http://www.themillions.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:14:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may have heard that Glenn Beck, sower of anxiety about Obamanomics, is also a shill for gold coin dealer Goldline. But here's a conspiracy theory for you: Does Glenn Beck also have a stake in the modish French theoretical organ Semiotext(e)? The truth is out there, people. http://www.themillions.com/2010/03/strange-bedfellows-department-glenn-beck-and-the-french-insurrectionists.html Penguin is putting out snazzy, mesmerizing, jacket-less hardcover editions of a number of classics. These remind of the old books on my parents' shelves. You won't be able to get your hands on these for a few months though. http://www.themillions.com/2010/03/hardcover-beauties.html At The Morning News, a wide-ranging conversation with the writer Philip Graham, most recently the author of The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon. Included is his account of getting a story into the New Yorker off the slush pile, and a footnote touting The Millions and other ... http://www.themillions.com/2010/03/philip-graham-in-conversation.html The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven and translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu has won the 2010 Best Translated Book Award. Previously: The shortlist. http://www.themillions.com/2010/03/best-translated-book-2010.html Congratulations to Millions contributor Lydia Kiesling whose thoughtful essay "Proust’s Arabesk: The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk" was named a finalist for the 3quarksdaily Arts & Literature Prize. And thanks to all the Millions readers who voted for our essays in the first round of the contest. http://www.themillions.com/2010/03/congrats-lydia.html The Second Pass marks its first anniversary with a bunch of writers championing their favorite out-of-print books. Happy Anniversary! (For more out-of-print recommendations see our collection of gems from last year.) http://www.themillions.com/2010/03/a-first-for-the-second-pass.html The New Yorker gives us a glimpse of the David Foster Wallace papers just sold to the Harry Ransom Center, including the youthful "Viking Poem." http://www.themillions.com/2010/03/dfw-viking-enthusiast.html We've been tracking excerpts from Michael Lewis' just-released The Big Short for a while now; the latest, fascinating installment is at Vanity Fair. http://www.themillions.com/2010/03/betting-on-the-blind-side.html The Guardian offers a long, worthwhile profile of Dave Eggers, who suddenly is being considered and reconsidered seemingly everywhere. "The McSweeney's empire... often gets characterised as a kind of cabal: a hip, young gang. [Eggers] and [wife Vendela] Vida, whose writerly circle includes Nick Hornby, Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem ... http://www.themillions.com/2010/03/the-ongoing-reconsideration-of-dave-eggers.html Hyphen Magazine/Asian American Writers' Workshop are co-sponsoring a short story contest, judged by Alexander Chee and Jaed Coffin.  $1,000 prize and publication in Hyphen, open to all U.S. and Canadian writers of Asian descent.  Details here. http://www.themillions.com/2010/03/asian-american-short-story-contest.html