Articles by C. Max Magee
November 25, 2010
The Notables: 2010 0
This year’s New York Times Notable Books of the Year list is out. Sticking with the fiction exclusively, it appears that we touched upon a few of these books as well.
November 23, 2010
Tuesday New Release Day 0
The New Yorker has collected all the stories from its 20 under 40 series into a single, snappy volume, on sale now. Also out this week is the third volume of Edmund Morris’ biography of Teddy Roosevelt and a new literary foray by comedian Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty.
November 15, 2010
Digging into the 2011 IMPAC Longlist 4
Because of the IMPAC award’s global reach and egalitarian process, it’s always interesting to dig deeper into the longlist.
November 15, 2010
Wiki-zon 0
In a long tradition of online experimentation, Amazon has now started including something called “Shopping-enabled Wikipedia Pages” in its internal search results (see the second result here). Now you can view a copy of Wikipedia pages for authors like David Foster Wallace, J.K. Rowling, Jonathan Franzen, and probably thousands of others. How can Amazon do [...]
November 15, 2010
Jonathan Safran Foer, Cut Up 2
Did you know that a new Jonathan Safran Foer book is coming out this week? We didn’t until we saw a mention of it at Kottke. More surprising is the form of the book itself. Foer has created a new work called Tree of Codes by cutting out sections of one of his favorite books, [...]
November 15, 2010
Introducing ‘The Staff Recommends’ 0
The Millions is excited to be a founding member of a new ad venture called The Staff Recommends, John Warner and Andrew Womack, both of whom are associated with The Morning News and its wonderful Tournament of Books are behind the effort. The Staff Recommends is unique in that it only features books that “pass [...]
