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Help Wanted: The Millions Needs a Curiosities and Social Media Intern Superstar

gridleyfires wrote 1 week ago:   The Millions has been a must-read blog for me for a long time, and now I notice that their bi … more →

Tags: Books, Current Affairs, History 2, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Books 2, Reading, Reviews

Essay in The Millions

Patrick Wensink wrote 2 weeks ago: The Millions recently published my ode to poets for National Poetry Month: How I Learned to Stop Wor … more →

Tags: National Poetry Month, Poets

Patrick in the Millions

Patrick Wensink wrote 2 weeks ago: The Millions recently published Patrick’s ode to poets for National Poetry Month. How I Learne … more →

Tags: Broken Piano for President, National Poetry Month, Poets

Wednesday It List: Supersized Edition!

The Readist wrote 1 month ago: I found a TON of fun links today.  Enjoy, y’all! ♦ Artistic/Literary Tumblrs rounded up by the … more →

Tags: Lists, Poetry, Jane Austen, book riot, world book night 2013, Grammar, divergent, Veronica Roth, Tumblrs

With Honors: Five Award-Winning Bloomers1 comment

Bloom wrote 1 month ago: By Vicraj Gill In honor of Bloomer Ben Fountain, who won a National Book Critics Circle Award last m … more →

Tags: author features, features, Ben Fountain, billy lynn's long halftime walk, Eliza Lynch, Erika Goldman, Francisco Solano López Carrillo, gordon lish, Harriet Doerr

Tirza

thescientistswife wrote 2 months ago: By Thomas Bouwmeester After The Dinner: A Round Up of Newly Translated Dutch Fiction in The Millions … more →

Tags: Pick of the Week, Sam Garrett, Arnon Grunberg, tirza, open letter, thomas bouwmeester

My Top 10 Literary Websites: 2013 edition!8 comments

Joseph Michael Owens wrote 2 months ago: In 2010, I wrote the most popular post on Category Thirteen, ever. I listed my Top 10 Literary Websi … more →

Tags: Lists, action yes, Art Faccia, Big Other, Bookslut, Cheryl Strayed, contextual life, David Gutowski, dear sugar

‘God, Let Me Be Loved’: The Tragedy of Truman Capote

Bookblurb wrote 2 months ago: By Michael Bourne In all of American letters there is no tale sadder than the biography of Truman Ca … more →

Tags: Authors, Michael Bourne, truman capote, In Cold Blood, Answered prayers, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Esquire, Jack Dunphy, A Beautiful Child

Novelists on First Drafts

rigginsi wrote 2 months ago: There’s a great article up at The Millions in which novelists (including Jennifer Egan and Ann … more →

Tags: amnoveling, Novel, First Drafts, jennifer egan, Ann Patchett

NEW REVIEWS! NEW INTERVIEWS! NEW PODCASTS! NEW BOOK COVERS! #BLOGSintoDREAMS

Salvatore Pane wrote 3 months ago: A LOT OF CRAZY ISH HAS GONE DOWN OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS. 1) Check out this awesome interview I did … more →

Tags: Promotion, Teddy Wayne, Kanye West, Jay Varner, Aubrey Hirsch, Carmelo Anthony, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Braddock Avenue Books

Writers Can't Retire, Can They?

jtsullivan wrote 3 months ago: Nice piece by Bill Morris at The Millions about writers who’ve declared their retirements, sto … more →

Tags: writing, Bill Morris, Essay, Henry Miller

Can Writers Retire? Let Us Count the Ways

Bookblurb wrote 3 months ago: By Bill Morris While living in Durham, N.C., back in the 1980s, I met a guy who was studying creativ … more →

Tags: Authors, j d salinger, roberto bolaño, Bill Morris, Charles McGrath, Alice Munro, Arthur Rimbaud, E. M. Forster, Imre Kertész

Judging Books by Their Covers 2013: U.S. Vs. U.K.

Bookblurb wrote 3 months ago: By C. Max Magee As we’ve done for several years now, we thought it might be fun to compare the U.S. … more →

Tags: Books, C. Max Magee, Covers, Tournament of Books contenders, U.S. Vs. U.K.

Cabinet

theharvardadvocate wrote 3 months ago: In honor of this weekend’s blizzard, we bring you Ralph Waldo Emerson’s take on the nort … more →

Tags: Cabinet, Darwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, snow, NEMO, Rimbaud, Bolaño, Retirement, Liberal

Interview with Scott Dominic Carpenter (This Jealous Earth)2 comments

dj4twinx wrote 3 months ago: -Scott Dominic-Carpenter spoke to Ian Chung- Scott Dominic Carpenter teaches literature and critical … more →

Tags: Interview, short stories, Cathy Day, Chamber Four, ducts, Ian Chung, midwestern gothic, New Rivers Press, prime number

Think of Bread in General: On Making Books Into Movies

Bookblurb wrote 3 months ago:   By Alan Levinovitz When Christopher Tolkien recently broke a 40-year public silence in Le Mon … more →

Tags: Film Adaptations, The Hobbit, lord of the rings, Salman Rushdie, J. R. R. Tolkien, Alan Levinovitz, The Silmarillion, On Fairy-Stories, tree and leaf

Finding an Audience Abroad: Who’s Read in France

Bookblurb wrote 3 months ago: By Anne Korkeakivi Most literary novelists feel relatively confident they can sell copies of their n … more →

Tags: Authors, Cormac Mccarthy, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth, Russell Banks, Anne Korkeakivi, Paul Auster, Douglas Kennedy, laura kasischke

A Calm Place to Think: On Reading the Classics

thebenfarberfoundation wrote 3 months ago: Essay by Guy Patrick Cunningham at The Millions on active reading, and Twitter: The key is to take b … more →

Tags: Books, Books 2, Reading, Gogol, Dead Souls, twitter

The Millions: Great 2013 Book Preview.

cookcanread wrote 4 months ago: I have been holding out on you. I have had this list for at least two weeks and haven’t shared … more →

Tags: Books, Elizabeth Gilbert, Colum McCann, Khaled Hosseini, karen russell


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