Magazine Writing

The other day I read an article in The New Yorker about boredom in the modern age and in the past, and, ironically, it happened to be the most interesting article I've read in a long time.  I think I enjoy reading magazines most of all out of any sort of publication.  For me, magazine articles provide more in-depth analysis, which is the most interesting part of journalism for me.  Although I think breaking news and snippets of news are very important, magazine articles go more into that investigative journalism that I think is essential and is the place where many intriguing conclusions are drawn.  Thinking critically about issues is necessary, and I see this critical thinking being done a lot in magazine articles.  In my house we never really had newspapers around, but we did always subscribe to Newsweek and Vanity Fair, and throughout high school I got in the habit of reading Newsweek in its entirety every week.  For me Newsweek provided interesting points of view on issues I had never really thought about before, or examined issues in the news, especially having to do with politics.  It was like The New Yorker article: it brought to my attention something I hadn't given much thought to before, which is boredom and how it is actually good and necessary to be bored sometimes.  The article also connected to technology today and how we should find spaces in our lives to be disconnected for a bit.  Not only did it bring something to my attention that I hadn't previously thought about, but also it related to my own life.  Also, it was as readable as it was filled with facts and research.  It was, in short, a great little piece of storytelling.