Magazines
Magazines are stupid cheap. You can subscribe for $1 - $2 an issue. The Sunday Times costs like $7 near my house. Newstand magazines are $5 - $7.
Although there is always tons of content for the thieving, there is very little that you can buy for $1 - $2 anymore, digital or physical. Unread magazines are more decorative than unread newspapers, so you feel less guilty about letting them pile up without reading them. You should just go to Amazon right now and treat yourself to a magazine subscription, it will be money well spent.
Without further adieu, some words about magazines I spend time with:
A beautiful reminder of my confidence in my own masculinity.
The publication of record for hipsters. Save yourself the trouble of finding it in cool boutiques on the Lower East Side, freeing yourself to move to the West Coast, by just subscribing on Amazon.
Primary sources, presented beautifully. Insane production value, perfect-bound perfection. Mixes contemporary with historical in a timeless way. (Don’t mean that as an empty phrase, Kanye West mixes contemporary with historical in a non-timeless way.)
The New York Review of Books meets Vice? I don’t know, I don’t actually read it. I am pretty impressed with myself just seeing it around the apartment. I imagine others would react similarly.
I keep it real with you, dear reader.
Of course! Tech potpourri with as much attention to design/layout as the words themselves.
Breathless, huckster headlines, sometimes good articles. Relevant enough if you work at startups. I feel like the same impulse which compels people to buy fitness magazines compels people to buy magazines like this. Its the fantasy of passive progress towards achievement. Instead of reading this for an hour, you’d be better off reading technical documentation (even if you’re not technical) for 15 minutes and then reading US Weekly for the remaining 45 minutes. But narratives are good for what they’re good for, I guess, providing an alternate frame for whatever you’re experiencing.
Similar. But sometimes the articles are great, like the Evernote article in this issue. The spirit of the article directly contradicts the headline “How It Got Great Fast” but I guess you gotta sell….
Any good magazine recommendations?
