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kondro stood there facing towards us with his john lennon style glasses that looked like he had recently been to a high-end designer shop. the glasses had black thin rims as he surveyed his audience with friendly blah blah blah

Too much detail. The New Yorker should produce a tl;dr version like The Economist does (http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2014/11/economist-es...)

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Maybe you're not their target audience? I think the New Yorker is geared toward people who like the process of reading and enjoy when the author paints a picture in their mind. If you just want the tl;dr version, then there's other places to go. I think it's nice that they reach a different kind of audience.

Telling the New Yorker that they should produce TL;DR versions of their work is like telling Thomas Keller that the French Laundry should serve Soylent.

had no idea this existed although i have a subscription, thanks!

Heh... Exactly. Too much "atmosphere". Too much repetition of that "one page on a specific person's story and one page on the systematic social trend this person's story illustrates" is now gone beyond slightly annoying to the point of tediousness. Newyorker is pretty much cartoons and the small one page or less articles for me now. I'll make exceptions for Anthony Lane's movie reviews and occasional longer form articles. And anything with Malcom Gladwell's name just makes me angry at this point.

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