I’d like to welcome another new contributor to The Millions. I worked with Patrick Brown at the book store in Los Angeles for a couple of years, and when I moved to Chicago, he moved to Iowa. Above this post, please enjoy the first of what I hope will be many contributions from Patrick.
The Welcome Wagon
Welcome Ben
As you may have noticed from the review we ran yesterday, there's a new contributor at The Millions. I've known Ben since college, and we've talked about collaborating on projects in the past, so it's good to finally work together on something. Since college Ben has spent a lot of time living in and traveling around Asia, and he's spent a lot of time in Japan. Here's his bio:Ben Dooley is a translator of Japanese and an aspiring novelist. He spends much of his time traveling with his trusty laptop. In his spare time, Ben makes beer, pontificates, and obsessively applies to graduate school programs in obscure subjects of dubious worth.Welcome Ben!
Introducing ‘The Staff Recommends’
The Millions is excited to be a founding member of a new ad venture called The Staff Recommends, John Warner and Andrew Womack, both of whom are associated with The Morning News and its wonderful Tournament of Books are behind the effort. The Staff Recommends is unique in that it only features books that "pass muster" with Warner, the venture's editor and ombudsman. The first selection can be seen at the end of our "Recent Articles" section on The Millions front page and also in the sidebar on article pages. Enjoy!
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A Summer Schedule
Stockbrokers and art gallery owners take off for half the summer. Maybe bloggers should too. Due to my impending wedding (T minus 4 days), and a busy schedule of traveling and moving (for the second time in three months), I will have to cut back on my blogging for the next month and a half or so, at least until we get settled in Chicago. In the meantime, expect approximately one post per week, and also a more relaxed attitude as befits the time of year. You should try it, too, and maybe we'll run into each other among the gallery owners and stockbrokers in the Hamptons, on the Vineyard, or in the South of France.
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Welcome Noah
As you've probably noticed from the new byline attached to the review of Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land that I posted earlier today, we've been joined by a new contributor at The Millions. Noah is an old friend of mine whose book reviews have appeared in a handful of publications, and I'm glad to have him aboard.
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We Have a Winner…
...in the VQR Young Reviewers Contest. Our own Emily Colette Wilkinson was awarded the prize for her review of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale. We'll post a link if and when VQR puts the review online. Congrats Emily!
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The Millions Membership Drive: Update
Our readers are leading a revolution.
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