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The Millions Top Ten: May 2012
by C. Max Magee
A Millions favorite debuts on the list, and big changes are afoot next month.
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A Note on the Paper: An Encomium to Larry
by Jeremy Blachman
The tree that became this particular book was a 37-year-old spruce, tall and sturdy, by the name of Larry. Larry was a happy tree, home to children who enjoyed swinging from a tire attached via rope to one of his lower branches. The marks from the rope can be witnessed in the upper left-hand corners of pages 134 and 136.
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Miles to Go: Notes on Marathon Reading 5
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In what was surely one of the most fun experiments of all time, a team of Irish scientists have finally figured out why Guinness stout bubbles fall instead of rise.
0~Nick MoranGZA has teamed up with top cosmologists and physicists from MIT and Cornell to produce his latest album, Dark Matter. The album is the first in a series “designed to get a wide audience hooked on science.”
0~Nick MoranRead Russia 2012 aims to celebrate contemporary Russian literature and book culture, and they’ve scheduled a bunch of events in the NYC area to coincide with next week’s BEA. You should certainly check them out, as well as NYRB Classics’ ongoing coverage of their own Russian literature highlights. (You can get even more information over here, too.)
0~Nick MoranOver at Litreactor, Joshua Chaplinsky checks in with Two Dollar Radio, the publishing outfit responsible for Grace Krilanovich’s The Orange Eats Creeps, which was one of my Year In Reading selections last year.
0~Nick MoranI’ve mentioned my love for the movie recommendation site Netflixia before, but if you find its selection a little predictable or tame, you should give try out some of the titles on Christopher Higgs’ list of “The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Instant.” (Note: some of the list’s images might be a bit racy for work.)
0~Nick MoranThe world’s great literature as comics and visuals. Though, as Steven Heller points out in The Atlantic, defining the canon is a contentious task, comics or no.
0~Emily M. KeelerIn this week’s London Review of Books Elif Batuman has a great piece about Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence, both the book and the place. It would pair well with our own Lydia Kiesling’s award-winning essay on the book from 2010.
0~Emily M. KeelerLaura Miller pokes some holes in that Dartmouth study about how little classic literature appears to be influencing contemporary writers.
0~Emily M. KeelerZadie Smith reading Frank O’Hara’s “Animals,” by way of the Chicago based ad and design agency, Coudal Partners, and their voice mail based poetry project, Verse by Voice.
0~Emily M. KeelerGood news: There’s a new Alice Munro collection coming this fall.
0~C. Max MageeThe latest project from King’s Speech director Tom Hopper will be a big-screen version of Les Misérables, starring Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean and Russell Crowe as Javert. You can check out the trailer over here.
0~Nick MoranJulia Heaberlin, whose novel Playing Dead published this week, discusses the not-so-pretty truths of writing, rejection, and perseverance.
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Read More The Millions Top 10 May 2012
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Pulphead John Jeremiah Sullivan
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The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains Nicholas Carr
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Train Dreams Denis Johnson
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Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
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How to Sharpen Pencils David Rees
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New American Haggadah Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Stephen Greenblatt
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Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a New Visual Language R. Klanten, S. Ehmann and F. Schulze























































