The Millions

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The Millions
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Owner PWxyz, LLC
Created byC. Max Magee
URL www.themillions.com
Launched2003;20 years ago (2003)

The Millions is an online literary magazine created by C. Max Magee in 2003. [1] [2] It contains articles about literary topics and book reviews.

The Millions has several regular contributors as well as frequent guest appearances by literary notables, including Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Elif Batuman, Aimee Bender, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Michael Cunningham, Charles D'Ambrosio, Helen DeWitt, Junot Diaz, Emma Donoghue, Geoff Dyer, Jennifer Egan, Deborah Eisenberg, Nathan Englander, Jeffrey Eugenides, Joshua Ferris, Charles Finch, Jonathan Safran Foer, Rivka Galchen, William H. Gass, Keith Gessen, Dana Goodyear, Lauren Groff, Garth Risk Hallberg, Chad Harbach, Hari Kunzru, Jonathan Lethem, Philip Levine, Sam Lipsyte, Fiona Maazel, Ben Marcus, Colum McCann, Elizabeth McCracken, Rick Moody, Sigrid Nunez, Meghan O'Rourke, Susan Orlean, Alex Ross, Marco Roth, George Saunders, David Shields, Lionel Shriver, Zadie Smith, Lorin Stein, and Wells Tower. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

The name was chosen as a play on Magee's name, Maximilian, and because Magee thought the site would be millions of interesting things. [1] In 2011 the blog released between three and four reviews per week. [11] According to the scholar Sebastian Domsch, "The postings reveal the characteristic mixture of a very strong emphasis on personal experiences and viewpoints on the one side and an extensive practice of intertextual opening up by way of hyperlinks on the other." [12] The Sudbury Star 's Jessica Watts wrote, "My favourite part of this site is the feature The Future of the Book, which includes a number of articles looking at the rise of the digital age and the increase in use of digital books and media (of particular interest for me, someone working in a library". [13]

The Millions posted an open letter to the Swedish Academy in 2011 asking it to "stop the nonsense and give Philip Roth a Nobel Prize for Literature before he dies." [14]

In 2019 The Millions was acquired by Publishers Weekly . [15]

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  1. 1 2 http://weblog.blogads.com/2011/01/12/c-max-magee-appealing-to-the-millions-of-book-enthusiasts-since-2003/ C. Max Magee: Appealing to the millions of book enthusiasts since 2003, January 11, 2011
  2. ↑ "The NS Recommends: US Magazines". New Statesman . Vol. 141, no. 5102. 2012-04-23. p. 45. ProQuest   1010281114.
  3. ↑ "A Year in Reading 2012". The Millions. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  4. ↑ "A Year in Reading 2011". The Millions. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  5. ↑ "A Year in Reading 2010". The Millions. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  6. ↑ "A Year in Reading 2009". The Millions. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  7. ↑ "A Year in Reading 2008". The Millions. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  8. ↑ "A Year in Reading 2007". The Millions. 2011-12-16. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  9. ↑ "A Year in Reading: Recap". The Millions. 2011-12-16. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  10. ↑ "Maazel, Fiona". The Millions. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  11. ↑ Ciabattari, Jane (September–October 2011). "Back From the Dead: The State of Book Reviewing". Poets & Writers . Vol. 39, no. 5. ProQuest   905248650.
  12. ↑ Domsch, Sebastian (2009). "Critical genres: Generic changes of literary criticism in computer-mediated communication". In Giltrow, Janet; Stein, Dieter (eds.). Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 229. ISBN   978-90-272-5433-7 . Retrieved 2022-06-13– via Google Books.
  13. ↑ Watts, Jessica (2010-10-30). "The best book blogs; A Good Read". The Sudbury Star . p. C4. ProQuest   2211703468.
  14. ↑ "Nobel for Literature to Be Awarded Thursday, October 3, 2011". The New York Times Artsbeat. October 3, 2011.
  15. ↑ Rosenfield, Kat (2019-01-09). "The Millions Will Live on, But the Indie Book Blog Is Dead". Vulture . Archived from the original on 2022-06-13. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
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