- That’s Too Much: The Problem with Prolific Writers http://www.themillions.com/2015/09/thats-too-much-the-problem-with-prolific-writers.html 8 comments books
- Let Me Think About It: On Recommending Books http://www.themillions.com/2015/05/let-me-think-about-it-on-recommending-books.html 3 comments books
- The Art of the Chapter http://www.themillions.com/2015/02/the-art-of-the-chapter.html 5 comments books
- Judging Books by Their Covers 2015: US Vs. Netherlands http://www.themillions.com/2015/02/judging-books-by-their-covers-2015-us-vs-netherlands.html 3 comments books
- "I did something in 2014 that would throw a wrench into anyone's reading: I bought a bookstore." http://www.themillions.com/2014/12/a-year-in-reading-tom-nissley.html 73 comments books
- "I am going to try to convince you that The Novel: A Biography is one of the most important works of both literary history and criticism to be published in the last decade." http://www.themillions.com/2014/09/the-art-of-the-novel.html 52 comments books
- "Brian Hart owes Cormac McCarthy in the same way that Cormac McCarthy owes William Faulkner. He’s that good." -Philipp Meyer http://www.themillions.com/2014/12/a-year-in-reading-philipp-meyer.html 6 comments books
- Gift ideas for serious readers (besides bookmarks or a book they've probably already read) http://www.themillions.com/2014/12/beyond-bookmarks-10-gifts-for-readers.html 9 comments books
- First Encounter of the Worst Kind: On Reading James Patterson at 32,000 Feet. http://www.themillions.com/2014/11/first-encounter-of-the-worst-kind-on-reading-james-patterson-at-32000-feet.html 15 comments books
- The point of reading books isn't to finish: it's to never stop. http://www.themillions.com/2014/11/reading-together-even-while-reading-alone.html 5 comments books
- Six Years Ago Today Michael Crichton Died. Essay by Jared Young http://www.themillions.com/2014/11/the-boy-who-would-be-crichton.html 17 comments books
- ‘The Blank Screen Is the Enemy': The Millions Interviews David Mitchell. http://www.themillions.com/2014/10/the-blank-screen-is-the-enemy-the-millions-interviews-david-mitchell.html 13 comments books
- The Truce Between Fabulism and Realism: On Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Modern Novel http://www.themillions.com/2014/10/the-truce-between-fabulism-and-realism-on-gabriel-garcia-marquez-and-the-modern-novel.html 3 comments books
- The data shows that Americans love to read and write poetry, and poems are all around us, so why don't poetry books sell? http://www.themillions.com/2014/07/americans-love-poetry-but-not-poetry-books.html 24 comments books
- Italo Calvino’s forgotten science fiction masterpiece http://www.themillions.com/2014/07/italo-calvinos-science-fiction-masterpiece.html 120 comments books
- If you’ve ever wondered what a good copy editor does, this interview is worth reading http://www.themillions.com/2014/02/style-sheet-a-conversation-with-my-copyeditor.html 210 comments books
- The Millions : The Common Core Vs. Books: When Teachers Are Unable to Foster a Love of Reading in Students http://www.themillions.com/2014/01/the-common-core-vs-books-when-teachers-are-unable-to-foster-a-love-of-reading-in-students.html 143 comments books
- 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced (Fiction and Non-Fiction) http://www.themillions.com/2013/01/2012-national-book-critics-circle-award-finalists-announced.html 4 comments books
- This is perhaps the greatest hang-up of the modern novelist — that fiction is somehow unsophisticated or inherently cliché if it is rooted in the writer’s own life, and that writers should be creative enough to invent entirely new worlds and find drama only in the unfamiliar. http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/in-defense-of-autobiography.html 3 comments books
- The Lost Manuscript to A Confederacy of Dunces http://www.themillions.com/2012/03/the-lost-manuscript-to-a-confederacy-of-dunces.html 10 comments books
- Ban This Book: An Uncensored Look At The Lorax And Other Dangerous Books http://www.themillions.com/2012/03/ban-this-book-an-uncensored-look-at-the-lorax-and-other-dangerous-books.html 41 comments books
- U.S. covers vs U.K. covers - Who did it best? http://www.themillions.com/2012/02/judging-books-by-their-covers-u-s-vs-u-k-3.html 10 comments books
- Authors' Acknowledgments: love 'em or hate 'em? http://www.themillions.com/2012/01/the-story-behind-the-story-an-appreciation-of-authors-acknowledgments.html 6 comments books
- Year in Reading 2011 http://www.themillions.com/2011/12/a-year-in-reading-2011.html 3 comments books
- 8 reasons NOT to self-publish in 2011-2012 http://www.themillions.com/2011/11/reasons-not-to-self-publish-in-2011-2012-a-list.html 11 comments books
- How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Write ‘The Marriage Plot’ http://www.themillions.com/2011/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-write-the-marriage-plot.html 3 comments books
- "It's a mistake to rarify reading and put books out of reach." http://www.themillions.com/2011/08/making-room-for-readers.html 51 comments books
- Philip K. Dick and the Pleasures of Unquotable Prose http://www.themillions.com/2011/06/philip-k-dick-and-the-pleasures-of-unquotable-prose.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+themillionsblog%2Ffedw+%28The+Millions%29&utm_content=Google+Reader 16 comments books
- On Not Going Out of the House: Thoughts About Plotlessness http://www.themillions.com/2011/06/on-not-going-out-of-the-house-thoughts-about-plotlessness.html 4 comments books
- x-post from /r/literature: "What We Call What Women Write" My sister wrote an article about all the Jennifer Egan (who just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction) bashing going on right now and what it means for women in writing. Good stuff. http://www.themillions.com/2011/04/what-we-call-what-women-write.html 6 comments books
- Judging Books by Their Covers: U.S. Vs. U.K. http://www.themillions.com/2011/02/judging-books-by-their-covers-u-s-vs-u-k-2.html 13 comments books
- "The characters in The Magicians fully acknowledge the existence of the Harry Potter books, which, if anything, makes the realm of the novel feel all the more realistic." http://www.themillions.com/2010/11/beyond-harry-oz-and-narnia-lev-grossmans-the-magicians.html 15 comments books
- "I often find that the book I have read is somehow not as exciting as the book I had imagined reading." http://www.themillions.com/2010/05/confined-by-pages-the-joy-of-unread-books.html 3 comments books
- "It’s the fact that the bestselling books in the world are poorly written, erotic fan fiction that a man wrote about himself." http://www.themillions.com/2010/09/stieg-larsson-swedish-narcissus.html 117 comments books
- A mini-boom in big books would seem to complicate our assumptions about the Incredible Shrinking Attention Span. http://www.themillions.com/2010/09/is-big-back.html 3 comments books
- Before there was "World War Z" there was "Warday" http://www.themillions.com/2010/08/oral-history-at-the-end-of-the-world-world-war-z-and-its-cousins.html 3 comments books
- A Fourth-Grader reviews Portnoy’s Complaint: "Mrs. B—what does 'Jewish guilt' mean?" http://www.themillions.com/2010/08/fourth-grade-summer-reading-portnoys-complaint.html 4 comments books
- As it was with our first loves, we fall hard for our first books http://www.themillions.com/2010/08/the-way-we-used-to-walk-the-dog.html 3 comments books
- "I have long harbored the notion, no doubt foolishly, that incarceration wouldn’t be all that particularly bad. To the contrary. It would give me time to catch up on my reading." http://www.themillions.com/2010/08/a-harbored-notion.html 3 comments books
- Massive list of the most anticipated books of summer and fall http://www.themillions.com/2010/07/most-anticipated-summer-reading-2010-and-beyond-the-great-2010-book-preview-continued.html 9 comments books