Recommended listening: David Naimon interviews David Mitchell about “time, maps, cats,” and The Bone Clocks (which we reviewed here) for Between the Covers.
Two Davids and The Bone Clocks
Aftermath
"So what now? Well, first and foremost, we need to feel." The New Yorker has essays from sixteen writers including Toni Morrison, Junot Diaz, Mary Karr, and Gary Shteyngart on the causes for and effects of Trump's win.
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The LOC wants YOU
Hosted by the Library of Congress, this year's National Book Festival will take place on Saturday, September 2, in Washington D.C. and include authors such as David McCullough and Diana Gabaldon. Should you be interested in volunteering, click here to fill out a Google submission form or email Faye Levin, the 2017 volunteer coordinator, at [email protected] And let us know if you're going!
Preview of It Chooses You
To celebrate the printing of Miranda July's It Chooses You in paperback McSweeney's is offering a free excerpt from the book. Also see our brief review of It Chooses You and the excellent Onion article wondering what July's whole "thing" is, anyways.
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Tuesday New Release Day
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays, Encounter, is now out. And for those still trying to figure out Inception, the shooting script has been published.
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Stalk Famous New York Readers
Have some fun with this New York specific feature highlighted by Atlas Obscura. The New York Society Library is private member-based library and it has some pretty famous members, going all the way back to Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Due to the library's excellent record keeping you can trace these famous members reading histories. "In the early 20th century, Library staff switched from big, blank ledger books to index cards for record keeping. Henceforth they archived cards only for “prominent” members, discarding the rest. The gap is major, but the surviving cards offer a lifetime of book recommendations."
Lineup Announced for 2013 PEN World Voices Festival
The lineup for the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature has been announced. The festival will commence on April 29th with a reading “about the notion of bravery” from three writers – including Millions contributor A. Igoni Barrett.
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Tuesday New Release Day
New releases this week are Lydia Davis’ new translation of Madame Bovary, Ingrid Betancourt’s memoir Even Silence Has an End, The Prizefighter and the Playwright, a book about the unlikely relationship between George Bernard Shaw and boxer Gene Tunney, and the poetry collection Human Chain by Nobel-Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney.
Selling Marxism
An extremely rare copy of Karl Marx's Das Kapital sold at auction for $51,739 this past month. That's more than five times as much as this extremely rare copy of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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