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n+1, Harper’s, nymag

plus I keep a back stock of old New Yorkers, Mother Jones, Atlantics, Jacobins, etc.

@laura_thomp

May 12, 2024

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Old magazine stories

My friend Jay recently mentioned in passing a 2010 story in The New Yorker, "Sleeping With Weapons" by Tad Friend, about the totally batshit feud between the actor and musician John Lurie and his protege John Perry. It's like 8,000+ words of mayhem and mental illness and I can't believe the magazine ran it or that I'd never read it, especially since there was a whole controversy afterward, including a hunger strike. It reminded me that there's just an endless array of weird old stores from 10 years ago, from 50 years ago, from last year, and you can just mainline them in one subway ride for no money. I always go back to stuff like Nancy Jo Sales on the Pussy Posse or the Golden Suicides, or Chris Heath's Fiona Apple cover story for Rolling Stone from 1998, or Tom Wolfe's "The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!" or Ta-Nehisi Coates on MF DOOM. (Use Pocket to get around paywalls.)

@joe-coscarelli

Nov 9, 2022

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County highway magazine

Only exists in print. Picked up a copy from Spoonbill while visiting a friend in NYC bc I wanted to read Meaghan Garvey’s write up on Leonard Cohen’s Death of a Ladies Man. Now I’m hooked and subscribed. Imagine how mysterious and sexy you’ll look reading a newspaper at your local coffee shop. While we’re here might as well double rec: Meaghan Garvey’s newsletter SCARY COOL SAD GOODBYE.

@bashfulchicken

Mar 9, 2024

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new fav trader joe’s find

I’m a bread pudding lover and this one is pretty good! It’s also super easy to heat up and already in single servings which is great for bread pudding lovers who live alone so you don’t have to make and then deal with a whole batch.

@shirtpants

Jan 18, 2025

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all over

this month’s top tracks

@shirtpants

Jan 18, 2025

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RE-REC'D BY @shirtpants

feeling wonder as a cure to modern malaise

experiencing wonder is the practice of being curious. as we grow up we are conditioned to conflate curiosity with a lack of knowledge. asking questions is seen as a flaw of character. but curiosity is what makes life interesting and wondrous. the easiest and only way to get back your child like wonder is to be more curious imo. curiosity in turn makes you more observant of the world around you. when you notice the little things, it makes you realise that there are little magic moments everywhere at all times – just like when you were a kid.

@theeyah

Jan 18, 2025

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