Articles by C. Max Magee
January 20, 2011
McSweeney’s 2.0 0
Version 2 of McSweeney’s quirky iPhone app includes an ebookstore with custom-designed ebooks. “Whereas most ebooks have weird line breaks, stretched type and clunky fonts, ours are actually designed so they look just as they do in print – clean and beautiful.”
January 20, 2011
Tourney Time! 4
The Morning News has announced the list of judges and, more importantly, the books in contention for the 2011 Tournament of Books. Yours truly is among the judges again this year and very excited for the action to get underway.
January 20, 2011
The Amazon Alphabet: From Audio Books to Zane 6
The ABCs of Amazon: a peek into the reading habits of America and, like it or not, a primer for what’s popular in the world of books.
January 18, 2011
Tuesday New Release Day: Fallon, Brown, Sriracha 0
New this week is a debut collection of loosely linked stories that’s been getting some attention. Military families are the common theme in Siobhan Fallon’s You Know When the Men Are Gone. Another newly released debut is Eleanor Brown’s The Weird Sisters about a Shakespeare scholar’s three daughters, all named after characters from the Bard’s [...]
January 18, 2011
Cursing at Poets 0
At The Collagist, Kyle Beachy imagines the emperor Augustus saying to the poet Horace, “You and your kind are fucked!” “The Extent of Our Decline” is one of number of essays appearing in the collection I co-edited, The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books, coming in March from Soft Skull.
January 12, 2011
Huck Finn, Improved 0
Cartoonist Ruben Bolling has identified some additional ways in which Huck Finn might be cleaned up for today’s delicate readers.
