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  1. sex scenes
    Sex Between the Pages at The New Yorker Festival“I used to know that [sex scenes] were good if I turned myself on while I was writing them. … now that doesn’t happen as much.”
    By Brandon Sanchez
  2. 1.5x speed
    The People’s Maximum FunA pioneering podcast company becomes worker-owned.
    By Nicholas Quah
  3. rip
    Peter Schjeldahl, Art Critic for The New Yorker, Dead at 80Schjeldahl, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019, wrote the towering personal essay “The Art of Dying.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  4. books
    Hua Hsu Is True to the GameHis new memoir is both a coming-of-age story and an evolutionary step for Asian American literature.
    By Ryu Spaeth
  5. extremely online
    Jeffrey Toobin Suspended From New Yorker for ‘Zoom Dick Incident’Toobin reportedly masturbated during an “election simulation.”
    By Justin Curto
  6. new yorker festival 2019
    Liz Phair Just Wants to Live in a Period Drama and Help Cows Build VillagesLet’s get her on The Crown.
    By Justin Curto
  7. weinstein books
    Ronan Farrow’s Weinstein Book Will Be Personal, He Says in Surprise AppearancePopping into a BookExpo lunch, he talked about “some of the low points I’m now reliving.”
    By BORIS KACHKA
  8. one grand books
    William Finnegan’s 10 Favorite BooksGeorge Orwell, Elena Ferrante, and more.
    By William Finnegan
  9. brooklyn book festival 2018
    The Brooklyn Book Festival’s Tote-Bag Power RankingsA status update on which tote was the GOAT (and which were not worth our time) at the 2018 Brooklyn Book Festival.
    By Evan Allgood
  10. les moonves
    CBS Investigating Les Moonves Ahead of New Yorker Report“The Board will promptly review the findings and take appropriate action.”
    By Hunter Harris
  11. feedback
    Lola Kirke Wrote a Letter to the Editor Over The New Yorker’s Gemini Review“I am disappointed by Anthony Lane’s glib criticism of my character’s appearance in the film Gemini.”
    By Hunter Harris
  12. one grand books
    Roz Chast’s 10 Favorite Books“I avoid books about either World War. Or any war, really.”
    By Roz Chast
  13. lawyers
    Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Up in Advance of Possible ExposésThe mogul has reportedly been in touch with the Clintons’ crisis manager Lanny Davis.
    By Nate Jones
  14. 100 things
    100 More Jokes That Shaped Modern ComedyA second look at bits, sketches, one-liners, and even modern art that have influenced American humor for the past 170 years.
    By Jesse David Fox
  15. ‘The New Yorker’ Now Has a Cover-to-Cover Parody Thanks to ‘The Neu Jorker’A bunch of talented writers and illustrators have teamed up to create a very ambitious parody: a cover-to-cover take on an issue of The New […]
    By Megh Wright
  16. Where Digital Publications’ Comedy Videos Are Headed In April of 2001, a dot com bubble baby named Kozmo.com laid off over a thousand employees because its business model of […]
    By Luke Kelly Clyne
  17. last night on late night
    Late Night Presents ‘Live New Yorker Cartoons’Buckle up, buttercup.
    By Halle Kiefer
  18. movie critics
    Hollywood Bad-Boy Jesse Eisenberg Trolls Critics in New Yorker Piece“Based on an idea that I poorly executed in grad school.”
    By Nate Jones
  19. ‘Key and Peele’ Showrunner Jay Martel Looks Back on the Show’s EvolutionIn anticipation of tonight’s double-episode Key and Peele series finale, writer and co-executive producer Jay Martel wrote a piece for The New […]
    By Megh Wright
  20. job openings
    The New Yorker’s David Denby Steps Down From Film Critic Post [Updated]To focus on his book.
    By E. Alex Jung
  21. ‘The New Yorker’ Profiles Tig Notaro’s Topless NYC Standup Set“She is a deadpan comedian of the driest vintage, and her face remained stolid. The patches of the audience that were stunned into silence […]
    By Megh Wright
  22. Louis C.K. on Chris Rock’s Film Career: ‘All He Really Needed to Do Was Be […]“Louis C.K. thinks that the solution to Rock’s movie problem was obvious in retrospect. ‘His honesty and thoughtfulness and intelligence—it […]
    By Megh Wright
  23. short stories
    Tom Hanks Has a Short Story in The New Yorker“Alan Bean Plus Four.”
    By Lindsey Weber
  24. Read an Excerpt from Lena Dunham’s Upcoming Book ‘Not That Kind of Girl’“Sitting with my mother in the beauty salon one afternoon, I come across an article about obsessive-compulsive disorder. A woman describes her […]
    By Megh Wright
  25. ‘The New Yorker’ Profiles Eugene Mirman’s Live Version of ‘StarTalk’“Throughout the show, these jokes created pauses for laughter, welcome little breaks in the onslaught of science, that allowed our brains to […]
    By Megh Wright
  26. Simon Rich Reimagines a Classic Joke for ‘The New Yorker’Author, former SNL writer, and creator of the upcoming FXX show Man Seeking Woman Simon Rich wrote a humor piece in The New Yorker called “Guy […]
    By Megh Wright
  27. ‘The New Yorker’ Profiles ‘Mad’ Magazine as an Anti-Smoking Ad PioneerThe New Yorker ran an excellent article last week about Mad magazine’s big anti-smoking push during the ‘60s, which resulted not only in tons […]
    By Megh Wright
  28. Dick Cavett Reflects on His Worst Show Ever for ‘The New Yorker’Here’s a video of the “excruciating” September 18, 1970 episode of The Dick Cavett Show, in which guests John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, and Ben […]
    By Megh Wright
  29. Michael Cera Delves Into His Texting Past in ‘The New Yorker’“Jeremy, a man I am no longer in touch with, was someone I once considered a friend. It started out very simply: one day I received a text […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  30. Amy Poehler Wrote About Her First Job at an Ice Cream Parlor“But when I stood in the dining room and demanded attention I was reminded of things I already secretly knew about myself. I wasn’t shy, I […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  31. ‘The New Yorker’ Writes About ‘How Podcasts Conquered Comedy’The New Yorker has a new article out today called “How Podcasts Conquered Comedy,” an in-depth history of how the newish medium has changed the […]
    By Bradford Evans
  32. A Documentary About ‘New Yorker’ Cartoonists Needs Your Help The makers of Very Semi-Serious, a new documentary taking audiences behind the scenes of the New Yorker cartoons of the past, present, and […]
    By Bradford Evans
  33. ‘SNL’s Colin Jost Dreams Up Several Silly Movie Sequels for ‘The New […]SNL’s co-head writer Colin Jost has a funny new piece in The New Yorker today in which he previewed this summer’s unlikely movie sequels, […]
    By Bradford Evans
  34. Lena Dunham Wrote a Thing About How Much She Likes Puppies for ‘The New […]Lena Dunham wrote a personal essay called “A Box of Puppies” that appears in The New Yorker this week. It’s worth the read if you like Lena […]
    By Bradford Evans
  35. Simon Rich’s New Novella Is Being Serialized in ‘The New Yorker’ Starting […]Former SNL writer Simon Rich’s new novella Sell Out is being serialized this week in The New Yorker. You can check out Part 1 of 4 now. The […]
    By Bradford Evans
  36. in development
    Brad Pitt, HBO Developing Debt-Collector DramaBased on a New Yorker article.
    By Margaret Lyons
  37. the cursing mommy
    Listen to Cynthia Nixon As The Cursing MommyThank you, Ian Frazier, thank you!
    By Andre Tartar
  38. How to Be Simon Rich“So many times I’d write a sketch set at, say, a marriage counselor’s office and I was so naïve and unsophisticated working in television that […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  39. Let Lena Dunham and Jon Hamm Teach You About the ‘New Yorker’ iPhone App The New Yorker just launched its iPhone app today, a slick little number that allows you to read David Grann’s reportage on the subway without […]
    By Adam Frucci
  40. The ‘New Yorker’ Purchases the ‘Borowitz Report’; Is Launching a Humor […]Humorist Andy Borowitz has long been a contributor to the New Yorker, well it seems the magazine no longer wants to just borrow(itz) […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  41. movies
    Clooney to Direct Film About U.S.-Born Rebel in CubaBased on David Grann’s piece The Yankee Comandante.
    By Brett Smiley
  42. the way we serialize fiction now
    Jennifer Egan’s New Yorker Story Will Be TweetedAll 8,500 words of it.
    By Zach Dionne
  43. Who Is Matt Graham?(To the tune of the theme from Shaft:) Who’s the comedian Louis C.K. and Janeane Garofalo thought would be famous in Boston in the 80s? […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  44. Simon Rich Gives God a Girlfriend in The New YorkerThis week’s New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs is a very funny piece by SNL’s Simon Rich about how Genesis might’ve gone if God was dating someone. […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  45. The New Yorker Reviews WhitneyEmily Nussbaum’s New Yorker review of Whitney and 2 Broke Girls is pretty spot-on. She goes beyond the usual Sarah Silverman-Chelsea Handler […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  46. SNL’s Zach Kanin’s 2012 Predictions Are GreatNew SNL writer and New Yorker cartoonist Zach Kanin drew up some pretty exciting predictions for 2012. (You know, in his spare time. I hear […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  47. Arrested Development To Return With More Episodes, Confirm The Power Of […]HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? This news implies some sort of supernatural intervention to me, by a force that surrounds us and penetrates us and binds […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  48. The New Yorker Festival Hosts Arrested Development ReunionThe New Yorker Arrested Development reunion panel is coming up October 2, the magazine announced today, and will feature a “Bluth Family […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  49. clickables
    Read Roger Ebert’s Winning New Yorker Cartoon CaptionHe finally won!
    By Amanda Dobbins
  50. Learn How Adam McKay Channels ‘Cosmic Rage’ In His Therapist’s New Yorker […]If you’re wondering if seeing a therapist will help your bizarre comedian tendencies, well, help is such subjective word. This week’s The New […]
    By Halle Kiefer
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