I just went through a stack of old
New Yorkers that I "hadn't finished" but still "planned to read."
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I try to do that once or twice a year.
My usual practice is to throw out any that date back to the preceding presidential administration. (Then I rip out and staple individual articles that look good, stack them up, and then never read those either.) I don't think I have any from before 2017, let's hope, but this time I picked an even easier sorting method.
I threw out any that came out before March. I figured the world has changed so much since then a lot of the pieces will either no longer be relevant or will seem trivial in comparison to our current multiple crises. I realize I'm probably throwing out some great timeless articles (and probably quite a few "duty" ones
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) but I already have way more to read than I could get to even if I quit my job and read full time. So if I didn't pounce on them when the magazine first arrived, they probably weren't a priority in the first place.
Another silver lining to the pandemic -- it lets you weed out
New Yorkers faster.