Articles by C. Max Magee
May 26, 2011
How 3d Projectors Make 2d Movies Worse 0
Roger Ebert explains how the time-consuming process of changing the lenses on complicated new 3d projectors is diminishing the theater-going experience.
May 26, 2011
Why is historical fiction maligned? 0
In The Morning News, Jessica Francis Kane asks where is the line drawn between literary fiction and historical fiction; why is historical fiction maligned; and what happens when you write a novel and one of the characters attends your reading?
May 25, 2011
More Kindle ‘Offers’ 1
Amazon has introduced another ad-infused Kindle ‘with Special Offers.’ You can now get the 3G model, regularly $189, for $164, if you opt for a version that displays Amazon promotions on the home screen and screensaver.
May 24, 2011
Indie Booksellers’ Choice Awards 0
Our own Emily St. John Mandel won one of the inaugural Indie Booksellers’ Choice Awards yesterday for her novel The Singer’s Gun. The other honorees for this award, which was voted on by indie booksellers around the country, were Paolo Bacigalupi for The Windup Girl, Adam Levin for The Instructions, Karl Marlantes for Matterhorn, and [...]
May 24, 2011
Tuesday New Release Day: Hadley, ESPN, Gladstone 0
New Yorker darling Tessa Hadley has a new novel out this week, The London Train. Also out is the controversial oral history of ESPN, Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN, which reportedly offers up ample doses of insider gossip and bad behavior. And finally, there’s The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone [...]
May 23, 2011
Exclusive: The First Lines of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot 14
A bookish first paragraph kicks off this new novel set to come out in October.
