Recent Articles
January 25, 2010
Confessions of a Book Pirate 261
by C. Max Magee
“TRC” is a self-described bibliophile who has “pirated” thousands of books. How and why does he do it, and what does he think the publishing industry should do to curb the looming ebook piracy threat?
January 24, 2010
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced 3
by C. Max Magee
The fiction list includes four books by women, three of which have already gotten some award love from the National Book Award and the Booker Prize.
January 22, 2010
Bookless in Laredo 0
by Ben Dooley
As of last week, Laredo, Texas, a city of 250,000 people has no bookstore. A sign of the coming apocalypse or a great business opportunity? You decide.
January 22, 2010
Kafka’s last living friend remembers 0
by Emily St. John Mandel
Alice Herz-Sommer, a 106-year-old Holocaust survivor and the last living person who knew Franz Kafka personally, reminisces about her friend in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: “Kafka was a slightly strange man…”
January 22, 2010
Welcome Emily St. John Mandel! 0
by C. Max Magee
To kick off 2010, we at The Millions are thrilled to announce that Emily St. John Mandel has joined us as a regular contributor. Emily lives in Brooklyn. Her first novel, Last Night In Montreal, was recently published by Unbridled Books; her second novel, The Singer’s Gun, will be published by the same press in [...]
January 22, 2010
Free Kindles for Big Readers 1
by C. Max Magee
TechCrunch has discovered that Amazon is (essentially) giving away free Kindles to those readers who are in the prime Kindle demographic: readers who order a lot of books each year.
