Articles by C. Max Magee
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.
June 3, 2011
George Plimpton’s Video Falconry 0
A video game for the weekend: George Plimpton’s Video Falconry. Backstory. via @youngamerican
June 3, 2011
The Virtues of Boring 0
Mark O’Connell’s recent essay in these pages discussed how long, challenging novels can hold you captive (in both the good and bad senses of that phrase). Now, in the Times, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott come to the defense of “the slow and the boring” in film, responding Dan Kois’s Times Magazine piece confessing he’s [...]
June 3, 2011
Tweeting for Posterity 0
You too can be in the Library of Congress. O’Reilly Radar checks in on the LoC’s efforts to build a Twitter archive.
