Articles by C. Max Magee
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.)
February 2, 2012
James Franco + n+1 0
It’s time for another literary James Franco sighting. This time he’s popping up in the table of contents for the next issue of n+1.
February 2, 2012
Poet Szymborska Dies 0
The Polish poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska, who contributed to samizdat magazines before the fall of the Iron Curtain, died yesterday. Among her more popular collections is View with a Grain of Sand.
