Martin Schneider writes:
I noted earlier that, to judge from the Twitter posts I’m seeing, Watchmen fans are none too pleased with The New Yorker right now, and boy oh boy does that continue to be true. But really, Watchmen fans should remember The New Yorker‘s guts in being the first national magazine to put Dr. Manhattan on its cover, way back in 1985.
Category Archives: Little Words
Wallace Week at The New Yorker: The Good and the Bad
_Martin Schneider writes:_
Love the prospect of an in-depth “article”:http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max?currentPage=all about the last days of David Foster Wallace, by D.T. Max. Not so comfortable with the unfinished “work”:http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/03/09/090309fi_fiction_wallace?currentPage=all.
DC Gossipmonger Wonkette Twits “Bemonocoled” Mag
Martin Schneider writes:
Just so you know: Much to David Denby’s presumed dismay, Wonkette directs its snark at the current issue. They like the Ivan Brunetti cover, though. As do I!
Jobs Created, in Eustace Tilley Form, at Least
This Eustace Tilley Contest entry, starring a turtlenecked Steve Jobs munching an Apple logo, is getting a lot of links.
How Do You Make an Em Dash? A Photographer Explains
Emily Gordon writes: Here’s photographer Christine Lin’s ingeniously tactile visual explanation, on her Flickr stream “Not a Photographer,” of the three little Apple keystrokes you need to create the perfect em dash.
Dwell Honors Updike on Modern Skyscrapers
Martin Schneider writes:
It’s well known that the recently departed writer John Updike was a master of most fields he took up: novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, art criticism. Friend of Emily and Dwell editor Aaron Britt adds another to the list: architecture criticism. As he writes: “Would that he had been an architecture critic; any discipline would have been lucky to have him.”
The Big Till’: Eustace Tilley Contest 2009 Winners
_Pollux writes_:
Eustace as “Rorschach”:http://classic-comics.suite101.com/article.cfm/watchmen_character_profiles_rorschach, Eustace as a Rorschach test, Eustace in bed with a butterfly, Eustace rendered in “De Stijl”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl (my personal favorite), Eustace as a Banksy piece (another great one)… these are some of the 2009 winners of the “second annual Eustace Tilley contest.”:http://www.newyorker.com/online/2009/02/09/slideshow_090209_eustacetilley?slide=12#showHeader
It is always fun to “participate “:http://emdashes.com/2008/12/more-good-news-because-we-need.php (I did!), and the winners’ entries were really strong this year. Tilley is alive and well, and Rea Irvin, looking down from that big art director’s office in the sky, would be happy to see so many different manifestations of his original creation. Loyal Emdashes readers and Tilley fans, which entries did you like?
Just Out: George Steiner at The New Yorker
Jonathan Taylor writes:
New Directions has just published George Steiner at the New Yorker, a collection of 28 of the more than 130 pieces the legendary critic contributed between 1966 and 1997, including assessments not only of Brecht, Borges, Beckett, and Benjamin, but also of Robert Pirsig, Graham Greene, and Guy Davenport.
Adam Gopnik: I Am ‘SherbrookeW’
Jonathan Taylor writes:
On the Times‘s books blog, Paper Cuts: “Stray Questions” for Adam Gopnik, who reveals his hockey message-board screen name. Also, the word “acedia” has appeared at least twice in The New Yorker: once in a poem by Derek Walcott (“Miasma, acedia, the enervation of damp…”), once in a Donald Barthelme story.
Friday Steinberg Blogging: California Cheese
Other blogs do “Friday”:http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2008/12/friday_cat_blogging_-_26_december_2008.html cat “blogging”:http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2008/05/friday-cat-blogging_30.html; we present the genius of Saul Steinberg! From the December 27, 1982, issue:
Have a good weekend, everybody! —Martin Schneider