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![In this week’s issue, Nick Paumgarten goes inside the world of Grateful Dead “tapeheads,” and looks at the band’s “vast archive of live concert recordings …something intended to be spontaneous and ephemeral [that has] became a curated body of work.” Continue reading.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdquwwTbZl1qav5oho1_500.jpg)
In this week’s issue, Nick Paumgarten goes inside the world of Grateful Dead “tapeheads,” and looks at the band’s “vast archive of live concert recordings …something intended to be spontaneous and ephemeral [that has] became a curated body of work.” Continue reading.
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Voting Scenes from The New Yorker
Over the years, The New Yorker has covered a lot of Election Days. Here are a few of our favorite voting scenes from the magazine’s archives: http://nyr.kr/YTwlqP
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“The Pale King” was Wallace’s final book, the one he kept at for ten years and that defeated him, and everyone looking in these six boxes should prepare herself for Wallace’s pain.Click-through for more from D. T. Max on the recently opened archives of David Foster Wallace’s “Pale King,” and for enlarged images: http://nyr.kr/TMWQiH
(Source: newyorker.com)
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"To ‘package’ her charms irresistibly for a good provider, she preached, a single girl should provide for herself. And that may be Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career."
— Judith Thurman on Helen Gurley Brown, 2009(Source: newyorker.com)
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"How I Survived The Fifties"→
Excerpts from the memoir that Gore Vidal said he wouldn’t write: http://bit.ly/OBn7tu
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The first time London hosted the Olympics, it was as a backup—the Games, originally scheduled to take place in Rome, were relocated to London after Mount Vesuvius erupted. The year was 1908, a bygone era of international competition when tug-of-war and the ten-mile walk were official sports, women competed in floor-length skirts, and it took men a glacial 10.8 seconds to complete the hundred-meter dash. Only at these early stages of the Olympic Games could a runner win the marathon after falling repeatedly and running in the wrong direction (he was later disqualified due to the physical assistance he received from a megaphone-toting man in a boater hat, above). In celebration of the 2012 London Games, here’s a look back at the early days: http://nyr.kr/PEtpv0
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In this week’s issue, David Remnick writes about “the most important political novelist of the twentieth century,” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and his widow’s effort to preserve his archives: http://nyr.kr/JSCXN5
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"Actually, there is no point in having the debt ceiling. The theory is that by establishing a ceiling on the national debt Congress imposes on itself a limit on what it will spend, but in practice it works the other way around: Congress enacts the spending legislation and then raises the debt ceiling to pay for it."
