This is the thread where we point out goodies we find in *The Complete New Yorker*

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And I haven't even started on the fiction: Thurber, White, Updike, Salinger, O'Hara, Barthelme, Cheever, Pritchett, yada yada yada. And the complete books: most of McPhee, Hiroshima, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Silent Spring, In Cold Blood, Susan Sheehan's (is that the right name?) Is There No Place On Earth For Me? How could any one with any sense resist this?

I must ask, though, how are the reproductions? I thought the PDFs in the cartoon set were a little blurry. Maybe text is easier. Not that anything would stop me from wanting this.

Can you tell I'm excited about this?

(1) Janet Flanner in Paris during the occupation, where it takes a second to tell when she's seriously bitching about not being able to get good luxury items in the hotel or whether there's something more subtle going on

(2) Hersey's "Hiroshima," if you haven't read it

(3) Joan Didion

(4) Robert Benchley's 1930s "Wayward Press" columns, under the name "Guy Fawkes," which I've been curious about but have never actually seen (not to mention plenty of proper 30s Benchley stuff, though I think he mostly wrote about drama)

(5) Would be curious to see what was written about films through the forties and fifties, and how they were addressed

(6) Edmund Wilson from the forties forward, though I think this kind of evades the best Wilson period (it was the New Republic where he was running first reviews of Joyce and Hemingway and such)

(7) Loads of Donald Barthelme stories, some of which I don't suppose have been assembled elsewhere

(8) so much!

matos, are you gonna print stuff out to read? that's what i would do.

oh, and: "Hi everyone."

Hi! i hope you stop by every once in a while.

I'd forgotten about Wilson's book reviews, even though I have a collection of them. There's a couple of famous ones where he trashes mysteries ("Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?") and H.P. Lovecraft.

Oh, and S.J. Perelman. He hasn't been mentioned yet.

As for the evening’s star attraction, Richie Havens, he did his classic, you-know-the-words hummed version of “A Little Help from My Friends,” mangled a couple of Dylan songs, treated us to the ultimate in folk art--the guitar-strum solo--and got a standing ovation.

her Sept. 9, 1969 piece on Woodstock is probably the contemporary thing I've read on that overwritten-about topic. she's extremely tough on the promoters and on how the media covered it as a love-in rather than a disaster just barely avoided.

SJ Perelman and John O'Hara would top my searchlist, maybe some profiles by Kenneth Tynan too, he did a (recetnly revived) Johnny Carson feature in the 70s that was pretty amazing.

However I've been undrewhelmed by reading the sainted Joseph Mitchell and AJ Leibling in anthologies, maybe they make more sense in context? Similiarly my parents would always shove those epic John McPhee articles under my nose in the late 70s/early 80s, reading him now on computer screen seems like a guaranteed headache.

Still, this sounds like a real treaure trove, happy hunting and keep posting yr discoveries.

He's printed two profiles of Bernarr Macfadden already, one of my favorite American eccentrics.

I think I'll buy this at the end of the week

are you laregly printing it out and reading it, m, or just reading off the screen?

Reading it onscreen. Work computer can't read DVDs.

I run linux, and so exe and app files don't work (or take a lot of work to configure).

The search is kind of a pain in the ass, though. I didn't realize it doesn't search the full text (I guess it searches the abstracts for keywords?). So for instance, I'm trying to find this article that was about a guy's "strategy" in reading a daily newspaper (which stories to avoid, etc). It was a good article and I want to read it again. But I don't know the author. But I do know it didn't appear in certain sections ("Cartoons" obviously), and that certain words were in it, and that it was published in the last 8 years. It doesn't seem I can search that way, though.

Anyway my top pick for those who have this is Calvin Trillin's article about the eccentric restuarant Shopsin's in the 4/15/02 issue. One of the greatest things ever committed to print.

Other things I haven't re-read yet, but I remember as being very good and I look forward to reading them again:

* Profile of junk collector Alex Shear in the 7/19/99 issue

* Article about Fat Possum records by Jay McInerney in the 2/4/02 issue (was in one of the Da Capo books too)...probably still online

* Tad Friend's article about suicide & the Golden Gate bridge in the 10/13/03 issue

* Short story by Tim O'Brien in the 3/8/99 issue

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any other suggestions?

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have been reading these online; that daum article about diving into debt in new york; toobins on OJ. any others? is didion's stuff the essays collected in the white album, etc?

i don't have this and i don't have an iPad, but they were made for each other, right?

now that u can just access all this w/ a subscription, there must be some like nyer archive fan sites or discussion pages that recommend things right?

it's more than a lil daunting but im positive theres a billion things in there that would blow my mind....was reading some george ws trow 2day, pretty great

yeah i agree! i dont take advantage of this enough... someone needs to help me out w/ some direction

someone needs to help me out w/ some direction

i keep meaning to read some joseph mitchell? maybe someone can read some of his profiles, and enthusiastically encourage me to get around to it.

Peter Taylor's novella The Old Forest; Ted Conover on trucking through the AIDS belt.

i keep meaning to read some joseph mitchell?

Same here! I've got Up at the Old Hotel on order at the library

ha - recently i've been alternately forgetting to go find that at the library, or forbidding myself from going and picking it up and so adding another book to the pile. it would probably be a good one to dip in and out of, as iirc the profiles are around 40 pages long. sound really interesting.

who are some other nyer writers people like/rely on? even the big names. this thread threw up trillin and a few others, and the rolling new yorker thread is keen on a couple of the staff writers.

Janet Malcolm, Ted Conover, William Finnegan.

Same here! I've got Up at the Old Hotel on order at the library

The second piece on Joe Gould is seriously depressing. Mitchell never wrote anything after that.

Was A J Liebling a Nyorker writer? He's pretty good

Yes, he wrote for the New Yorker.

I haven't looked in this in years, shame on me.

Lawrence Weschler is a favorite. Susan Orlean is usually good.

just got to the description of this in barthleme's bio - lol

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1963/03/02/1963_03_02_029_TNY_CARDS_000271957

26 June 1995 is a good one to dip into -- fiction or journal pieces by:

Nicholson baker
Phil roth
martin Amis
joyce carol oates
Richard ford
ian McEwan
mark twain (!) - newly (at the time) discovered portion of huck finn

there was also an advertisement for ordering quinoa by mail - $14.95/lb!!