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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: A.M. Thomas on December 18, 2008, 04:24:11 PM
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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.
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Harper's
ArtForum (except not really)
BookForum (really)
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I subscribe to two magazines: Offside and Filter.
They're both Swedish so this post is absolutely useless to you.
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The Believer has good content -
http://www.believermag.com/
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All of them!
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National Geographic and Real Simple.
(Emily is acting like an Alaskan...)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Entertainment Weekly
The Atlantic
New Scientist
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None of them!
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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
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Stop Smiling usually has some interesting interviews but I think they're only quarterly.
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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.
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Harper's
New Yorker
Entertainment Weekly
Which one of these things does not belong?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I just have a subscription to Seed. Its sciencey, but not like those popular science, discovery etc. mags.
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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.
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i subscribe to death+taxes and readymade.
otherwise, i buy what catches my eye.
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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.
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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.
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Big Takeover
Harper's
When Saturday Comes
Slam
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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.
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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.
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there have only been a couple of issues, but z gun is pretty terrific.
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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.
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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.
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I've been reading the same issue of EW for about a month now. I CANNOT PUT IT DOWN!
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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I also dig Bust Magazine.
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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.
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Cabinet!! I love it so much. It's the only magazine I read cover-to-cover.
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Chunklet
http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=magazine
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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.
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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/
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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.
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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)
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Next week I will be full of pent-up rage and probably much more interesting.
I can't wait to hear you spew.
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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.
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Fingerstyle Guitarist
Mojo
Uncut
Paste
Wired
Scientific American
The American Mathematical Monthly (don't judge!)
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nerd alert.
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Does anyone read or have any recommendations for lit mags or journals? (Like McSweeneys or Granta)
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Does anyone read or have any recommendations for lit mags or journals?
Sonora Review (http://sonorareview.wordpress.com/).
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Chunklet
http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=magazine
wow. thanks for the link. i had no idea they posted the entire issue online.
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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.
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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.
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Teen Beat is pretty cool.
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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.
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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.
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I read Booth magazine, which is for the voiceover community.
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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.
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I like to read Fortean Times, even though it is really expensive.
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Journal of Infectious Diseases, Cosmopolitan, and Time. Wow, but Time is really a great magazine! I love the little graphs they use.
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When Saturday Comes (soccer)
Wait, this isn't an Undertones fanzine?
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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.
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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/
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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.
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I tried reading "Swank" for the articles, but the pictures disturbed me. Oh, well.
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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.
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I tried reading "Swank" for the articles, but the pictures disturbed me. Oh, well.
What's that?
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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.
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I tried reading "Swank" for the articles, but the pictures disturbed me. Oh, well.
What's that?
Ha ha ha ha. Watch out.
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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.
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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.
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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'?
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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!