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Title: What magazines do you read?
Post by: A.M. Thomas on December 18, 2008, 04:24:11 PM
I'm looking for good writing/culture/music/film magazines to read or subscribe to, but I have no idea where to start.  I bought the last few issues of Yeti (http://yetipublishing.com/) and liked them.  A friend also recently got me into ANP Quarterly (http://www.rvcaanpq.com/), but I'm really looking for something more substantial.

What do you read?  Is print really dead?

*The idea for this thread came after reading Yesno's post about the psycho dandy (http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,4608.0.html).  The Chap (http://www.thechap.net/) actually looks like it could be an interesting read.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on December 18, 2008, 04:26:34 PM
Harper's

ArtForum (except not really)

BookForum (really)
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Martin on December 18, 2008, 04:34:51 PM
I subscribe to two magazines: Offside and Filter.

They're both Swedish so this post is absolutely useless to you.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: cutout on December 18, 2008, 04:36:17 PM
The Believer has good content -

http://www.believermag.com/
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Emily on December 18, 2008, 04:46:28 PM
All of them!
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: erika on December 18, 2008, 04:52:32 PM
National Geographic and Real Simple.

(Emily is acting like an Alaskan...)
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: snogrog on December 18, 2008, 05:19:11 PM
I used to read Electronic Gaming Monthly. I still get it because somehow my subscription was for like, 5 years, and it's running out in February. I get it, browse through it, realize it's absolute garbage, and put it in a pile in the corner of my room.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: yesno on December 18, 2008, 05:22:34 PM
Resisting.  Urge.  To make.  Obvious.  Joke.


I used to buy anything that looked interesting.  I always return to the Economist, The Wire, New York Review of Books, and general interest science magazines.

I really like the idea of The Week, which just summarizes other magazines.

Now, I just subscribe to a bunch of feeds (good list of magazines with stuff online here: http://www.aldaily.com/#magazines (http://www.aldaily.com/#magazines)) and read random articles that seem interesting based on their headlines.  NetNewsWire and now Instapaper have changed how I read stuff off screens.

aldaily.com (http://aldaily.com), wood's lot (web.ncf.ca/ek867/wood_s_lot.html (http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/wood_s_lot.html)), polymeme.com (http://polymeme.com), 3quarksdaily.com (http://3quarksdaily.com), and givemesomethingtoread.com (http://givemesomethingtoread.com) are pretty good aggregators that have links to more substantial features.   I'm especially glad for the latter 3 because aldaily and wood's lot tend to feature and refeature kinds of articles that their editors approve of ideologically.

I wish I read fewer articles and more books.  
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Emily on December 18, 2008, 05:26:13 PM
National Geographic and Real Simple.

(Emily is acting like an Alaskan...)

Since you're a reader of National Geographic, I'll take your word for it.   


Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: wwwes on December 18, 2008, 05:30:34 PM
Entertainment Weekly
The Atlantic
New Scientist
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Sarah on December 18, 2008, 05:43:38 PM
None of them!
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Jack from Arkansas on December 18, 2008, 06:16:18 PM
Here's what you're gonna want to do; check out the avclub, salon and slate on the internet.  At your newstand try New York magazine, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, The first 12 pages of Harpers, Nut and Volts, Gourmet, Fine Woodworking and The Onion
                             your friend, Jack
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: jbissell on December 18, 2008, 07:24:16 PM
Stop Smiling usually has some interesting interviews but I think they're only quarterly.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: yesno on December 18, 2008, 08:04:08 PM
Also allow me to recommend the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law (http://www.colorado.edu/law/jthtl/).  A fun read, let me tell you.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on December 18, 2008, 09:25:22 PM
Harper's
New Yorker
Entertainment Weekly

Which one of these things does not belong?
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Fido on December 18, 2008, 10:29:58 PM
Wow, pretty highbrow stuff. Except for Entertainment Weekly, but it's all good. God knows I have my own vices too. No, not Vice magazine!

The New Yorker
Smithsonian
Forbes

(I swear I'm gonna kill that one and subscribe to some business magazine that isn't offensive.)
Also: graphic design magazines, which are my Vices

I like to pick up The Atlantic from the newsstand when I travel, which is ridiculous, since it would be more sensible to just subscribe.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Yer Fedge on December 18, 2008, 10:53:38 PM
I like the music mag Big Takeover (http://bigtakeover.com/). They have tons of reviews, which I scour each issue for stuff I haven't heard about. Sure, they're a little bit behind the curve compared to blogs and other online music sites, but they're also less pretentious.

I also subscribe to Tape Op, but mostly because it's free.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on December 19, 2008, 12:17:05 AM
Yeti and Stop Smiling are good magazines -- I like the books Yeti publishes too.  n+1 is also pretty good.

Harper's is the only magazine I read cover-to-cover (except for the Lewis Lapham piece, which seems to have been the same article since 1997, with some minor changes).

I usually flip through The New Yorker, The NYT (both my wife's subscriptions), BOMB, American Theater, and The New York Observer (free subscription).  On rare occasions I've been known to flip through The Atlantic, The Nation, New York, Viorety, EW, The Comics Journal, and Wizard. 
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: joshua on December 19, 2008, 02:38:28 AM
I just have a subscription to Seed. Its sciencey, but not like those popular science, discovery etc. mags.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Gibby on December 19, 2008, 03:37:26 AM
When Saturday Comes (soccer)
Viz (puerile satire)
Private Eye (middlebrow satire)
Sight and Sound (film)

I read most of them at the news-stand in as much time as I have until someone shouts at me.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on December 19, 2008, 10:49:59 AM
i subscribe to death+taxes and readymade.

otherwise, i buy what catches my eye.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Big Plastic Head on December 19, 2008, 12:40:33 PM
National Geo. is a staple for me. I grew up with it. When I went to college we rented a house from a family whose elderly mother had recently moved out of. She was about 80 years old and had been a school teacher. In the house, there were three large cabinets at the top of the stairs and they were filled with nearly every issue from the late thirties to the mid-eighties. I spent countless hours going through the old ones. Some really great stuff.

I subscribe to The Believer as well but that is it as far as subscriptions. If I am traveling I'll grab a Harper's or an Economist from the news stand.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: samir on December 19, 2008, 05:23:42 PM
Private Eye (middlebrow satire)

I'm sad my weekly Hislop fix is about to dry out, since we're getting close to the end of the series of HIGNFY.

And I read Rolling Stone, sometimes.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Dennis on December 19, 2008, 06:30:11 PM
Big Takeover
Harper's
When Saturday Comes
Slam

Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Phantom Hugger on December 19, 2008, 06:33:52 PM
Magazines that I've renewed my subscriptions to....

Skeptic (http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/)
Seed (http://seedmagazine.com/)
Terrorizer (http://www.terrorizer.com/)
Rue Morgue (http://www.rue-morgue.com/index.php)

some of these won't get you too far in life, but it's just my list.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on December 19, 2008, 07:20:03 PM
Oh, yeah, I had a subscription to RS that just wouldn't die (some kind of free offer that kept renewing itself despute my best efforts), and I would read most of each issue, but now that it's finally ended I don't really miss it.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Scot on December 19, 2008, 07:32:59 PM
there have only been a couple of issues, but z gun is pretty terrific.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Beth on December 19, 2008, 08:38:42 PM
Basic stuff

Bitch
Fader
Wire
Wired
The New Yorker


And sometimes I pick up Gothic Beauty in Borders, because I like the fashion spreads. I have a penchant for Renaissance and pinup fashion. Don't judge.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Fido on December 19, 2008, 10:39:02 PM
Oh, yeah, I had a subscription to RS that just wouldn't die (some kind of free offer that kept renewing itself despute my best efforts), and I would read most of each issue, but now that it's finally ended I don't really miss it.

That's what's happened to me with Forbes. It WILL NOT DIE. I'd be less bothered if it were RS.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Regular Joe on December 20, 2008, 01:23:00 AM
I've been reading the same issue of EW for about a month now. I CANNOT PUT IT DOWN!
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: <<<<< on December 20, 2008, 01:55:35 AM
And sometimes I pick up Gothic Beauty in Borders, because I like the fashion spreads. I have a penchant for Renaissance and pinup fashion. Don't judge.

Ever been in it?  I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if you have been.

I was in one of those tattoo magazines once.  A bunny like the one from the cover of White Light from the Mouth of Infinity.  Kind of a weird non-event, that.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: TheBrettster on December 20, 2008, 03:22:21 AM
I have a subscription to Spin, mainly because I' always seem to stumble upon free subscriptions. It's not nearly as bad as you imagine (PFT had a year in review interview article) but some things make you cringe (the interview also featured the guy from Gym Class Heroes) every now and then. It helps if you don't read the reviews.

Besides that, I read Filter, The Believer and whatever looks pretty because I am five years old when it comes to buying magazines.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Joe Rogaine on December 20, 2008, 05:10:30 AM
I'm looking for good writing/culture/music/film magazines to read or subscribe to, but I have no idea where to start.  I bought the last few issues of Yeti (http://yetipublishing.com/) and liked them.  A friend also recently got me into ANP Quarterly (http://www.rvcaanpq.com/), but I'm really looking for something more substantial.

What do you read?  Is print really dead?

*The idea for this thread came after reading Yesno's post about the psycho dandy (http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,4608.0.html).  The Chap (http://www.thechap.net/) actually looks like it could be an interesting read.

I second the Believer recommendation and there is another magazine just like Yeti even has a similar name I just a cant think of it at the moment .
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Martin on December 20, 2008, 06:40:14 AM
I also dig Bust Magazine.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: snoopywaves on December 20, 2008, 01:52:29 PM
I am a magazine junkie. I read most of the music or culture magazines in Ireland, then also Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, Plan B, Skyscraper, sometimes FHM, occasionally Spin or Rolling Stone or Q or Mojo if I'm stuck... I've even been known to read Cosmopolitan if it's put near me.

There's something about being able to absorb well-presented information in chunks the length of one toilet visit. Print is definitely not dead.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Nicksy on December 20, 2008, 04:50:42 PM
Cabinet!! I love it so much. It's the only magazine I read cover-to-cover.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Joe Rogaine on December 20, 2008, 05:47:36 PM
Chunklet

http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=magazine
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: AllisonLeGnome on December 20, 2008, 06:04:42 PM
To be honest, Razorcake is the only magazine I manage to buy consistently (I'm still mourning the loss of Punk Planet), but I always like The New Yorker.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: ShawnFromUtah on December 20, 2008, 07:14:04 PM
Definitely, Punk Planet R.I.P.

Out here in flyover country, we have the (sometimes) excellent Mountain Gazette, which has (until recently) featured some exceptional writing by legendary outdoorsy curmudgeons of the Ed Abbey persuasion. Its feel has been different since it changed ownership recently, but it's still worth checking out for free if you make it out to the Rocky Mtn. states: http://mountaingazette.com/

Other mags worth noting:
Elephant http://www.elephantjournal.com/
Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac http://www.wolverinefarmpublishing.org/pubs.shtml
Arthur http://www.arthurmag.com/
Momentum http://www.momentumplanet.com/

and The Sun is always a treat when I pick up a copy: http://www.thesunmagazine.org/
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Fido on December 20, 2008, 11:10:04 PM
Does anybody read magazines they subscribe to online? Just curious. I sometimes read slate and always read some of the NY Times online, and then I've had my fill of online reading. Wondering what other people's habits are.

Sorry if this is a boring and tedious post. I promise to do better soon. Next week I will be full of pent-up rage and probably much more interesting.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on December 22, 2008, 10:47:58 AM
Oh, yeah, I had a subscription to RS that just wouldn't die...

for YEARS this happened to me.  i subscribed when i was in high school and it followed me into my early twenties.  when it finally croaked, a woman my mother knows started giving me hers, claiming they would stop sending them to her and she doesnt know how her subscription came to be, let alone kill it.  

i now receive a stack of them when she visits.


i read SLATE online, and buy SPIN a la carte.  i used to buy HARP, which i really enjoyed until a few months ago...

(http://www.harpmagazine.com/img/news/HARP_RIP.jpg)
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Sarah on December 22, 2008, 10:55:15 AM
Next week I will be full of pent-up rage and probably much more interesting.

I can't wait to hear you spew.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Nicksy on December 22, 2008, 11:19:28 PM
Does anybody read magazines they subscribe to online?

No. I've thought about subscribing to the NY Times only for the NY Times magazine, though.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: dave from knoxville on December 22, 2008, 11:48:37 PM
Fingerstyle Guitarist
Mojo
Uncut
Paste
Wired
Scientific American
The American Mathematical Monthly (don't judge!)
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on December 23, 2008, 11:28:48 AM
nerd alert.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Keith Whitener on June 10, 2009, 12:38:26 PM
Does anyone read or have any recommendations for lit mags or journals? (Like McSweeneys or Granta)
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Omar on June 10, 2009, 12:46:07 PM
Does anyone read or have any recommendations for lit mags or journals?

Sonora Review (http://sonorareview.wordpress.com/).
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: hugman on June 10, 2009, 01:11:42 PM
Chunklet

http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=magazine


wow. thanks for the link. i had no idea they posted the entire issue online. 
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Bryan on June 10, 2009, 01:13:16 PM
Does anyone read or have any recommendations for lit mags or journals?

Maybe this is too obvious to mention, but I recently started subscribing to the New York Review of Books. It's ultra-establishment, but also very good.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: hugman on June 10, 2009, 08:16:36 PM
Chunklet

http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=magazine


wow. thanks for the link. i had no idea they posted the entire issue online. 

double wow. between the fact that I've matured in the five or so years since the last issue and henry o's horrible calls to the best show, I no longer enjoy this magazine.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Julie on June 10, 2009, 08:36:44 PM
Teen Beat is pretty cool.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Pidgeon on June 10, 2009, 09:08:15 PM
I wish I could find a good magazine to subscribe to, but I usually just end up reading the bass fishing ones at the barber shop.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: colonel panic on June 10, 2009, 09:37:11 PM
New Yorker. It's cheap but good.

Also, TapeOp is free if you like home recording (wondering why I didn't think of this sooner for this forum):

http://tapeop.com/ (http://tapeop.com/)

Some excellent interviews but tons of ads and is hit or miss. I think last issue was Sufjan Stevens.

Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: yesno on June 10, 2009, 11:25:27 PM
I read Booth magazine, which is for the voiceover community. 
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: hugman on June 11, 2009, 01:28:02 AM
Does anyone read or have any recommendations for lit mags or journals? (Like McSweeneys or Granta)

The Missouri Review is a really good, underrated literary journal, and not just cuz I worked there my senior year in college. But mostly cuz of that.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: ben on June 11, 2009, 02:19:01 AM
I like to read Fortean Times, even though it is really expensive.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Julie on June 11, 2009, 11:07:39 AM
Journal of Infectious Diseases, Cosmopolitan, and Time. Wow, but Time is really a great magazine! I love the little graphs they use.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Steeley Chris on June 11, 2009, 07:22:06 PM
When Saturday Comes (soccer)
Wait, this isn't an Undertones fanzine?
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on June 11, 2009, 11:16:35 PM
Does anyone read or have any recommendations for lit mags or journals? (Like McSweeneys or Granta)

Tin House is awesome.  The Paris Review and Conjunctions are also often very good.  n+1 is more commentary than fiction, and Yeti is kinda like WFMU distilled into a journal, but both are great and usually publish at least one story per issue.  And then there's One Story, which is what is sounds like, but usually it's a pretty good story.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: crumbum on June 12, 2009, 07:47:49 AM
Lately I've been trying to get a handle on the conservative mindset so I check out the National Review online. http://www.nationalreview.com/

Also at one time I thought I might qualify as a libertarian (turns out I do not); Reason online is fun to read when it's not totally infuriating. http://www.reason.com/
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on June 12, 2009, 11:59:23 AM
I got suckered in and bought the Colbert-edited issue of Newsweek.  It's a good scam -- Colbert basically writes one or two funny features, and a handful of marginal comments, and the rest of it is just a regular snooze-worthy issue of Newsweek.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: buffcoat on June 12, 2009, 12:02:56 PM
I tried reading "Swank" for the articles, but the pictures disturbed me.  Oh, well.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: nec13 on June 12, 2009, 12:13:50 PM
I tried reading "Swank" for the articles, but the pictures disturbed me.  Oh, well.

Judging from your responses in the politics thread, I think you might also enjoy Commentary.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Julie on June 12, 2009, 12:24:41 PM
I tried reading "Swank" for the articles, but the pictures disturbed me.  Oh, well.

What's that?
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: buffcoat on June 12, 2009, 12:33:15 PM
I tried reading "Swank" for the articles, but the pictures disturbed me.  Oh, well.

Judging from your responses in the politics thread, I think you might also enjoy Commentary.


I've read Commentary.  Here's the description from their website:

"General, yet Jewish. Highly variegated, with a unifying perspective."


I'm surprised at your racism, TRG.  Trying to ghettoize me.  Not that I'm Jewish.


Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: buffcoat on June 12, 2009, 12:34:01 PM
I tried reading "Swank" for the articles, but the pictures disturbed me.  Oh, well.

What's that?



Ha ha ha ha.  Watch out.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: nec13 on June 12, 2009, 12:40:27 PM
I tried reading "Swank" for the articles, but the pictures disturbed me.  Oh, well.

What's that?

It's one of those magazines they put in shrink wrap, so the kids can't read it.

Available behind the counter at finer 7-Elevens across the country.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: buffcoat on June 12, 2009, 02:20:21 PM
I tried reading "Swank" for the articles, but the pictures disturbed me.  Oh, well.

What's that?

It's one of those magazines they put in shrink wrap, so the kids can't read it.

Available behind the counter at finer 7-Elevens across the country.


I think "Car and Driver" has a similar arrangement.
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: crumbum on June 12, 2009, 02:50:10 PM
I tried reading "Swank" for the articles, but the pictures disturbed me.  Oh, well.

What's that?

It's one of those magazines they put in shrink wrap, so the kids can't read it.

Available behind the counter at finer 7-Elevens across the country.


I think "Car and Driver" has a similar arrangement.

You mean 'Car' and 'Driver'?
Title: Re: What magazines do you read?
Post by: Julie on June 12, 2009, 02:52:54 PM
I tried reading "Swank" for the articles, but the pictures disturbed me.  Oh, well.

What's that?

It's one of those magazines they put in shrink wrap, so the kids can't read it.

Available behind the counter at finer 7-Elevens across the country.


I think "Car and Driver" has a similar arrangement.

You mean 'Car' and 'Driver'?

No, he means Car-and-Driver!