Magazine Meanderings

Readers beware of subscribing to The New Yorker. This legendary anthology of New York culture contrived to provide readers with enormous amounts of information on, not only the city where most of our major magazines originated, but on nearly every potential topic we might ever have contemplated, is a magazine for READERS.

The New Yorker isn't one of those magazines you can flip through at the dentist's office and be done with after a lengthy wait for drilling and filling. The New Yorker is a fantastically focused forum for every eccentricity or idiosyncrasy the mind might wander near. The topics are compelling and ingenious creations from writers who have a knack for captivating readers. The jokes, illustrations and artwork are pleasant embellishments to the bursting contents of this lean, mean magazine. But overall, The New Yorker is a magazine intended for READING.

The contents of The New Yorker are cleverly contrived and ordered to keep circulation concerns to a minimum. The New Yorker's plentiful contents are caring of the select issue's theme, but that topic is generally devoted to sharing every feasible stance with the most eloquent demeanor. Before reading The New Yorker's approach to whatever topic is being probed, I might have believed I had a grasp of the subject matter. There is no doubt, after reading the magazine, though, that my mind will have been given a reassuring measure of fresh ideas and opinions related to the current issue. If you're not someone who actually enjoys digesting the arresting thoughts and feelings pondered by others, you might not find yourself as inspired by The New Yorker's slant on journalism as I have been.

Subjects up for debate within the pages of The New Yorker might include any reasonable, awkward or challenging topic. The attitude of the magazine is impartial to age or gender. And I am living proof that The New Yorker requires no previous New Yorker experience to significantly stir its reader. You really don't need to be a snob to read The New Yorker and enjoy every last morsel of word play between these pages. Since I have never been someone to care for airs other than the air I breathe, that is one of the many reasons I enjoy receiving this magazine so much.

A few of the other reasons I like The New Yorker's flavor combined with my own mind's meanderings when reading are, naturally, the writers who approach their subjects with so much enthusiasm and effort. The New Yorker claims some of the greatest writer's strivings that I might expect to happen upon in any publication. The jumble of articles reach out to the reader who enjoys multifaceted, yawning exposures and adventures into the subject, vast journeys between the lines of inquiring and inspired minds. These writers are creative genius' who resort to their most aggressive prose for penetration with their inclusions inside the binding of The New Yorker.

Along with the magazine's expressive articles, there are quintessence short stories and poems, the notorious jokes and illustrations, strategic suggestions in books, music, dance, art, and any other admiration the editors believe to be notable, with so much more that can't be described nearly as clearly as the magazine itself could reveal.

Subscribing to The New Yorker is one way of experiencing aspects of another's character, culture and contemplation, without ever leaving your hometown. Reading the magazine requires embarking on an alluring journey into fascinating and inviting imaginations and perceptions with only your own hope and humor to guide you. The New Yorker delights and invites me to THINK. And, I think I like this magazine.

Current issues of The New Yorker, with a table of contents and choice articles offered for reading online, can be accessed at www.newyorker.com. The website includes The New Yorker's Blog, subscription information and numerous links for admittance into the distinctive world of The New Yorker.

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