What’s the Value of NaNoWriMo?
New Dramas Focus On Atom Bombs and Witch Hunts
WGN America has ordered a 13-episode drama about the Manhattan Project. The series, which is set for a summer 2014 premiere, will be written by Sam Shaw and directed by Thomas Schlamme. This marks the second series ordered by WGN America this year. The first one, Salem, will focus on the Massachusetts town’s infamous 17th century witch trials.
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A Few More Goodbyes
Hopefully you’ve read Eryn Loeb’s Millions review of Goodbye to All That, a collection of essays by noted writers on the weird sorrow of leaving New York City. Contributors include Dani Shapiro, whom we interviewed back in October, Emma Straub, who wrote an essay for The Millions back in July, and Millions staff writer Emily St. John Mandel. At the LARB, Mason Currey says he dreaded reading the book out of fear that it would raise old anxieties, but then says that his hesitations “quickly evaporated” when he started reading.
Dalí’s Secret Word
Salvador Dalí appeared on an episode of the 1950s-1960s-era game show “What’s My Line?”. (via)
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Anxiety or Discipline?
Recommended Viewing: This installment of The Paris Review’s “My First Time” series, in which poet Ben Lerner remembers “working under the sign of crisis” and attempting to find a publisher for his first book, The Lichtenberg Figures. A couple of Lerner-related pieces from The Millions: a review of his newest novel, 10:04, and a Year in Reading from back in 2014.
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The Odyssey, Mapped
An interactive map created by Gisèle Mounzer tracks the winding, often circuitous journey taken by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
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Sarah Kasbeer on Writing About Trauma
Sarah Kasbeer on her debut essay collection, A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man, and how much of a role writing plays in processing trauma.
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What a dumb response. She did not blame NaNoWriMo for the problem of too few readers & too many writers. No doubt if Kelogg wrote less & read more she’d have better comprehension skills. (Amateur diagnosis.) I couldn’t bother with the rest after that deliberate misinterpretation.
Basically, Miller thinks the whole venture is neither here nor there but all the fundraising & gala efforts would be better served to bolstering readership rather than the neverending supply of writers that abound. Is that an idea so hard to grasp even if one disagrees? Golly.