David Risher founded the nonprofit Worldreader program in 2009 to distribute Kindles to children in the developing world. His aim was to increase literacy. Today the program has shared over 200,000 e-books with children in Ghana and Kenya, and Risher and his colleagues hope to allocate 10,000 reading devices by 2013.
Kindles to Kenya
“I Will Ruin Him”
Creative writing teachers ply a hazardous trade. Don’t believe us? Then maybe this frightening tale -- excerpted from an upcoming book, Give Me Everything You Have, which you can read more about in our preview -- will help change your mind.
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On Road Trips and Book Hoarding
"Driving hundreds of miles at a time... uncorked the forgotten joys of my undergraduate years—chief among them the fantasy that simply buying a book guarantees that it will get read." Ted Trautman on going on a book-buying binge during a cross-country road-trip.
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The Desk on the Floss
Stop, thief! It appears that George Eliot's writing desk has been stolen from the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery in England.
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BOMBlog Double
Two fantastic interviews are up on BOMB Magazine's BOMBlog: In the first, Millions contributor Matt Jakubowski speaks with Shards author Ismet Prcic, and in the second, Swamplandia! author Karen Russell does a Q&A for San Francisco's Litquake.
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Stories With Grit
Open Road Media is highlighting a collection of “Stories With Grit,” which is composed of stories that “grab you by the collar, knock you around a bit.” They’ve shared excerpts from some of their favorites, but which ones would you recommend?
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The Flowers of the Caper
You will not want to miss these fragments on writing, publishing, and remaining anonymous by the enigmatic Italian writer Elena Ferrante. This Millions essay by Cora Currier on reading Italy through Ferrante’s work pairs quite nicely.
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where can i by a kindle reader in Kenya, what is the price?