Amazing reading list: The Awl collects the free New Yorker collections

This is going to be a short post, because all I’m going to do is point you to another post. And then when you get to that post you’re going to have more to read than you can get to in a year.

OK, I don’t know you. More to read than I can get to in a year. Yes, let’s talk about me.

As part of a website redesign, the New Yorker has put every story published since 2007 online for free, as well as selections—a lot of selections—from it’s archives, which date to 1925. In the fall, this note from the editors says, the New Yorker will go to a metered paywall.

In the meantime, various and sundry publications have been posting collections of links to the New Yorker stories you must read. And Wednesday the Awl one-upped everybody by collecting the collections:

All The New Yorker Story Roundups You Should Read While The Stories Are Still Unlocked, As Well As All The New Yorker Stories They Link To

I count 231 stories at that link. All kinds of stories: Profiles, fiction, tech, sports, education, food, religion. You name it. In book form, those stories would fill up, what, 15 volumes? Twenty? You remember the advice that gets repeated around here a lot: Read everything. Read, read, read.

Well, why not dig in to a couple million words from the magazine known for nearly a century as home to some of the best writing in American letters?