http://www.themillions.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:52:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, we are officially adding a new regular contributor to The Millions. Those of you who have been reading The Millions for the last several months will be familiar with Sonya's writing (collected here). Particularly recommended are Sonya's essay on the complications of choosing a book cover design ... http://www.themillions.com/2009/09/welcome-sonya.html The Millions, at any given time, has ten regular paid contributors and has been host to over a hundred guest contributors, including some of the literary world's leading voices.  With all this going on, we've long felt the great writing here needed a little room to breathe.  With The Millions ... http://www.themillions.com/2009/08/welcome-to-the-new-themillions-com.html Our ambivalence about the Kindle has been on full display of late. Still, when Amazon recently opened up its Kindle blog subscription program to all blogs it seemed worth trying, if only to satiate our curiosity about what it entails.With The Millions freely available for all readers, its hard ... http://www.themillions.com/2009/05/millions-is-now-available-via-kindle_14.html Tonight's installment of the Pacific Standard Fiction Series here in Brooklyn features Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision and Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances. Books will be for sale on-site, and drink specials will be chosen by dartboard. The reading starts at 7 p.m. at Pacific Standard. Hope to see ... http://www.themillions.com/2009/05/tonight-on-4th-avenue_05.html We had great fun on The Millions' NYC Indie Bookstore Tour yesterday. Defying the dire forecast, the weather cleared up after the first stop, and it turned out to be a glorious day for walking and looking at books. We met a lot of great people and visited ... http://www.themillions.com/2009/05/day-after_03.html Despite the weather forecast, we have decided to brave the raindrops and proceed with the bookstore tour as planned today (Sunday's forecast looks worse anyway).We'll see you at Three Lives at 11am.All the details are available in the updated itinerary. http://www.themillions.com/2009/05/millions-bookstore-tour-is-on-for-today_02.html The NYC Walking Tour is this Saturday, May 2nd, and we've got an update to the itinerary and a couple of other notes. First, the itinerary - we have swapped McNally Jackson and Housing Works because Housing Works opens at noon that day. The times listed here are ... http://www.themillions.com/2009/04/updated-itinerary-for-millions-nyc_29.html Tonight's installment of the Pacific Standard Fiction series in Brooklyn is a special "NYFA night," featuring three 2008 fiction fellows of the New York Foundation for the Arts. They are: National Book Award-nominee Christine Schutt, author of All Souls; Guggenheim honoree Paul LaFarge, author of Haussmann, or The Distinction; and ... http://www.themillions.com/2009/04/tonight-on-4th-avenue_07.html We have some exciting news today. I've long pined for the perfect url for The Millions and now we finally have it. From now on, The Millions will reside at www.themillions.com.Long-time readers will know that this is in fact the fourth address that the site has had over ... http://www.themillions.com/2009/04/blog-drop-welcome-to-themillionscom_02.html We're welcoming a new regular contributor to the fold today. Lydia Kiesling has shared her "Modern Library Revue" project with The Millions over the last few weeks, and as of today The Millions will become its new home. As a regular contributor, Lydia will also depart from her ... http://www.themillions.com/2009/03/welcome-lydia_26.html