Palgrave Macmillan is posting sample chapters from book proposals online, inviting comment “from anyone who feels they can contribute to the development of the works in question.” The trial will continue for the next six weeks.
An Experiment In Crowdsourced Development
Introducing Full Stop
A new lit-focussed site has launched recently. Full Stop already has an impressive number of reviews on display alongside interviews with Gary Shteyngart and Charles Burns.
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America Central
Newsweek Senior Writer (and Millions contributor) Alexander Nazaryan has a new interview with William T. Vollmann up on Newsweek’s website. To start things off right, he reports that if Vollman were to win the Nobel Prize, he'd enjoy giving a decent chunk of the prize money to prostitutes.
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Glamour’s Page 194 Girl
At Glamour's blog, the fashion magazine shot heard round the world: a nude photo of a girl who--gasp!--wears a size 12 and doesn't have a six-pack. And, she looks happy. Apparently, this is what readers of fashion magazines have been waiting for.
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Sonya Chung Reading at Long Island University
I'll be reading at Long Island University in Brooklyn on Monday, April 4th at 12 noon, with Gary Shteyngart. I have no idea what I'll be reading - possibly something new, or something very old.
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Stalking Eileen Myles
Former Millions intern and current McNally Jackson bookmonger Rachel Hurn discusses “escaping from” San Diego with Eileen Myles. “The sixth time I saw Myles read, I told her I was stalking her,” Hurn writes. “I think she thought I was serious. Maybe I was.”