Articles by C. Max Magee
February 22, 2011
Prime Viewing 0
For any Amazon Prime members out there, Amazon has rolled out a selection of streaming movies and TV shows available for free with your Prime membership.
February 22, 2011
Tuesday New Release Day: Boyle, Marai, Baseball 0
New this week in the fiction aisle are T.C. Boyle’s When the Killing’s Done (our review) and Sandor Marai’s Portraits of a Marriage. Also, baseball fans, the 2011 Prospectus is out today. Bonus Link: You can now subscribe to listings of literary new releases in your feed reader with this RSS feed.
February 21, 2011
The Rooster Crows! 0
Tournament of Books fans: The official Tournament of Books bracket has been posted. Along with an introduction to this year’s literary throwdown, readers can get a gorgeous bracket poster, sure to become the decorative centerpiece of any library wall.
February 18, 2011
TLAN News 1
Three Guys One Book takes an early look at The Late American Novel (co-edited by yours truly and featuring three Millions writers as well as a number of other literary luminaries) and sees it as a great introduction to a whole group of exciting writers. The book has been spotted on shelves in the wild, [...]
February 18, 2011
Recalibrating the Hype Game 0
Three Guys One Book wonders why publishers aren’t more aggressive about drumming up pre-publication hype, instead admonishing media outlets to hold their coverage until after the books are published.
February 15, 2011
Tuesday New Release Day: Evison, Oates, Theroux, Fontane 0
New this week is Jonathan Evison’s West of Here, Joyce Carol Oates’ memoir A Widow’s Story about the death of her husband (this was the source of her recent, quite moving essay in the New Yorker), and the expanded rerelease of Alexander Theroux’s The Strange Case of Edward Gorey. Also new on shelves from NYRB [...]
