Announcements
May 8, 2008
Welcome Kevin 1
by C. Max Magee
Join us in welcoming our newest regular contributor at The Millions: Kevin Hartnett lives in Philadelphia with his fiance Caroline. He works as a community organizer for public education reform and enjoys his days most when they are full of people. He spends his off hours running along the Delaware River, and wafting from cannisters [...]
March 27, 2008
The Millions Reaches a Milestone 6
by C. Max Magee
Though it passed unremarked (I was on vacation), Monday was the five-year anniversary of The Millions. This blog started as something quite inconsequential. At the outset of The Millions, I would have put the chances of me sticking with it through the end of 2003, let alone for five years, at somewhere south of 5%. [...]
March 10, 2008
Millet and Southgate Reading Tomorrow 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
Tomorrow, March 11, at 7 p.m., readers who find themselves in or near Brooklyn are invited to come here two of our “Year in Reading” participants, Lydia Millet and Martha Southgate, read at the Pacific Standard Fiction Series. The series (which I host) was just named “Best New Literary Event” of 2008 by New York [...]
January 2, 2008
Announcing The Millions Book Review Index 1
by C. Max Magee
Over the years, Millions contributors and guests have penned many book reviews for the site. However, this wealth of content has long been buried in the archives. And so, in the spirit of starting off the new year on the right foot, we’ve created The Millions Book Review Index, which lists every review, squib, appreciation, [...]
December 4, 2007
Further Field Guide Fun 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
This Thursday, December 6, Gallery Bar on the Lower East Side will host an opening for A Field Guide to the North American Family: The Exhibition. Co-curated by Mark Batty Publisher and the Humble Arts Foundation, this month-long exhibition will showcase prints of the photographs I selected to illustrate my book. Here’s your chance to [...]
November 29, 2007
The Promotional Train Chugs Along 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
I’ll be reading from A Field Guide to the North American Family this Saturday, as part of New York’s 20th annual Independent and Small Press Book Fair. The Indie Author Read-a-Thon runs from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., and I’ll probably only be reading a couple of short chapters from the book; I can’t recommend [...]
