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Secret Michelin Man

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 11.18.2009 | Comedy

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Jilly Gagnon

Arrived home from my "business trip" in "Kansas City." If my wife knew that I was really at the Double Tree Times Square, asking the concierge to book me into Y---- and Brasserie G----- under "my name," she'd be hysterical.

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November New Yorker Cover Features iPhone 'Painting': See How It's Done! (VIDEO)

Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

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For its November 16, 2009 issue, New Yorker magazine featured an image of the New York skyline at night, with one unusual twist: the image was created...

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I'm Not Happy to Serve You: Authors and the New Publishing by Consensus

Wednesday Martin | Posted 10.31.2009 | Books

Read More: Wednesday Martin, Writing Process, Publishing, New Yorker, Publishing Industry, Writing, Bestseller, Writer, Alloy Entertainment, Publishing by Consensus, Stepmonster, Books News
Wednesday Martin

I didn't become a writer so that I could be a market researcher who tailors my thinking and writing to the interests of the people who made fun of me in high school.

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Governor Rick Perry and His Texas Death Machine Are In Big Trouble

David A. Love | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dna, George Bush, Capital Punishment, Execution, Cameron Todd Willingham, Crime, Rick Perry Secession, George W. Bush, Criminal Justice, Rick Perry, Texas, Jim Crow, New Yorker, Prison, Lynching, Forensic Science, Criminal Justice System, Death Penalty, Craig Beyler, Sharon Keller, Politics News
David A. Love

Cameron Todd Willingham is now a free man, but unfortunately it took death to release him from the confines of his prison bars.

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Predator Drone Strikes Increasing, Carrying Out Operations For Pakistan

Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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The Obama Administration has increased the scope of the U.S. government's two drone programs, writes Jane Mayer in an article in the New Yorker. "Acc...

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Subject: Our Marketing Plan

The New Yorker | Ellis Weiner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Interns, The New Yorker, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Twitter, Shouts and Murmurs, Humor, Online Marketing, Publishing, New Yorker, Marketing, Book Promotion, Internet, Authors, Books, Promotion Department, Blogging, Google, Book Blogs, Blogs, Books News

If you already have a blog, make sure you spray-feed your URL in niblets open-face to the skein. We like Reddit bites (they're better than Delicious),...

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Papua New Guinea Tribesmen Step Up Lawsuit Against New Yorker

Forbes.com | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

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"Vengeance Is Ours," by Pulitzer Prize-winning academic Jared Diamond, appeared in the April 21, 2008, issue of The New Yorker. Wemp and co-plaintiff ...

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New Yorker Hires New Senior Editor While Conde Cuts Elsewhere

New York Observer | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

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Nick Trautwein, an editor at Penguin Press, has just been hired as a senior editor at The New Yorker....

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Turning Up the Pressure on the U.S Chamber of Commerce

Josh Nelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, General Electric, Ed Markey, South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, President Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, PNM Resources, Accce, San Jose Chamber of Commerce, Alcoa, Climate Change, Americans With Disabilities Act, New Yorker, Apple, Nike, Kevin Grandia, Adam Green, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, PG&E, Blue America, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Politics, Service Employees International Union, Exelon, CREDO Mobile, Global Warming, Family and Medical Leave Act, Political News, Steven Chu, Efca, Natural Resources Defense Council, Duke Energy, Health Care, Chamber of Commerce, Senator Graham, Frank Knapp, Levi Strauss, Move On, Seiu, Entergy, Psef, Green News
Josh Nelson

Companies should only be members of the Chamber of Commerce if they support hyper-conservative anti-regulatory policies across the board, and aren't afraid to show it.

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Trial by Firefight

Rob Fishman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, David Grann, Time Magazine, Npr, Crosicana Daily Sun, Justice Department, Sam Bassett, Innocence Project, Slate, Msnbc, Executions, Kevin Spacey, New Yorker, Barry Scheck, Sandra Day O'Connor, John Bradley, Walter Cronkite, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Bob Herbert, The Life of David Gale, New York Times, Death Penalty, Rick Perry, Dalia Lithwick, Cameron Todd Willingham, Cameron Todd Willingham Innocent, Media News
Rob Fishman

It's clear that Cameron Todd Willingham was (mis)tried by a kangaroo court, but will justice be better served by the media zoo that's ensued?

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Could We Actually Be Living in A Golden Age of Literacy?

Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: New Yorker, Internet, Philip Roth, Writing, Clive Thompson, Books News
Josh Rosenblatt

Young people are writing more than in any generation before. Like the fella said, you add 140 to 140 to 140 to 140 and pretty soon all those numbers start adding up to something.

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New Yorker Partners With HSBC For Money Issue

Forbes.com | Steve Forbes | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

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Readers of The New Yorker will open the magazine's Oct. 12 money-themed issue and find that the Conde Nast publication has a bit more of the stuff it ...

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Can Conde Nast Cut Costs and Keep the Luster?

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 09.30.2009 | Style

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Andrea Chalupa

When you're in the business of selling life as it should be lived, like in the movies or, say, in the pages of Vanity Fair, then you've got to keep the dream alive, depression 2.0 be damned.

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Willingham Prosecutor's Lack of Doubt Too Extreme

Amy Bach | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

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Amy Bach

As the Willingham case demonstrates, there's a certain kind of behavioral reaction by people who work in courts -- prosecutors especially -- that defends the system over all contrary evidence.

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Emerging GOP Theme: Nullification

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Gop, Bill of Rights, The People, Eighteenth Century, State, Wickard v Filburn, Secession, James Madison, Secede, Democratic, Scotus, Civil War, Perry, Governor, President, John C Calhoun, Republican, Jefferson, Pawlenty, Gonzales v Raich, New Yorker, Federal Government, Bonkers in Georgia, Union, Nullification Crisis, Rick Perry, Virginia Resolution, Kentucky Resolutions, States, State Sovereignty, Hertzberg, Alabama, States Rights, Democrat, Congress, Thomas Jefferson, Texas, 10th Amendment, Democrats, Minnesota, Hendrik Hertzberg, John Calhoun, Tenth Amendment, Nullification, Constitution, Chris Weigant, Madison, South Carolina, Georgia, Tim Pawlenty, Court, Calhoun, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.

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A Stunt Or Not A Stunt? That Is NOT The Question

Colin Beavan | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

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Colin Beavan

Elizabeth Kolbert's using four pages to attack her fellow environmental writers is four pages less that she could have used to convince the public of the dangers of continuing to burn fossil fuel and that we could have a better way of life without it.

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Still Clinging to the Barbarity of the Death Penalty

Byron Williams | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Exoneration, Corsicana, New Yorker, Death Row, Cameron Todd Willingham, Death Penalty Advocates, Death Penalty Debate, David Grann, Death Penalty, Arson, Innocence Project, Barry Scheck, Politics News
Byron Williams

Since it is impossible to avoid error, the only way one can support the death penalty is to suggest that we have expendable portions of society.

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Amelia Lester, 26 Year Old Former Fact Checker, Is New Managing Editor Of The New Yorker

The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 09.27.2009 | Media

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The New Yorker has hired Amelia Lester, most recently an editor at the Paris Review, as their new managing editor. Ms. Lester, 26, a Sydney native ...

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Ryan Grim

How Ted Kennedy Helped Bill Clinton Win Reelection

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

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The New Yorker has unlocked its Kennedy archives and given free access to a number of revealing profiles. One of the fines is also one of the most rec...

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New Yorker: Can A Good Mayor Amass Too Much Power?

Huffington Post | Posted 09.16.2009 | New York

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The latest issue of the New Yorker wonders if, despite being a good mayor, Michael Bloomberg has amassed too much political power, no doubt in large p...

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This Week in Magazines: Two Different Ways of Remembering Michael

James Warren | Posted 09.02.2009 | Media

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James Warren

Adoring Michael Jackson fans, and their many journalistic enablers, will gag over a stinging critique in the Aug. 13 New York Review of Books, a high-brow publication not likely to be found by their beds.

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Kindle Controversy: eBooks in Transition

Giles Slade | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media

Read More: MARK POWEr, New Yorker, Sony, Mike Bezos, Kindle, Npr, NICHOLAS BAKER, Ebooks, Brian Lehrer, Amazon, Ereaders, Media News
Giles Slade

According to the publishing industry, 50% of all books will be sold in eFormat by 2013. People want to know about the changes that are taking place, but don't know where to begin.

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This Week in Magazines: The Bull (Moose) in the Obama China Shop

James Warren | Posted 07.29.2009 | Media

Read More: New Yorker, Joe Mauer, Bean Bags, Mother Jones, Sheila Bair, Mexican Drug War, New York Review of Books, Healthcare, Magazines, Media News
James Warren

Sheila Bair is a Bull Moose in the China shop of the Obama administration's economic team.

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Getting Rich and the Marshmallow

Don McNay | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business

Read More: College Students, Predicting Wealth, Thomas Stanley, Stanford Department of Psychology, Defined Benefit Plans, Discipline, Marshmallow, Main Street, Waylon Jennings, Payday-Loans, Positive Psychology, Fox Business Network, Millionaire Next Door, Stress, Billy Joe Shaver, Small Business Owners, Nursery School, Positive Thinking, New Yorker, Billy-Joe-Shaver, Instant Gratification, Dna, Defined Benefit, 401k, Cincinnati, Stanford University, Lexington KY, Richmond, Fox Business CNBC, Personal Finance, Payday Lending, Msfs, The New Yorker, Dr. Thomas Stanley, Chfc, Cnbc, Millionaires, Pensions, Kentucky, Payday Loans, Don McNay, Ky, Walter Mischel, Credit Cards, Sub-Prime Mortgages, Bing Nursery School, Delayed Gratification, Clu, Structured Settlements, College Student Credit Cards, Adult ADD, Wall Street, Heredity, Sat, Million Dollar Round Table, Genetics, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, Cssc, Chartered LIfe Underwriter, Tax-Anticipation-Loans, Defined-Contribution-Plans, Business News
Don McNay

We have a financial system that has played to people's weaknesses. We have allowed people who are prone to instant gratification to have as much credit as they could get their hands on.

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This Week in Magazines: An Homage to Awful State Legislators

James Warren | Posted 07.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Texas, New Yorker, Nasa, State Senate, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Texas Monthly, Magazines, Media News
James Warren

Citizens across America, especially New York and Illinois, must read the July Texas Monthly so they can be reassured that their state legislators aren't the biggest idiots.

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