Author Topic: Brokeback Mountain short story in Oct 13, 1997 "New Yorker" - Images (Read 47354 times)

JennyC · « **on:** July 21, 2006, 08:58:52 pm »

I found “Brokeback Mountain” short story in my "The Complete New Yorker" DVDs. Thought you may want to look at the images of the short story in the original publication. (Click to enlarge)

adrian · « **Reply #1 on:** July 22, 2006, 03:42:30 am »

Thank you JennyC for sharing that with us. I wish I had known about it 9 years ago!

moremojo · « **Reply #2 on:** August 30, 2006, 10:36:05 am »

Cool! Thanks for sharing these great scans. We have a copy of that issue of The New Yorker in the library at which I work, and I managed to read the publication of the story there a few days after first seeing the movie.

twistedude · « **Reply #3 on:** September 01, 2006, 01:52:44 pm »

I have an (excellent!) copy of a copy of that New Yorker. besides the first two italcized paragraphs, the only difference I could find was---when she's listing the things they discussed on the "paw the white out of the moon" night, in the New Yorker, it says "military service," which she later changed to "draft."

The New Yorker gives no clue as to what the story will be about ("Cowboys and horses and long lonely nights in the wilderness") guess you can see that from jenny's page one. neat cartoon of Annie P, and I LOVE that illustration from another story, which I also have in my copy.

j.U.d.E. · « **Reply #4 on:** September 01, 2006, 06:48:30 pm »

Yes, cool!! Thank you very much for sharing! Amazing that it took so many years before it got made into a film. But we all know why. And besides, better now than around that time.. For some reason, I think I wouldn't have been 'ready' for so much beauty back then.

j. U. d. E.

mvansand76 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 03, 2006, 07:00:38 am »

Wow, this was great to see, thanks for posting!

Ellemeno · « **Reply #6 on:** October 12, 2006, 10:57:02 pm »

Wow, I missed this til now. Let's sticky it for its anniversary. Cruising through, I notice there are some changes in the names of Ennis's places of employment. Thank you, Jenny for thinking of looking for this, and posting it for us. Clarissa

Toast · « **Reply #7 on:** October 13, 2006, 04:05:59 pm »

The New Yorker Magazine

Just a note to remind everyone that it was on October 13, 1997
NINE YEARS AGO
that Annie Proulx saw the publication of
Brokeback Mountain
in this edition of The New Yorker Magazine.

since then it has appeared in their magazine as
a movie review,
a spoken word recording by Suzy Amis
and grist for their cartoons

What if I dont want to be Jack or Ennis.

Thank You Annie and The New Yorker
for getting Brokeback off to a start.

I was about to post this and I got the scans of the actual pages
Thanks
Toast

RebelWithASmile · « **Reply #8 on:** October 13, 2006, 08:38:38 pm »

Its such a amazing tale that i can not articulate. I really don't fathom how Annie Proulx came up with Brokeback Mountain, what made her think of the imagery or the symbols, or the ambiguties, or anything? Its so complex in some ways, but in simple in others. I'm losing my Brokeback grip

but theres still a part of me that is very attached to the story

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #9 on:** February 08, 2007, 12:24:08 pm »

Is it my imagination, or does the New Yorker have some sort of strategy to mention Brokeback in every issue? This week it was in a story about research on gay sheep.

Jeff Wrangler · « **Reply #10 on:** February 08, 2007, 12:38:18 pm »

Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 08, 2007, 12:24:08 pm

Is it my imagination, or does the New Yorker have some sort of strategy to mention Brokeback in every issue? This week it was in a story about research on gay sheep.

Gay sheep? That's b-a-a-a-a-a-a-d.

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #11 on:** October 09, 2007, 03:02:09 pm »

Is everybody ready for the 10th anniversary??

moremojo · « **Reply #12 on:** October 09, 2007, 08:19:34 pm »

I'll almost certainly be offline on the day itself. Does anyone know when the issue was actually printed up? Or first offered for sale on the stands? Seems like the tenth anniversary of that may have already passed.

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #13 on:** October 13, 2012, 10:12:11 am »

Happy 15th anniversary!

Meryl · « **Reply #14 on:** October 13, 2012, 11:26:50 am »

Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 13, 2012, 10:12:11 am

Happy 15th anniversary!

Fifteen years, damn!

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #15 on:** October 13, 2012, 02:54:54 pm »

I remember so clearly coming home from work after a stressful day and seeing that issue of the magazine lying on the kitchen counter. It is always a bit of a lift when the week's new issue arrives! I read the front matter before dinner and it wasn't until bedtime when I began reading the story. I often skip the fiction in the New Yorker but something drew me in on this one. Perhaps it was the almost mythical tone, "They were raised on small, poor ranches in opposite parts of the state..." who wouldn't want to read more? Although I read the first two pages very attentively, I was not ready at all for the "no instruction manual needed" part. I thought to myself, "I didn't know the story was going to go in this direction" and I actually thought twice about continuing to read. And then I thought, "Why not?" and I'm so glad I did. It is one of the small handful of artistic works that have actually changed my life.

Sason · « **Reply #16 on:** October 13, 2012, 03:50:45 pm »

I read the story only after I saw the movie.

I was deeply disappointed.

I was in my most devastated and heartbroken state after experiencing the shock of BBM, and I was desperate to find out more about Jack and Ennis. Hoping that the story would give me more information about them that the movie did (which is usually the case), I ordered the book in Swedish translation. But, the story contained even less info about them! And besides, it was written in such a strange language, I wondered if the translation was bad.
So I bought the English book as well, where the language was just as strange! Didn't make me find out one bit more about Jack and Ennis!

Later, I've come to appreciate the story a great deal, but it will always be the movie that had such an unexpected and huge impact on me and changed my life.

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #17 on:** October 15, 2013, 12:23:18 pm »

And here it is! My original pages from the magazine are packed away already in preparation for selling my house. So, I'm glad to have these facsimiles.

Quote from: JennyC on July 21, 2006, 08:58:52 pm

I found “Brokeback Mountain” short story in my "The Complete New Yorker" DVDs. Thought you may want to look at the images of the short story in the original publication. (Click to enlarge)

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #18 on:** October 15, 2013, 12:25:34 pm »

Quote from: twistedude on September 01, 2006, 01:52:44 pm

I have an (excellent!) copy of a copy of that New Yorker. besides the first two italcized paragraphs, the only difference I could find was---when she's listing the things they discussed on the "paw the white out of the moon" night, in the New Yorker, it says "military service," which she later changed to "draft."

It makes perfect sense to change the clunky "military service" to "draft" as it ties in with Jack's "windy" personality!

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #19 on:** October 06, 2015, 11:18:17 am »

Eighteen years ago, tomorrow. You may wonder why I don't celebrate on October 13, the New Yorker issue's publication date. As a subscriber, I always received my issue a few days early.

Did anyone else around here read the story when it first came out?

Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 13, 2012, 02:54:54 pm

I remember so clearly coming home from work after a stressful day and seeing that issue of the magazine lying on the kitchen counter. It is always a bit of a lift when the week's new issue arrives! I read the front matter before dinner and it wasn't until bedtime when I began reading the story. I often skip the fiction in the New Yorker but something drew me in on this one. Perhaps it was the almost mythical tone, "They were raised on small, poor ranches in opposite parts of the state..." who wouldn't want to read more? Although I read the first two pages very attentively, I was not ready at all for the "no instruction manual needed" part. I thought to myself, "I didn't know the story was going to go in this direction" and I actually thought twice about continuing to read. And then I thought, "Why not?" and I'm so glad I did. It is one of the small handful of artistic works that have actually changed my life.

Jeff Wrangler · « **Reply #20 on:** October 06, 2015, 12:21:51 pm »

Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 06, 2015, 11:18:17 am

Did anyone else around here read the story when it first came out?

Absolutely! Of course! I've been subscribing to TNY since the early 1980s.

Tell you what, though. I really can't say any more why I read it or what drove me to read it, since, like Larry McMurtry, I don't generally read the short fiction. Perhaps I just recognized Annie Proulx's name and was curious. Perhaps I skimmed it and picked up on the male-male love theme. I really can't say.

Jeff Wrangler · « **Reply #21 on:** October 13, 2015, 12:21:14 pm »

Today is the day, October 13.

Hard to believe, in two more years it will be 20 years since the story was first published.

We can thank Tina Brown for it, I guess.

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #22 on:** October 14, 2015, 09:56:19 am »

I like to celebrate the day quietly. It was like a smooth stone dropped into a pond with hardly a sound, but the waves that emanated eventually reached the entire world!

Sason · « **Reply #23 on:** October 14, 2015, 12:35:21 pm »

Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 14, 2015, 09:56:19 am

I like to celebrate the day quietly. It was like a smooth stone dropped into a pond with hardly a sound, but the waves that emanated eventually reached the entire world!

What a beautiful image, Lee!

Pure poetry!

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #24 on:** October 14, 2016, 04:59:35 pm »

The happy day has come again! Thank you to Annie Proulx for her hard work and insight.

Sason · « **Reply #25 on:** October 14, 2016, 05:17:36 pm »

What an amazing chain of events that brought us all here!!

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #26 on:** October 13, 2020, 05:24:01 pm »

Twenty-three years...damn!

(thanks to Truman for alerting us on another platform)

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