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February 23, 2009
Ask a Book Question: #71 (Non-Fiction for Kids) 4
Betsy recently wrote in with this question: I’m looking for some good non-fiction titles about “People and Places That Interest Us” for a 7th grade reading unit at my school. I plan to introduce Three Cups of Tea and Chasing Lincoln’s Killer. Do you have any other recommendations for page turners that 13 year olds [...]
February 21, 2009
Curiosities: the Department of Dead Horses 0
Tranquility by Attila Bartis is named winner of the inaugural Best Translated Book Award. Scott rounds up some reviews and background on the book. Video: Tom Perrotta on the state of American literary culture. “Art History books are full of errors.” This one is about La Raie Vert [the Green Stripe] from 1905 by Henri [...]
February 15, 2009
Curiosities: No Glamour in Publishing 0
Want to catch up on John Updike in a single summer? Dick Cavett reminisces about the time Updike and John Cheever appeared on his talk show… together. Clancy Martin on his failed attempt to become the world’s largest maker of Fauxbergé eggs and how he evaded the Russian police. Ward Sutton literalizes the idea of [...]
February 8, 2009
Curiosities: Pretend Lunch 1
In Open Letters, Sam Sacks writes “Quietude is godliness in Lark & Termite” and traces Faulkner’s influence on the new book. n+1 on the 10th anniversary of Britney Spears’ “Baby One More Time”: “After her came the deluge: the end of the record industry as we know it, yes, but also the end of America [...]
February 1, 2009
The Millions Top Ten 12
We’ve added a new feature to The Millions sidebar. 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, [...]
January 31, 2009
Curiosities: The Governor and the Glove 0
Hitchens looks back at the Rushdie fatwa and its legacy of censorship. The Feltron 2008 Annual Report “The Governor and the Glove” – an encounter with Blagojovich Joseph O’Neill remembers Updike (via TEV) Ted Leo performs Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark.” The Paleolithic era of online news. TNR reviews Outliers: “It is an axiom [...]
