I Hate The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I was watching the movie Lifeboat and one of the opening shots is a copy of The New Yorker magazine, with a Eustace Tilley cover. The magazine is floating amid other debris from the torpedoed ship that had carried the rag-tag crew that would eventually find themselves in the aforementioned lifeboat. Cute.
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Apropos of our popular “Open Letter to Kanye West,” may we recommend the “Shouts & Murmurs in this week’s New Yorker? “I have more than a million [Facebook] fans,” writes a certain unnamed narrator. “Do you know how many fans Books have? Twenty-five thousand seven hundred and sixty-four.”
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Martin Schneider writes: According to the New Yorker Festival's Twitter feed , tickets to most events are available today at the Cedar Lake Theater at 547 West 26th St. (One hour left to buy!) This will presumably mean that there will be a few more tickets available at individual event. "Tailing Tilley," the interactive walking game involving Eustace Tilley, has been...
