunch of middle-class bullshit.

she sucks but my least favorite NYer features are still the totally pointless patricia marx shopping pieces

The Noah's Ark cartoon in the cartoon issue -- so great.

3D TV article intro made me psyched to read about the manufacture and testing of Otis elevators! Bummer.

(I am not kidding; for some reason I really would rather read about elevator testing than 3D television. I realise this may be slightly unusual.)

no, me too!

you might be interested in "the intuitionist" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intuitionist

uh they just had an article about elevator testing

oh it was a couple of years ago but Jordan just put it on his FB page:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten

great article btw

Thank you Tracer and n/a, one new addition to my Amazon wishlist and one new distraction to while away a Friday afternoon in the office

she sucks but my least favorite NYer features are still the totally pointless patricia marx shopping pieces

OTM

oh totally

i don't understand them at all

are they supposed to be like, parody?

i seriously dont know if they're supposed to be funny or not

like obviously I'm not the target audience for those columns, but I've lived in Chicago for almost seven years now and this is like almost in a foreign language to me: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/14/090914fa_fact_marx. like I've never heard of any of these stores or people.

like like like

so bad

belongs in a forgettable spot in the NY Observer imo

nancy franklin has a column because there is no god

the weird thing about the nyer is its so good but it employs so many irritating writers

i mean nancy franklin sucks but christ at least shes not david denby or adam gopnik

some weeks i just skip the whole critics at large section because i dont have the energy to complain to my girlfriend about it

peter schjedahl more like peter shitall

oh i kind of like him

more like peter schjedahl then

i feel he had more freedom at the Voice but yeah he's good

i think its schjeldahl

more like peter schjeldahl

^ lol @ all that

Very nice Rebecca Mead article on growing old with George Eliot novels. Almost forced me to read Middlemarch for the third time.

please please please could anyone with a NY subscription paste the text of this somewhere http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/02/11/080211fa_fact_grann?printable=true

sounds like a fascinating article (soon to be made into a film, directed by polanski) but i balk at paying $6 for one article - you have to pay for the entire issue!

as i keep saying, i really wish the publishing/magazine industry would sort this out and come up with an itunes type thing where archived magazines articles from q, new yorker, etc can be downloaded for like a quid or two. licence to print money, surely

you can't copy/paste from new yorker archives--they have their own proprietary system

you should just buy this book, its really good and that article is in it:

http://www.amazon.com/Devil-Sherlock-Holmes-Madness-Obsession/dp/0385517920

ah thanks didn't realise it was a book, will get that instead. so NY articles work like a pdf type thing? i guess screenshots could get round that, but really, how pissy - what if you wanted to make notes and quotes from it

you could probably get it through a library database, don't know where you live but i can get into it through my public library's website and through the academic library that i work for.

yeah its a pdf-like online viewer, though you cant even download it. you could take screenshots but it's a pain. its slow and buggy and sucks, basically.

you can! i mean, it is fiddly and all, but you can download things; you just have to be zoomed in before right clicking and choosing save as. you get jpgs, and the pictures don't render, but it's useful if you want to print or pass something on.

well! apologies to david remnick in that case

Anyone have a lead on the best New Yorker subscription price online?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1400064740/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

i have one of these unwrapped :-(

doorstop?

what do i do with it?

If you buy a copy of the print version (not a subscription, a single issue), do you get access to the digital version?

No, you don't.

wtf lol "publes"

love how a bunch of those 'V' reviews that open this thread all basically come down to, "um, this is really hard to understand?"

i couldn't find a more appropriate thread, but remember all the fuss about the nytimes new web policy, 20 views a month and that's it (and later it switched to 10 a month, i think? i didn't notice the switch because i read all nytimes articles for free online by deleting everything in the URL starting with the question mark and then hitting enter, once i reach the limit. information should be free maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan).

anyway, has there been any sort of recent analysis about what that ended up doing to online readership? just curious.

could anyone post this for a brit? would be mega grateful!

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/29/130729fa_fact_buford