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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 25, 2024, 04:30:30 pm ---I don't know why I'm so ahead of you guys, but I got July 29 yesterday. Cover drawing is of a man and boy on a bike, the man holding a torch and the boy a French flag. I didn't really get it but based on the title "Monsieur Hulot's Olympics," I gathered it's a reference to the Olympics and a filmmaker in postwar France. Not sure whether the merger of the two in one image is significant in some way, but I didn't find it catchy.
Here's an image from one of the guy's films, which the cover cartoon reproduces almost exactly with the addition of the aforementioned props:
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Monsieur Hulot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur_Hulot
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 25, 2024, 04:30:30 pm ---But on the way there, I came across an issue that I don't remember getting! Did I blank out on the memory, or is it some special thing I didn't receive? For one thing, all the other issues are identified by a specific date, and this one just says "July 2024." (Note differences in the URLs above and below.)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/the-interviews-issue-july-2024
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Well, the cover says it's a Digital Issue, so I would assume it wasn't issued in hard copy.
Front-Ranger:
Yes, there's also a lot of stuff on their web site that doesn't make it into print.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 24, 2024, 11:30:55 pm ---Ian Frazier's article on the Bronx is too long.
But the article about pirates was entertaining. Articles about pirates always are. ;D
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I agree with you on the Bronx article and I think it's also not well edited. Too much repetition. I wondered why we had to read a step-by-step account of his walking tour through the Bronx and then later he takes us on the same tour when Jimmy Carter drove it. So much about highways and other forms of transportation and so little about people, neighborhoods, shops, and food. There's been a flood of 10-page and longer articles lately. I hope this is not a trends.
The pirate article was fun but a little repetitious. The author repeats the salacious parts twice and jumps back and forth in time. At least it was shorter.
serious crayons:
Oh, I missed that it was a digital issue. I know there's a lot of stuff on their website that doesn't make print, but I didn't realize it was sometimes whole issues. I'll have to check more often!
At one point, the different amounts they were paying website vs. print writers was pretty staggering. Like, $10,000 for a print article and $150 for a website piece, the latter of which I found pretty shocking. (The former is not shocking when you consider that many of their articles top 5,000 words, and $2 a word is, or at least was, pretty standard for a national magazine.) Hopefully the digital writers are better compensated now.
The Interviews Issue might be stories from the past, though. I didn't look beyond the ToC and none sounded familiar, but I don't know.
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