Articles by C. Max Magee
February 3, 2012
Dyer on Unusual Histories 0
Ahead of the forthcoming release of Zona, Geoff Dyer rounds up five unusual histories for The Browser.
February 3, 2012
The Story Behind the Letter 0
Letters of Note posted an incredible letter from a former slave, and Kottke rounded up some more info he and others uncovered about the letter writer.
February 3, 2012
Touré Calls The Help Loathsome 0
Touré says watching The Help was like visual waterboarding.
February 3, 2012
The Working World 0
The media world is abuzz about a former Harper’s Bazaar intern suing parent company Hearst for allegedly violating labor laws for not paying her (With reactions ranging from “She’ll never work in this town again.” to “Good for her. It’s about time!”). At least she didn’t get sucked into HuffPo’s aggregation turbine.
February 2, 2012
DeLillo and Trance States 0
Charles Baxter notes, “If you have read several books by Don DeLillo, sooner or later you will have a Don DeLillo moment.” For Baxter, these are often “trance states,” of which DeLillo’s newest collection, The Angel Esmeralda, contains many.
February 2, 2012
Bad Review Bingo 0
Print out your playing cards and start sifting through the comment sections of negative book reviews. It’s a new game called “bad review bingo.” (inspired in part by the frothy commenters to our own Janet Potter’s blistering review of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy.)
