Articles by Editor
June 7, 2009
Curiosities: Seekers, Idiots, Grazers, Browsers, Campers, Independents, Time-Sucks 2
Lots of action with the online mags: There’s a new issue of The Hipster Book Club, with a review of Aleksander Hemon’s Love and Other Obstacles, and an interview with Glen David Gold. There’s a new Quarterly Conversation, which includes Scott Esposito’s thoughtful consideration of Cormac McCarthy. Issue 3 of N1BR is out. And the [...]
June 1, 2009
The Millions Top Ten: May 2009 0
We spend plenty of time here on The Millions telling all of you what we’ve been reading, but we are also quite interested in hearing about what you’ve been reading. By looking at our Amazon stats, we can see what books Millions readers have been buying, and we decided it would be fun to use [...]
May 31, 2009
Curiosities: Busking for Vampires 0
Our friend “Tom” finds that music soothes the savage vampire. Joseph O’Neill explores the “wholesome… misanthropy” of Flannery O’Connor. The Nation offers up a depressing assessment of the book business: “It is a confused, confusing and very fluid situation, and no one can predict how books and readers will survive.” “Why Donald Duck Is the [...]
May 25, 2009
Curiosities: Three Feet of Paper 0
Conversational Reading covers “Four Greek Writers That You Should (and Can) Read.” Wells Tower interviewed on The Dinner Party Download. Anne Trubek at Good Magazine recommends our site to “Post-Collegiate Literary Types” The Elegant Variation gets a new reader. Congratulations, Mark! Make of this what you will: “Popular Japanese horror writer Koji Suzuki will publish [...]
May 21, 2009
Ask a Book Question: #72 (Books on the Silver Screen) 10
Kathy wrote in with this question: Our book club is focusing on books made into movies. We read fiction, no murder mysteries. I would like to keep either the book or the movie fairly current. Beloved is as far back as I would like to go. I thought about Wonder Boys and then heard The [...]
May 11, 2009
The Millions Quiz: Subscriptions We Can’t Go Without 3
So that you may get to know us better, it’s The Millions Quiz, yet another occasionally appearing series. Here, as conceived of by our contributor Emily, we answer questions about our reading habits and interests, the small details of life that like-minded folks may find illuminating, and we ask you to join us by providing [...]