Please welcome the newest Millions reader: August Hudson Magee, born Monday morning!
Beginnings
R.I.P. Denis Dutton, Founder of A&L Daily
Denis Dutton, founding editor of the esteemed web digest Arts & Letters Daily, passed away today at age 66 after a battle with prostate cancer. We echo the sentiments of Three Quarks Daily that Dutton’s site “set the gold standard that we have aspired to match in our own curating of slightly different intellectual content on the web.”
On Not Reading
“There are writers we instinctively, permanently dislike: not only will we never read them, we will quietly relish the not-reading, finding in it a pleasure that can occasionally rival reading itself.” Dan Piepenbring explores the advantages of not reading for the The Paris Review. Pair with our own Sonya Chung’s essay on the art of not finishing books.
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7x20x21 Recap
If you didn’t make it to BEA this year, first be thankful that you didn’t have to eat any of the food around the Javits Center. Then, check out some of the highlights from the comfort of your desk chair. I recommend Ami Greko and Ryan Chapman’s perennially excellent 7x20x21 panel, which this year featured Nate Silver, Dan Wilbur, and Sheila Heti among others.
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Bringing Salinger To the Big Screen
In Hollywood news, filmmaker Danny Strong – who wrote the screenplays for Lee Daniels’s The Butler and the third and fourth Hunger Games films – is reported to have a “strong interest” in adapting JD Salinger: A Life for the big screen.
Please Be Quiet, Please
Recommended Reading: This essay from The Rumpus on total noise and total silence, touching on everyone from Mikhail Zoshchenko to Don DeLillo.
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Note: it’s never to early to get August a copy of Cloud Atlas.
Congratulations!
August deserves an article, not a curiosity! :)
Congrats again, Max and Lauren.
Agreed. Why is this not a whole post?! Congratulations and welcome to the newest member of the Millions family.
Congratulations Max!
What a beautiful name you and Lauren have chosen. Congratulations, Max!
Lovely news! Congratulations to mother and father!