Articles by C. Max Magee
January 22, 2010
Free Kindles for Big Readers 1
TechCrunch has discovered that Amazon is (essentially) giving away free Kindles to those readers who are in the prime Kindle demographic: readers who order a lot of books each year.
January 21, 2010
In Tablet Battle, Amazon and Apple Could Slight Readers 13
The Apple tablet certainly has the potential to further revolutionize how people consume music, TV, and movies on the go, but the implications for the book, newspaper, and magazine industries are potentially much greater.
January 20, 2010
Monkeys and Donkeys 1
Yann Martel’s anticipated follow-up to Life of Pi, Beatrice and Virgil, now has a cover. Yes, that’s a monkey riding a donkey.
January 19, 2010
Tuesday New Releases 0
Among the books hitting shelves this week are Pulitzer winner and New Yorker staffer Louis Menand’s The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University and memoirist and poet Nick Flynn’s The Ticking is the Bomb. Also new, Melville House is putting out a novella, Union Jack, by Nobel laureate Imre Kertész, [...]
January 19, 2010
Carver and Lish, Revisited 0
On the heels of our recent look at the dynamic between Raymond Carver and Gordon Lish, a close reading of versions of Carver’s stories, with and without Lish’s editorial involvement.
January 12, 2010
After The Wire 0
The first teaser trailer for Treme, The Wire creator David Simon’s new series, has been making its way across the Internet.
