What is your favorite magazine?

1. The New Yorker

2. Harper's

3. Lapham's Quarterly

4. Smithsonian

5. Atlantic / Paris Review / Mountain Flyer/Wooden Boat




Defunct: DoubleTake, the greatest magazine there ever was

 

I pay $8.99 per month for the digital version of The New Yorker, that way I can read everything at my own pace and there’s not a stack of unread print copies piled next to my bed creating a fire hazard.

Outside and Men’s Journal are good on occasion from the newsstand. Esquire and GQ make me sick.

 

The Economist

 

Currently read:
Acoustic Guitar
Tape Op

 

I tried over the years to read Esquire, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker... words words words words words words words words, too many fuckin' words. I want to read that many words, I will pick up a book.

 

This is why I heartily recommend Swank.

 

I miss the old titles sometimes - True, Argosy, The Saturday Evening Post.

Here's a favorite from days long gone.

James Baldwin on Sonny Liston, from Nugget.

https://thestacks.deadspin.com/the-fight-patterson-vs-liston-1649083220

 

Agreed.

Also, National Lampoon.

 

That was, in its earlier days, Gawker.

Entire SPY magazine archives are available online (for free) at Google Books by the way.

 

And, to clarify, I’m not necessarily comparing the quality of Gawker to SPY. I’m just saying it was of a similar genre, before it moved toward being a much more broadly focused publication in the quest for page views.