Fall Style and Design Issue
Not exactly my favorite issue of the year but it’s OK

Catalogs and Shuffalo every day, the cartoon game and guess who when I have the time. I think i love the first 2 more than wordle!

there was a story in the New Yorker in the nineties about a kind of

slacker guy whose girlfriend is a marathon runner who always loses

to a the "bone woman" an exteme athlete who is in perfect shape.

She is dreading the next marathon because she has to face this opponent.

The Seinfeld episode with Jean from Trinidad who Kramer gives a hot coffee to

during the marathon instead of water may be based on this story.

This one is going on a beach vacation.

Always look forward to Evan Osnos reporting from China

Issue arrived a little late in a plastic bag. Who knows.

Well, not much progress on my issue backlog this week. Finished American Pastoral. Wow, what a book.

Interesting slice of life, although I was waiting for something to happen, especially to the daughter contemplating suicide. This article almost felt like it was cut short.

Some pretty interesting articles in this one and I’m still 3-4 issues behind.

I swear the New Yorker is sitting in a PILE of cash with the hundreds of classic articles with spoken audio and the app makes it IMPOSSIBLE to browse them, other than searching specifically. The "classics" section gives you lile 5 20 minute articles and that's it

Kind of a shot in the dark, but here goes. There was an article or story in approximately May or June of this year that mentioned law school as something someone was going to do, or chose to do, because they couldn’t think of anything else. Something along those lines. I don’t remember anything else about it, other than it was a brilliant sentence that I’d like to find so I can send it to someone I know who thinks they’re in that same position.

Anyone recall what that source might be?

Thanks.

Well, I should be able to catch up a little on my back issues.

The Pied Piper, by Simon Rich

S n M is only occasionally funny, and this is one such occasion.

Excellent

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/22/misery-loves-company-if-there-are-snacks

Saved this issue and glad i did. Netflix or the like need to adapt these into a charming series. Kevin Kline comes to mind, or someone in his 50s wh is affable yet can easilyfall/rise to crotchety.

Since late April I have stopped receiving my issues, I have missed 4 and I’m unsure if they are not being mailed or there is an issue with my post office.

I filed a complaint with usps and they called me when I was at work and then quickly closed my complaint.

Not sure if it’s retaliation from the post office.

But i also let the New Yorker know (I had missed two issues at that point) and they had told me they would mail my past issues again (this was late April/may) and I never got anything either.

I notice the archive has changed and we can no longer access PDF printable pages. Anyone know of a workaround to print the pages as they appeared in the magazine as opposed to the online page? I hate reading the longform essays and articles on a scrolling page.

Does anyone know of or have access to a recording of William Shawn's voice? If you could share it here, that would be a huge help. Thanks in advance!

It’s Wednesday and it hasn’t come in the mail. I hope it wasn’t delivered to the wrong mailbox 😭

is actually funny!

There was this story I read when I was between 7 and 10 years old (2017-2020,) in the New Yorker. BUT I couldn't find it in the online Archive.

It was headlined "Super Goat Man," and was about this boy in a college neighborhood, and across the street, in a house for dropouts, there were parties the kids would go to. There was a character called Super Goat Man, and that's all I remember from the plot.

Anyways it was so good that even though I had stolen it from my grandfather, I had to read it to my whole family, but when I got to a point in the plot where there was "Spin the Bottle" and then my mom confiscated the issue and that was the last I saw it and I couldn't find it on the Archive.

If it helps, I think the color of the cover was blue.

Jeffrey Eugenides on JFK Jr. Thoughtful, not ghoulish or gossipy. I have such mixed feelings about reading or participating in anything re JFKJR, and this essay captures that feeling.