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 Magazine, and this latest installment should be outstanding. Hope to see you there. (Pacific Standard is located at 82 4th Avenue in Brooklyn, between Bergen St. and St. Mark’s Place, convenient to most trains).
Millet and Southgate Reading Tomorrow
Help Wanted! The Millions Seeks an Intern CLOSED
Thanks for all the interest! This listing is now closed.
The Millions back office is looking for some help. With the site growing, we've decided that we could use a book-loving young person to give us a hand with various editing and production tasks. In return for a very modest time commitment, our intern will also join a great group of creative thinkers and have the opportunity to get their work edited by the working writers among us and potentially see their pieces published at The Millions. As is the case with our crew of regulars, our intern will be compensated for the pieces he or she publishes on the site.
Here's what we're looking for:
A voracious reader - Our ideal candidate will be well-read and have a solid knowledge of contemporary fiction.
A copy editing ninja - Our intern is going to have the opportunity to copy edit all our stuff, so whoever signs on needs to be good at it.
A blogger - Ideally, our intern will have tried blogging in the past and will be familiar and comfortable with the medium. Experience with Wordpress is a huge bonus.
The "Always-on" type - We're going to need to be able to email our intern with editing tasks that need to be completed on (reasonably) short notice. If you only check email twice a week, this isn't going to work. Furthermore, if you are adept at finding cool literary stuff online on a daily basis, all the better.
More details: This isn't going to be anything close to a full-time gig. We're thinking 5-10 hours a week realistically, plus as much time as you want to spend writing for us. We think the internship would be a great fit for a college or grad student, but are certainly open to hearing from non-students whose schedules will allow them to do this. We're looking for a one-year commitment, though we can be flexible on the duration.
Cash money: Long-form pieces written by the intern for the site and approved for publication will be compensated using the same system we use to compensate our regular writers. And there will most probably be some free books here and there.
Why should you do this? The Millions is read by upwards of 20,000 people every week. Our readership is a laundry list of influential, brilliant folks in the publishing and media industries as well as in academia, not to mention the most engaged, avid readers of literary work that you'll find anywhere. Aside from learning about how a site like The Millions operates, you'll have an opportunity to write for all these people.
Where do I sign up? If you are interested in The Millions internship, please send an email to [email protected] telling us about yourself and any blogging and copy editing experience you have as well as up to three samples of original writing you've done that you think would be a good fit for The Millions. (These can be attachments or links to elsewhere online.)
We look forward to hearing from you!
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Fiction Writing Class in Los Angeles
I've got a great opportunity for any aspiring writers in Los Angeles. My good friend Edan Lepucki, an excellent writer and teacher (see her bio below) has decided to start her own fiction writing course. Edan and I met when we worked together at Book Soup in Los Angeles. While there we both led a book club, and her teaching chops were evident from the very start. Our book club members all became big Edan fans. Anyway, if you're interested, email Edan. This is definitely a worthwhile opportunity. Here are the details:Class Description and Information:This fiction writing course is open to anyone who adores, fears, and/or is challenged by the English language and narrative craft. Each week, we will meet at my apartment in Los Feliz to hone our skills as storytellers, discussing published work as well as the work of our peers. There will be in-class and out-of-class writing exercises, each one designed to tackle a different element of craft, including but not limited to: characterization, point of view, scene, setting, and voice. Light refreshments will be served.Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 pmSeptember 14th to October 26thMaximum enrollment: 9 studentsFee: $295 (plus the purchase of Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, $18.00)--various payment plans available...Instructor Bio:Edan Lepucki is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she won the Richard Yates Short Story Contest and taught classes in both literature and creative writing. Her work has been published by, or is forthcoming from, Meridian, Filthy, and West, the Los Angeles Times' Sunday magazine. Last summer she was a fiction fellow at the Vermont Studio Center. She likes Paris, dogs, and filling out forms.If interested, please email Edan at [email protected]
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The Day After
We had great fun on The Millions' NYC Indie Bookstore Tour yesterday. Defying the dire forecast, the weather cleared up after the first stop, and it turned out to be a glorious day for walking and looking at books. We met a lot of great people and visited some very cool bookstores. The early consensus is that we'll definitely be doing this again. And here's just a selection of some of the many, many great books that got picked up by the group yesterday.Other highlights included a sun-drenched walk across the crowded Brooklyn Bridge and a surprise marriage proposal at our final stop.If you were along with us on the tour and have pictures or writeups to share, let us know so we can link to them.
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Your Destiny and Ours: How Readers of The Millions Are Changing Our Story
We can now see how our readers might one day insulate us from the forces being unleashed by massive companies. But we aren't there yet.
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Summer hours
As late summer sets in, I find myself lazy, distracted. Like the stockbrokers and lawmakers who spend August relaxing or taking their "recess," I, too, will be taking it easy. Expect posting to be lighter than usual in the coming weeks, and try to take things slow, if you can.
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Help Wanted: The Millions Needs a Curiosities, Twitter, and Facebook Superstar
The Millions back office is looking for some help again. The site continues to grow, and that means we have an opportunity to add another book-loving young person to our team.
We are looking for someone who can help us with a few specific things. The new Millions intern will helm our "Curiosities" link blog and will man (or wo-man) our Twitter feed and Facebook page. Through those avenues, the intern we seek will have an audience of tens of thousands and will be introducing The Millions to new readers every day.
In return for a very modest time commitment, our intern will also join a great group of creative thinkers and have the opportunity to get their work edited by the working writers among us and potentially see their pieces published at The Millions. As is the case with our crew of regulars, our intern will be compensated for the pieces he or she publishes on the site.
The Details:
Responsibilities:
Multiple daily posts to the "Curiosities" link blog
Taking charge of The Millions Twitter account
Taking charge of The Millions Facebook page
Coming up with new ideas for fun ways to utilize the above
Here's what we're looking for:
A voracious reader - Our ideal candidate will be well-read and have a solid knowledge of contemporary fiction.
A social media superstar - Again, Twitter, Facebook, (Tumblr, blogging, etc.)
Experience with Wordpress is a huge bonus.
More details: This isn't going to be anything close to a full-time gig. We're thinking 5-10 hours a week realistically, plus as much time as you want to spend writing for us. We think the internship would be a great fit for a college or grad student, but are certainly open to hearing from non-students whose schedules will allow them to do this. We're looking for a one-year commitment, though we can be flexible on the duration. The Millions has no dedicated office, so this is a remote position and can be done from anywhere in the world.
The position is unpaid, but any long-form pieces written that you write for the site and are approved for publication will be compensated using the same system we use to compensate our regular writers. And there will most probably be some free books here and there.
Why should you do this? The Millions is read by upwards of 30,000 people every week. Our readership is a laundry list of influential, brilliant folks in the publishing and media industries as well as in academia, not to mention the most engaged, avid readers of literary work that you'll find anywhere. Aside from learning about how a site like The Millions operates, you'll have an opportunity to write for all these people, and you'll get experience running a Twitter account with nearly 30,000 followers.
How to Apply:
Please send the following to [email protected]
A resume
Three sample Curiosities, using the format we use on the site
If applicable and you are willing to share, we'd be interested in seeing the Twitter account(s) you use and any Facebook fan pages you've had the opportunity to run for schools, publications, companies, etc. (Essentially, show us that you have experience using these, even if it's just your own sparsely followed, but very entertaining Twitter account.)
In addition, show us the other cool stuff you are responsible for online, your Tumblr, your blog, etc.
The deadline is one week from today: 6/27.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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Welcome to the New themillions.com
We've long felt the great writing here needed a little room to breathe.
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