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1/12/19

It's "Big Dick Nick"

“His throwing motion is a languid shrug, and his passes carve loopy, floaty arcs that seem certain to be intercepted…

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New Yorker Film Critic Has Reservations About Children's Movie Because His Boner Kept Blocking The Screen

Have you seen Incredibles 2? If you liked 2004's The Incredibles, about a family of superheroes in a sort of…

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The New Yorker Has Invented Blogging

Big news from the New Yorker: The venerated magazine is shaking things up by introducing a new “short-form news…

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Cool Old Movie Review: Pauline Kael On Tequila Sunrise

This review of Tequila Sunrise originally appeared in 1988 at The New Yorker and is reprinted here with permission…

Pauline Kael

8/28/15 3:20PM

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Surging Into Adolescence With William Finnegan

William Finnegan’s new book, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life looks like a choice read. Dig the excerpt in The New…

Alex Belth

6/01/15 11:52AM

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I Said Everything's Fine But I'm In A New Yorker State Of Mind

David Ochsner is reading every issue of The New Yorker. He’s got a blog about it, A New Yorker State of Mind. It’s…

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A Sense Of Where You Are

Oh, man, great job by The New Yorker making John McPhee's classic profile of Dollar Bill Bradley at Princeton…

Alex Belth

4/08/15 8:22PM

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Bum Deal: Simply The Best

Roger Angell on Game 7:

Alex Belth

10/30/14 4:43PM

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I Love It When You Call Me Big Papa

Found this over at Longform: The New Yorker's legendary 1950 Lillian Ross profile of Hemingway:

Alex Belth

10/30/14 11:46AM

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Jazz Needs A Better Sense of Humor

What can it mean for jazz as a living art when the most hotly debated genre event of 2014 was a satirical post on…

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The Man Without A Mask

The latest from William Finnegan is a beaut:

Alex Belth

8/25/14 1:08PM

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The Five-Forty Eight

Ah, now he's a gem from The New Yorker--John Cheever's 1954 short story, "The Five-Forty-Eight":

Alex Belth

7/29/14 9:54AM

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Roger Angell: A Baseball Companion

On Saturday in Cooperstown, Roger Angell was given the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, the baseball Hall of Fame's…

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Steve Martin: A Very Funny Fellow

There's a good excerpt from Mike Sacks' new book, Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers,…

Alex Belth

6/23/14 1:15PM

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The Hoops Whisperer

Check out this Talk of the Town piece by Reeves Wiedeman:

Alex Belth

5/07/14 3:00PM

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Hubcaps

Thomas McGuane has a good short story in this week's New Yorker:

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Down The Drain With Roger Angell

Over at the Nieman Storyboard Elon Green talks to Roger Angell about Angell's 1975 profile of Steve Blass:

Alex Belth

3/11/14 11:38AM

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Harold Ramis: A Very Funny Fellow

From Tad Friend's 2004 New Yorker profile of Harold Ramis:

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This Old Man

Nice piece by Roger Angell in the latest issue of the New Yorker:

Alex Belth

2/17/14 12:29PM

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