Readers, scholars, and others: the Complete New Yorker on DVD 1/2 price

[swag]

http://www.thenewyorkerstore.com/books_completenewyorker_middle.asp?mscssid=PP9DMSBW9EAF9H768NWD8WNKCJJSE2AC&sitetype=1

Apologies for such an advert-y post about such a bourgeois topic, but today I went to the newyorker.com to purchase the 8 DVD computer-searchable set of The Complete New Yorker, for which the household had budgeted a sum, and I found that they have cut the price in half. So I thought I should post about it, since it contains 81 years and a half million pages of stuff. I think the most posted about articles from the New Yorker on DU these past few years have been Seymour Hersch's articles on Abu Ghraib, the war, and the other crimes and mendacities of the Bush Administration.



The Wikipedia entry isn't a bad intro, for those who don't know about The New Yorker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker

. . . While the magazine never lost its touches of humor, The New Yorker soon established itself as a preeminent forum for "serious" journalism and fiction. Shortly after the end of World War II, John Hersey's essay Hiroshima filled an entire issue. In subsequent decades the magazine published short stories by many of the most respected writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Ann Beattie, J.D. Salinger, Haruki Murakami, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, and John Updike. Shirley Jackson's The Lottery received more mail after publication than any other story in the New Yorker's history. In its early decades, the magazine sometimes published two or even three short stories a week, but in recent years the pace has remained steady at one story per issue. While some styles and themes recur more often than others in New Yorker fiction, the magazine's stories are marked less by uniformity than by their variety, and they have ranged from Updike's introspective domestic narratives to the surrealism of Donald Barthelme and from parochial accounts of the lives of neurotic New Yorkers to stories set in a wide range of locations and eras and translated from many languages.

The non-fiction feature articles (which usually make up the bulk of the magazine's content) are known for covering an eclectic array of topics. Recent subjects have included eccentric evangelist Creflo Dollar, the different ways in which humans perceive the passage of time, and Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

Well-known contributors have included:

Joan Acocella - cultural critic
Charles Addams - cartoonist
Woody Allen - humorist
Roger Angell, fiction editor and baseball writer
Hannah Arendt - journalist
Peter Arno - cartoonist
Whitney Balliett - jazz critic
Julian Barnes - correspondent/commentator, Britain/Europe
Robert Benchley, humorist and theatre critic
Elizabeth Bishop - poet, essayist
Sidney Blumenthal - editorialist
George Booth - cartoonist
Andy Borowitz - humorist
Maeve Brennan - essayist/short story writer
Truman Capote - novelist
Rachel Carson - writer and environmentalist
Raymond Carver - short story writer
John Cheever - short story writer
Tom Cheney - cartoonist
Sam Cobean - cartoonist
John Henry Collier - short story writer
Robert Crumb - cartoonist
Will Cuppy - humorist
Roald Dahl - short story writer
David Denby - film critic
Joan Didion - essayist
Mark Danner - foreign affairs correspondent
E. L. Doctorow - fiction writer
Elizabeth Drew - journalist
Dave Eggers - writer
Clifton Fadiman — book reviewer
James Fallows - journalist
Jules Feiffer - cartoonist
Ian Frazier - nonfiction writer and humorist
Veronica Geng - humorist
Wolcott Gibbs - parodist, humorist, reviewer, and short story writer
Brendan Gill - nonfiction writer
Malcolm Gladwell - essayist
Jonah Goldberg, political and social commentator
Paul Goldberger - architecture critic
Adam Gopnik - journalist
Philip Gourevitch - journalist
Alma Guillermoprieto - journalist
Emily Hahn - journalist
Lis Harris - journalist
Seymour Hersh - Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter
Hendrik Hertzberg - editorialist
Sue Hubbell - writer
Stanley Edgar Hyman - literary critic
Shirley Jackson - short story writer
Pauline Kael - film critic
Garrison Keillor - radio comedian
Jamaica Kincaid - author
Alex Kozinski - essayist
Nicole Krauss - novelist
Anthony Lane - film critic
A.J. Liebling - journalism critic and boxing writer
Janet Malcolm - essayist
Robert Mankoff - cartoonist and editor
Joseph Moncure March - editor
Don Marquis - cartoonist
Steve Martin - humorist
Jane Mayer - journalist
David Mazzuchelli- illustrator
Bruce McCall - humorist, illustrator
John McPhee - nonfiction writer
Louis Menand - literary critic
James Merrill - poet
Joseph Mitchell - nonfiction writer
Vladimir Nabokov - fiction writer
Ogden Nash - poet
John O'Hara - short story writer
Susan Orlean - journalist
Dorothy Parker - short story writer, drama critic, poet, humorist
S. J. Perelman - humorist
Andrew Porter - music critic
George Price - cartoonist
Alex Ross - music critic
J. D. Salinger - short story writer
Simon Schama - historian, art history, professor
John Seabrook - journalist
David Sedaris - humorist
Anne Sexton - poet
Robert Sikoryak - cartoonist
Otto Soglow — cartoonist: The Little King cartoons & others
Susan Sontag - short story writer and essayist
Art Spiegelman - illustrator
William Steig - cartoonist
Saul Steinberg - illustrator
James Surowiecki - essayist and economic/financial columnist
James Thurber - cartoonist, short story writer, and essayist
Calvin Trillin - nonfiction
John Updike - fiction, essayist
Chris Ware - cartoonist
E. B. White - essayist and editor
Edmund Wilson - literary critic
James Wood - literary critic
James Wolcott - television critic
Alexander Woollcott - theatre critic
Richard Yates - fiction writer
Toure - cultural critic

[swag]

1. Oh, it's now $49.99, which I think is unbelievable.

Edited to correct egregious typo.

[ikojo]

2. Sweet!

That's the price of a year and a half subscription to the New Yorker.

[FuzzySlippers]

3. Ooh! That's pretty cool!

[swag]

4. non-Oscar kick

[GirlinContempt]

5. why must you thwart the lumpenproletariat in this fashion?

[swag]

6. Silence! I am pursuing The Unknown Ideal!

[GirlinContempt]

7. AHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

You're thwarting the New Lefts Anti-Industrial revolution!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LynzM]

8. Wow.

:wow: That's going on my birthday wish list!!