Want to publish anonymously (and then stay that way)? Be thankful you’re not friends with Charles Dickens.
Thanks for Nothing, Dickens
Modern Makerspaces
Recommended Reading: Public libraries are becoming gateways to technological invention.
DFW Details
Craig Fehrman digs up and posts the Details' 1996 profile of David Foster Wallace that is mentioned a few times in Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself but has until now not been available online.
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“I run around my house with bacon on my head and Sam Tanenhaus is sending me notes.”
Ron Charles, the WaPo's fiction critic and the witty and winning originator of the "video book review" genre, gets profiled in Publishers Weekly.
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“In a communal dressing room”
"Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room." Judith Thurman writes for The New Yorker about Women in Clothes and her experiences in thrift stores and clothing swaps. For more about the connections between feminism, dressing and literature, check out Rachel Signer's Millions review of the same anthology.
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What’s The Point?
There is good news for those of us whose dreams of artistic superstardom don't seem to be panning out -- a job listing from McSweeney's seeking failed artists for an associate position. "We would hate for you to be pretentious," the listing states, "but if you don’t regularly call other people pretentious — this might not be the job for you."
10 Free E-Reader Books
Just got a new e-reader for Christmas but afraid to overspend too easily? Many public domain books are classics, ones that you might want to revisit from school or others that you feel guilty for not having read. Here is a list of 10 free books. Or, if you're more interested in paying for newer titles, you can check out our cheat sheet of the favorites of Millions readers and places to find more.
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