The Shadow Editors: Hands Off That Rumpus, Dave Eggers! @5:54 PM
Tom Scocca: So because I am a subscriber to the New Yorker, my current issue is still the August 24 issue, which I guess people could buy off newsstands something like 10 days ago.
Choire Sicha: So you have just seen a truly hair-raising thing, I take it!
Tom Scocca: The pages are a little loose in this issue, because I flung it away from me and it hit the wall. I am not a satisfied customer.
Choire Sicha: The McKinsey consultants aren't going to like hearing that.
Tom Scocca: On page 61 of this issue there is a tiny bit of type. A photo credit. The photo credit reads "MATT NETTHEIM / WARNER BROS." READ MORE 51
'Wild Things' Is Good Enough For Maurice Sendak @9:50 AM
While hipsters and Choire are falling all over themselves in anticipation of Spike Jonze's forthcoming Where The Wild Things Are, I have been a little less enthusiastic. I mean, sure, I like Arcade Fire just fine, and the preview had its moments, but there's something about the seemingly obvious ways in which they've opened up the story (oh no, Max is upset about his mom's new boyfriend!) that rub me wrong. That said, this feature with author Maurice Sendak puts me slightly more at ease. I'll give it a shot, I guess. But if Michel Gondry explains the titular character's desire for solitude as an expression of millennial discontent in his forthcoming adaptation of One Was Johnny (starring Viggo Mortensen as the robber) I reserve the right to be pissed off. 2
