Tom Rachman, author of Millions Hall of Famer The Imperfectionists, has a new short story out as a Kindle Single: “The Bathtub Spy.”
Rachman’s Single
Surrealist and Sweet
I've written before about Haruki Murakami's advice column, but at that point it was still a work-in-progress with few details or samples available. A month later, the submission period for questions is over and Murakami's responses are being published. The Washington Post calls the column "surrealist and sweet," and NPR has reported on the ongoing Mr.Murakami's Place project as well, with an emphasis on semi-magical stories involving cats.
Covers That Were; Covers That Could’ve Been
Sean Manning of the Talking Covers blog spoke with a bunch of authors, editors and artists to take a long, close look at the work of Lorraine Louie, the designer “who came up with the uniform, De Stijl layout” of the inimitable Vintage Contemporaries. And while on the topic of book covers, check out Tammy Fortin’s “New Covers for Old Classics” series she put together for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Hipster Sommelier
Might I suggest a Pamplemousse with that Ben Fountain, sir? BookRiot has very helpfully compiled a list of La Croix/book pairings. See also: this in memoriam for Michael Jackson, beer connoisseur. Yeah no, not the one you're thinking of.
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Feminist Bookstores Resisting Trump and Getting Stronger Sales
"The feminist bookstores in the nation’s largest cities are experiencing the most significant upticks in sales, as well as in foot traffic." We love bookstores here at the Millions, especially feminist ones. So we were ecstatic to see this piece in Publisher's Weekly about the bonanza of feminist bookstores seeing an increase in sales and attention. While there are not many of these bookstores left, the ones that are still alive attribute their increased popularity to the 'Trump bump.' Read the story here and be sure to visit all the bookstores mentioned the next time you're in town.
“The chorus needs to be real to make this work.”
Millions staffer Edan Lepucki contributed "Chorus" to Slate's Trump Story Project, an ongoing series of short fiction pieces written by contemporary authors.
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