Articles by C. Max Magee
January 24, 2012
What Improv Can Teach You about Writing Humor 0
Elissa Bassist took an intro improv class and used what she learned to create some rules for writing funny fiction. (Thanks, Rachel)
January 24, 2012
Tuesday New Release Day: Dovlatov, Wolitzer, Moore, Sickels 0
2012 could be the year that we get to know Sergei Dovlatov, and our own Sonya Chung may have played a role. Her 2009 piece on the forgotten Russian humorist helped land one of his stories in PEN America. Soon we started seeing Dovlatov mentioned everywhere, and last year, Counterpoint published The Suitcase, and now [...]
January 21, 2012
2011 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced 2
As we’ve noted in the past, the NBCC seems to do a better job of catching the zeitgeist than other major prizes like the National Book Award and the Booker, which like to play kingmaker by annointing less well known titles.
January 20, 2012
Why Art Matters 0
At the Guardian, Alain de Botton, author of the forthcoming Religion for Atheists, considers whether “museums of art are our new churches” and says “modern museums of art fail to tell people directly why art matters.”
January 20, 2012
A Look Back at the Old Future of Books 0
At Print Magazine, Buzz Poole looks at The Electric Information Age Book, which chronicles the innovative heyday of book packaging, when the publishers “were the ones breaking down the walls and changing the rules as they went.”
January 19, 2012
Nerd Jeopardy Happened and Our Correspondent Was There 0
Presenting the second installment of our Tumblr’s newest feature, #LitBeat, which offers coverage of literary events.
