Follow BookBlips on Twitter
The Millions Latest Blog Posts |
Add as Favorite
Claim Blog 
|
Click on the "vote it up" button to submit a story below to our homepage.
If you're the owner of The Millions, claim your blog to unlock additional tools and reports.
If Carl Jung had lived to see Google Search, he might have had a thing or two to say about how its auto suggest function is revealing the Internet’s collective unconscious. For those who don’t know, auto suggest is a handy feature that helps you search when you don’t know what it is ...
Books
The eagle-eyed Scott Esposito alerts us to a forthcoming 900-page collection of short stories by Stephen Dixon . One hopes Fantagraphics has beefed up its copy-editing department since its last fictional behemoth, Alexander Theroux ’s Laura Warholic .
Books
Naming my favorite book of the year is a lot like naming your favorite child (or in my case, my favorite pet). I enjoyed a vast majority of the 200+ books I finished this year, but one does stand out, Victor LaValle’s novel Big Machine .
Why was Big Machine my favorite book of the ...
Books
We Are Champion , a handsome new online literary magazine promulgating “what Donald Barthelme called “back-broke” sentences,” features an interview with the great Gary Lutz .
Books
Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood is a supreme literary stunt: a short “novel” composed only of questions, each of which seems to implicate the reader in a narrative conspiracy as serious and absurd as his or her own life. Ultimately, Powell’s little book can be ...
Books
Jonathan Franzen
I read Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer — and left it in Illinois for my mother when I was visiting. She suffers from serious dementia, but expressed excitement about this book and wanted to read it. It’s set in 17th-century Poland — during the aftermath of a ...
Books
Tad Williams
Poland
Two thoughtful reactions to Rick Moody’s Twitter short story, from Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy, and from Millions contributor Patrick Brown at the Vroman’s Bookstore blog .
Books
Millions
Now this would be a strange way for an obscure book to become an overnight bestseller. Among The Smoking Gun’s photos of the Tiger Woods crash scene is a shot of a book called Get a Grip on Physics by John Gribbin lying amid the broken glass. Maybe brushing up on physics can help your ...
Books
John Gribbin
On Friday, Christie’s will be auctioning off Cormac McCarthy ’s Olivetti manual typewriter, which he’s had since 1963. Looks like you need to make sure you’ve got at least $15,000 in your checking account if you plan on bidding.
Books
Cormac McCarthy
Boldtype offers up a list of “10 Awesome Books to Give to Your Non-Reading Friends, ” i.e. eye-candy gift books.
Books
Candy
Quite a few books took my head off in 2009 and, as always, The Millions ‘ brief is a tough one to fulfill. I’ve spent much of the year extolling the virtues of Rob Riemen’s slender polemic, Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal , which makes a moving plea for good old ...
Books
Mark Twain
Millions
If you’re a fan of Tom Drury (and if you aren’t–what’s wrong with you?), you’ll be excited to know that the new short film based on his short story “Path Lights” is now online at the David Lynch Foundation. The film was directed by Zachary Sluser , and ...
Books
Tom Clancy
John Hawkes
As usual, my reading has focused on language and history, and I’ve got some recommendations in each field. In language, unfortunately, two of the most exciting books of the year (both from Oxford) are very expensive, but you might want to see if your library has them.
The Oxford History of ...
Books
Stephen King
The new book that dazzled me the most this past year, and that I loved the most, was The Essays of Leonard Michaels . The essays range from meditations on literature ( Shakespeare ), religion (Bible stories), language (metaphor, psychobabble), painting ( Edward Hopper ) and film ( Gilda , ...
Books
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, and we decided it would be ...
Books
Millions
Sarah Vowell , The Wordy Shipmates : Reading a Sarah Vowell book is like getting the coolest, smartest and funniest person in the world to take you on a tour of the kind of places you’d go to if you weren’t held down by a nagging wife, whiny kids, and demanding cats*. Sarah Vowell is like ...
Books
At The Daily Beast , Lizzie Skurnick writes about hip fatherhood, Jonathan Safran Foer and Michael Chabon .
Books
Michael Chabon
Elfriede Jelinek belongs to that select group of writers ( Imre Kertész , Gao Xingjian and Herta Muller would be other recent examples) who remain relatively unknown to the English-language reading public, despite having been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Much of Jelinek’s work has ...
Books
The end of another year (and decade) offers many amusements and diversions, chief among them the inevitable, retrospective lists. We made our own attempt in September, with our Best of the Millennium (So Far) series, which proved to be an instructive and contentious exercise. Among the chief ...
