Last night, I picked up the New Yorker at Barnes & Noble because I love the cover Adrian Tomine did for the new issue. I'm all about supporting brick and mortar stores, especially since I manage one. I'm not an internet shopper... I require at least some human interaction when I wish to shop and the instant gratification of leaving a store with an item I want, even if I had to special order it from the store itself.
Everybody's different though... just my own preference here...
In addition to that swell cover, I enjoyed this Summer Fiction Issue quite a bit. My favourite features being the previously unpublished Vladimir Nabokov short story, "Natasha", and critic, Sasha Frere-Jones' write up about Auto-Tune and how it has transformed what we are hear today in pop music vocals versus the reality of a singer's natural vocal quality.
