"The thing I’d been turning over in my head was theatre"

[rymenhild]

I subscribed to the New Yorker recently, as I'd been running out of free accesses regularly and the introductory subscription price was ridiculously cheap with a .edu email address. One of the advantages (or disadvantages, depending on how much work I should be doing instead of reading articles) is that the New Yorker sends me emails with links to

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[tx_cronopio]

I will read that, thanks! I have several issues stacked up.

Now, here's a tip, I don't know if it still works, but after your deal expires?

You can get 12 weeks on Amazon for an absurdly cheap price. And then they'll ask you to renew at the regular price. If you ignore them, about a month later, you'll get an offer to renew at the absurdly cheap price.

And yes, I'd love to support print journalism, but I cannot afford the New Yorker at its regular rates right now, so just passing that along.

[whatifoundthere]

Oh MAN thank you for turning me on to this. The only other thing of Elif Batuman's that I've read is this magnificent piece about a Leo Tolstoy conference. There's not much to it, content-wise -- it's a character study of the kinds of people who love Tolstoy, I guess, told from the perspective of a graduate student whose luggage was lost and who therefore has to spend the entire week in track pants -- but the observations are so keen and the turns of phrase are so gorgeous that I remembered her name and am excited to read anything else of hers.