My mom just cancelled her subscription to the New Yorker. She had subscribed since 1960 and had been a reader since she was about twelve (1942). Her mother had been a reader since it's inception and a subscriber since the close of ww2. The magazine was ever-present in their Lexington Ky. home. Mom would walk down weekly to the news store the day it arrived. The reason for cancellation she explained was that the quality had gone down hill, the cost too high ($69.95 annual) and it had become too thin. Plus the cartoons haven't been funny in years.
Maybe Speigelman ruined the cartoons for her. I like Bek and Bill Haefeli and some of the others but find the cartoons more decipherable then they were 20 years ago, so I assume they have gone downhill.
It was just the general decline in the magazine. She would get further and further behind, the "to read" stack getting increasingly higher with the lack of motivation. She just chucked out 6 months of unread back issues with her pending move back up north. Ree offered her a coupon for a dollar a copy and mom declined. I think it's just over for her.
My partner reads them cover to cover and I read the cartoons in the bathroom. It's a perfect arrangement.
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- bill 9-22-2012 12:11 am
Maybe Speigelman ruined the cartoons for her. I like Bek and Bill Haefeli and some of the others but find the cartoons more decipherable then they were 20 years ago, so I assume they have gone downhill.
- steve 9-22-2012 1:17 am [add a comment]
It was just the general decline in the magazine. She would get further and further behind, the "to read" stack getting increasingly higher with the lack of motivation. She just chucked out 6 months of unread back issues with her pending move back up north. Ree offered her a coupon for a dollar a copy and mom declined. I think it's just over for her.
- bill 9-23-2012 2:43 pm [add a comment]
My partner reads them cover to cover and I read the cartoons in the bathroom. It's a perfect arrangement.
- sally mckay 9-23-2012 4:21 pm [add a comment]