Articles by C. Max Magee
June 24, 2011
‘But you must read’ 0
Gay Talese’s highly detailed accounting of his daily routine — what he reads, how he works — is fascinating.
June 22, 2011
Poetry After the Windfall 1
The Chicago Tribune looks at Poetry magazine ten years after the tiny publication received an astonishing $200 million donation. How’s the magazine doing? “The answer is complicated.”
June 21, 2011
Hello Byliner 0
Byliner, a sleek new site that features narrative non-fiction from around the web (and for the most part from the usual suspects, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, et al.) has launched. The Nieman Journalism Lab covers the launch.
June 21, 2011
Tuesday New Release Day: Kepler, Block 0
New this week is the latest Scandinavian sensation, The Hypnotist by “Lars Kepler,” who after a literary manhunt, was revealed to be a husband-and-wife team. Also out this week is a new novel by wunderkind Stefan Merrill Block, The Storm at the Door. Bonus Links: You can now subscribe to listings of literary new releases [...]
June 21, 2011
‘The scent is, in a word, newsy’ 0
The New York Times, now available in scented candle form.
June 19, 2011
Hitchens on Mamet 4
It almost sounds too terrifying to be true. Your book is reviewed by Christopher Hitchens in the New York Times Book Review and he opens with: “This is an extraordinarily irritating book” (and it gets worse from there, and deservedly so). It happened to David Mamet and his new book The Secret Knowledge.
