You can treat yourself to The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg for the low price of $2.99. As readers of the book will find out: it’s hard to resist treats…
The Middlesteins On a Budget
Appearing Elsewhere
Want to get a little background on The Millions? Yours truly is interviewed at the Blog Ads blog today.
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New Stoppard on the Way
A new Tom Stoppard play entitled "The Hard Problem" will open next January at the UK’s Dorfman Theatre. The production will be Stoppard’s first new play since "Rock N’ Roll" in 2006.
Tuesday New Release Day
This Tuesday's notable new releases include Ayelet Waldeman's Red Hook Road, Laurence Gonzales' Lucy and Tana French's Faithful Place.
Who Wants to be a Millionaire Poet?
There's an oxymoron for you: "Rich Poet." But the new fortunes of Emirati poet Saif Al Mansouri prove that with talent, grit, and a live television audience, truly anything is possible. The UAE show "Millionaire's Poet," in its sixth season, awarded $1.3 million (the Nobel Prize. for comparison, is $1.2 million) to winner Al Mansouri, and perhaps something even more valuable - a global audience of up to 70 million, actually tuning in.
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Blue Nights
The secret subject of Joan Didion’s work has always been her troubled daughter. Her wrenching new memoir, Blue Nights, tells us why.
Wood on the Missing Bits of HHhH
James Wood's New Yorker review of Laurent Binet's HHhH, makes note of the sections of the book that were cut by editors (and name-checks The Millions). Here they are if you want to read them and learn more about the context behind the cuts.
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Adventures in Journalism
Bono and Bob Geldof guest edited Monday's issue of the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto.
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Unearthing the Curtain
When you think of Shakespeare’s plays, you probably think of the Globe Theatre. Yet for more than twenty years before the Globe was opened, the Curtain Theatre was the first home to such plays as Romeo and Juliet and Henry V. Unfortunately the place was closed and disassembled in the 17th century, and the location was presumed lost. Fast forward 400 years, however, and a team of East London excavators have finally uncovered a few of its sections.
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