Tag Archives: the New Yorker

Thom Jones: The Pugilist at Rest (in Peace)

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Sean Murphy

Thom Jones was not a one-shot wunderkind so much as a career scrapper who banged back at a world intent on beating the shit out of him. Continue reading →

Posted in Appreciations | Tagged baseball, boxing, Cold Snap, Dostoyevsky, Jake LaMotta, short stories, Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine, the New Yorker, The Pugilist at Rest, Theogenes, Thom Jones, tolstoy, writing | 1 Comment

Garden Gnomes

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Rosarita Morgenstern

Rosarita hooks up with a random guy for the first time in ten years…will her worst fears be realized? Continue reading →

Posted in Welcome Kink | Tagged dating, gonorrhea, OKCupid, random sex, singles, STDs, the New Yorker, Walk of Shame | Leave a comment

Losing Faith in the Gleam

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Nathaniel Missildine

Nathaniel Missildine on Scarlett Johansson, Anthony Lane, and the function of movie stars. Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema | Tagged Anthony Lane, backlash, Esther Breger, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson, The New Republic, the New Yorker | Leave a comment

Looking at the Numbers Trouble: The VIDA Count and Me

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Zoe Zolbrod

Twenty years before VIDA started collecting statistics that revealed how many more men than women were featured in premier literary publications, Zoe Zolbrod noticed the same kind of disparity. She tried to talk herself out of paying attention, until VIDA’s numbers helped her remember why she should. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Politics | Tagged Alice Munro, AWP, Beyonce, E.J. Graff, feminism, gender bias, Girls, Granta, Jeannette Winterson, Katha Pollitt, Lorrie Moore, Marixsm, Martha Bayne, Mary Gaitskill, Maxine, Sheryl Sandberg, The Collagist, The Nation, the New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, VIDA | 1 Comment

The Best Author Profile You’ll Read This Week

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Janet Steen

Janet Steen talks about writers talking about themselves. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | Tagged "The Semplica Girl Diaries, author profiles, D.T. Max, david foster wallace, Elizabeth Wurtzel, George Saunders, Joel Lovell, Meghan Daum, New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker | 3 Comments

Notes From Bovina: Shock and Awe

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

How does a poet and art critic, that would be Peter Schjeldahl perhaps the shyest man on earth, become a pyro? Jennifer Kabat finds out in Bovina, NY. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged 7 Days magazine, Adam Horovitz, Alan Cumming, Amy Sedaris, Ben Stiller, Bovina New York, fireworks, Julianne Moore, Peter Schjeldahl, Steve Martin, The New York Observer, the New Yorker | Leave a comment

The Stealth Fight Against Stupidity

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Janet Steen

In which Janet Steen dares to be smart — and shows us how. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Angelina Jolie, Fence, Gene Hackman, Geoff Dyer, Georges Perec, Glee, Howard Zinn, Jennifer Egan, Noam Chomsky, Paul Auster, Susan Sontag, Terry Gross, The Literary Review, The Lowbrow Reader, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker | 15 Comments