Articles by C. Max Magee
June 8, 2011
Open Letter Goes Digital 0
Literature-in-translation specialists Open Letter have announced a new ebook series for international literature. To celebrate the launch, all the new ebooks are just $4.99 for the month of June.
June 7, 2011
The Times on the New Bolaño 0
Dwight Garner reviews the new collection of Roberto Bolaño nonfiction in The Times. “The odd jobs and left-handed journalism that fill Between Parentheses matter because of the way his novels loom over the past half-century of Latin American fiction.”
June 7, 2011
Tuesday New Release Day: Patchett, Stein, Brandon 0
The big literary new release this week is Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder. Also recently out is Gertrude Stein’s long-lost oddity for children, To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays. New in paperback is John Brandon’s Citrus County. Bonus Links: You can now subscribe to listings of literary new releases in your feed reader [...]
June 5, 2011
New DeLillo 2
Some exciting news for Don DeLillio fans. His first ever collection of short stories is coming out in November, The Angel Esmeralda. The stories were written between 1979 and 2011, and the title story appeared in Esquire in May 1994.
June 3, 2011
Best (and Worst) Book Trailers 1
Melville House announced its Moby Award winners the week for book trailers in a number of serious and silly categories. (Full disclosure: I was a judge)
June 3, 2011
Infinite Jest, Illustrated 0
Poor Yorick Entertainment, a tumblr that attempts to illustrate the world of Infinite Jest.
