NP: New Yorker Fiction / Lit Quarterlies

[jd]

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/

I am referring to Matthew Klam's ADINA, ASTRID, CHIPEWEE, JASMINE.

I've only rarely been a fan of any of the fiction that appears in the
New Yorker, so I don't tend to read it, but I was at work on my lunch
break and had run out of things to look at.  This, to me, is pretty
crappy, boring writing.  Am I missing something?

For that matter, does anyone out there recommend a lit mag that not
only focuses on craft, but content as well?  All too often I'll open
up a lit mag and find some undeniably well-worded story that is just
completely empty to my senses as far as content goes.  Like they're
primarily dedicated to writers who are only reading them so that they
can figure out if they should submit there.  Like the actual story
just doesn't matter.  Perhaps my vision is skewed on the issue, I'm
certainly no literature quarterly / whatever else connoisseur, it just
seems like every time I try to give a quarterly a shot I'm generally
disappointed.