Please welcome the newest Millions reader: August Hudson Magee, born Monday morning!
Beginnings
“Elbowing, nudge-nudge, wink-winking”
Recommended Listening: Alissa Nutting discussing her new novel on Brad Listi’s Other People Podcast.
Reading Proust
For the Atlantic, Sarah Boxer recounts her experience reading In Search of Lost Time on her cell phone. Pair with Hannah Gersen’s year of reading Proust.
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A New Whodunit
“They were town men. The sheriff and the other four went into his shack. One of them was Hines, the undertaker. They were in there for some time. They even opened the stove and dug through the ashes.” Stephen King has a story in this week’s New Yorker.
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Kindred
The new novel by Colm Tóibín draws largely from the author’s memories of his father passing away when he was young. In a Guardian essay, the author writes about his discovery that literature can be a vessel for grief, with a nod to the writer and Dublin mainstay Mary Lavin. If you’d like to learn more about Tóibín's fiction, you can read our pieces on his books.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Grossman, Baker, Dyer, Pierre, Wilson, Mukherjee, Grossman
In a big week for new releases, we have Lev Grossman's The Magician King, the sequel to his blockbuster debut The Magicians; Nicholson Baker's House of Holes, reviewed here today; another new Geoff Dyer book, The Missing of the Somme; DBC Pierre's Lights Out in Wonderland; and Kevin Wilson's debut novel The Family Fang (which one blurber calls The Royal Tenenbaums meets Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf). Four of the five books above, incidentally, were featured in our big second-half preview. And out in a paperback this week are a pair of award winners: Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies and David Grossman's To the End of the Land.
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The State of Literature in Translation Today
Chad Post ran the numbers to calculate “the state of literature in translation today,” and in so doing he found that AmazonCrossing has been publishing more works of fiction and poetry in translation than any other press except Dalkey Archive. Additionally, the “overall number of works of fiction in translation being published in the U.S. is growing pretty nicely.” To get a full account of what’s coming out this year, check out his 2013 Translation Database.
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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!