A good friend of mine has given me a subscription to the New Yorker for my birthday for the last two or three years and although I never get through reading them all and constantly have a backlog, it's a pretty great gift. I may have to actually read this issue in a timely manner, though.

I have something like 75 back issues of the New Yorker saved on my Kindle. I get to a few pieces each week, then archive each issue with the plan to go back to it at some point. Realistically, this will never, ever happen.

My aunt is the only person I know who manages to keep up with the New Yorker, and she only reads it every other year: For a year she'll read nothing but the New Yorker, cover to cover, every week; then she'll take the next year off from the magazine and read novels instead. Which is one way to keep up, I guess, but I don't think I could do without novels for a whole year.

Don't people interested in those authors, and Wes Anderson films, and Community cut a pretty huge swath of readers at large? I'm wondering what it really means to apply one word ("nerd") to all this.

@geyser: That is a really good point.

I must acquire this magazine. It looks tempting, and I wish to read it.

Check it out--Daniel Clowes drew Heath Huston for the cover! How great would it be to see a new arc of Fear Agent drawn by him?