Articles by C. Max Magee
February 2, 2011
Judging Books by Their Covers: U.S. Vs. U.K. 48
Book cover design is a strange exercise in which one attempts to distill iconic imagery from hundreds of pages of text.
February 1, 2011
Tuesday New Releases: Russell, Brockmeier, Hale, and More 0
New this week are Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer by Wesley Stace (the pen name of singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding), and buzzed about debut The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale. On the nonfiction side is a new biography, Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise [...]
February 1, 2011
The Millions Top Ten: January 2011 2
Goon Squad! Plus two debuts a long time in coming.
January 28, 2011
TLAN:WOTFOB Excerpted 0
Reif Larsen’s “The Crying of Page 45″ appears in this month’s issue of The Believer. This clever, inventive essay is excerpted from the book I co-edited The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books. You can get a taste of the piece at The Believer website, but the full essay in all its [...]
January 27, 2011
That Was Fast 0
McCain speechwriter Mark Salter has been outed as the “Anonymous” behind the political novel O just two days after the book hit shelves.
January 27, 2011
Late American Novel Fans 0
Word is there have been sightings of the book I co-edited The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books in the wild, though it’s officially due in March. You can keep up on all the news about the book, including events and links to excerpts on the book’s new Facebook page.
