December 2011
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“You wanted to treat foreign lands as though they were friends with whom you...”
–  excerpted from Suicide by Edouard Levé, which has made three different Year In Reading lists so far: Scott Esposito, Mark O’Connell, and Dennis Cooper
Dec 12th
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“It was nice to be in the sunshine during the month of January and there is much...”
–  Jami Attenberg’s Year In Reading
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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“Dana Spiotta is like Don DeLillo with a vagina, and, wow, that vagina makes all...”
– Millions staff writer Edan Lepucki, on Stone Arabia.
Dec 11th
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“House of Holes had a higher guffaw-to-page ratio than any other book I read this...”
– Mark O’Connell on the filthiest book in his Year in Reading.
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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“The general idea is that customers have started to use the bookstore as a place...”
– Emma Straub, author and book seller, on the sad practice of ‘show rooming.’
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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A Different Stripe: The Millions loves our books →
Let’s just get real for a second here: who doesn’t totally adore the beautiful books from NYRB Classics? nyrbclassics: It’s that time of the year again, when everyone is posting their “Best Books of the Year” lists. And few places do it better that The Millions, who ask authors to name their favorite books of the ending year.  Here’s a round-up of our titles in The Millions’s...
Dec 10th
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“Off the bat I liked the cover. I often buy books based on covers. It didn’t even...”
– Rosencrans Baldwin, co-founder of The Morning News,on Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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“I can’t help but remember that reading — both the careful selection of books and...”
– Steve Himmer on “Making Room for Readers”, especially young ones. This post is part of our “Best of 2011” series, which highlights exceptional original pieces that have been published on The Millions this year.
Dec 10th
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WatchWatch
In the book, Ronson runs through a 20-item checklist used to diagnose psychopathy, in the process interviewing a mass-murderer, mental patients, daytime talk-show producers, a corporate downsizer, and more. Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio caught using an Oxford comma! He also makes excellent use of the em dash in his recommendation of Jon Ronson’s The Pyschopath Test for his Year in...
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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"How I Became a Best Selling Author." →
Dec 9th
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“This guy is not afraid of diving into the serious shit. It’s a first-hand...”
– Hamilton Leithauser, lead singer of The Walkmen, counts The Forever War by Dexter Filkins among the best books for his Year in Reading.
Dec 9th
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