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'''''The Millions''''' is an online [[literary magazine]] created by C. Max Magee in 2003.<ref name=magee/> It contains articles about literary topics and book reviews.
'''''The Millions''''' is an online [[literary magazine]] created by C. Max Magee in 2003.<ref name=magee/> 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 [[Jeffrey Eugenides]], [[Zadie Smith]], [[Geoff Dyer]], [[Susan Orlean]], [[Jennifer Egan]], [[Ben Marcus]], [[Colum McCann]], [[Chad Harbach]], [[Deborah Eisenberg]], [[Nathan Englander]], [[Philip Levine]], [[Alex Ross]], [[Jonathan Safran Foer]], [[John Banville]], [[Lionel Shriver]], [[Emma Donoghue]], [[Fiona Maazel]], [[Margaret Atwood]], [[Sam Lipsyte]], [[Aimee Bender]], [[Keith Gessen]], [[Lorin Stein]], [[Michael Cunningham]], [[Sigrid Nunez]], [[Hari Kunzru]], [[Jonathan Lethem]], [[Joshua Ferris]], [[William H. Gass]], [[Dana Goodyear]], [[David Shields]], [[Rick Moody]], [[Marco Roth]], [[Rivka Galchen]], [[Sarah Shun-lien Bynum]], [[Elizabeth McCracken]], [[Wells Tower]], [[Helen DeWitt]], [[Junot Diaz]], [[Elif Batuman]], [[Charles D'Ambrosio]] and [[George Saunders]]. <ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2012/12/a-year-in-reading-2012.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2011/12/a-year-in-reading-2011.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2010/12/a-year-in-reading-2010.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2009/12/a-year-in-reading-2009.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2008/12/year-in-reading-2008_7127.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2007/12/year-in-reading-2007.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2006/12/year-in-reading-recap.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/author/fiona-maazel]</ref>
''The Millions'' has several regular contributors as well as frequent guest appearances by literary notables, including [[Jeffrey Eugenides]], [[Zadie Smith]], [[Geoff Dyer]], [[Susan Orlean]], [[Jennifer Egan]], [[Ben Marcus]], [[Colum McCann]], [[Chad Harbach]], [[Deborah Eisenberg]], [[Nathan Englander]], [[Philip Levine]], [[Alex Ross]], [[Jonathan Safran Foer]], [[John Banville]], [[Lionel Shriver]], [[Emma Donoghue]], [[Fiona Maazel]], [[Margaret Atwood]], [[Sam Lipsyte]], [[Aimee Bender]], [[Keith Gessen]], [[Lorin Stein]], [[Michael Cunningham]], [[Sigrid Nunez]], [[Hari Kunzru]], [[Jonathan Lethem]], [[Joshua Ferris]], [[William H. Gass]], [[Dana Goodyear]], [[David Shields]], [[Rick Moody]], [[Marco Roth]], [[Rivka Galchen]], [[Sarah Shun-lien Bynum]], [[Elizabeth McCracken]], [[Wells Tower]], [[Helen DeWitt]], [[Junot Diaz]], [[Elif Batuman]], [[Charles D'Ambrosio]], [[Lauren Groff]], [[Meghan O'Rourke]] and [[George Saunders]]. <ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2012/12/a-year-in-reading-2012.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2011/12/a-year-in-reading-2011.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2010/12/a-year-in-reading-2010.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2009/12/a-year-in-reading-2009.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2008/12/year-in-reading-2008_7127.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2007/12/year-in-reading-2007.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/2006/12/year-in-reading-recap.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.themillions.com/author/fiona-maazel]</ref>


The name was chosen as a play on Magee's name, Maximilian, and because Magee thought the site would be millions of interesting things.<ref name=magee>[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</ref>
The name was chosen as a play on Magee's name, Maximilian, and because Magee thought the site would be millions of interesting things.<ref name=magee>[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</ref>

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The Millions
Available inEnglish
Created byC. Max Magee
URLwww.themillions.com
Launched2003; 21 years ago (2003)

The Millions is an online literary magazine created by C. Max Magee in 2003.[1] 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 Jeffrey Eugenides, Zadie Smith, Geoff Dyer, Susan Orlean, Jennifer Egan, Ben Marcus, Colum McCann, Chad Harbach, Deborah Eisenberg, Nathan Englander, Philip Levine, Alex Ross, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Banville, Lionel Shriver, Emma Donoghue, Fiona Maazel, Margaret Atwood, Sam Lipsyte, Aimee Bender, Keith Gessen, Lorin Stein, Michael Cunningham, Sigrid Nunez, Hari Kunzru, Jonathan Lethem, Joshua Ferris, William H. Gass, Dana Goodyear, David Shields, Rick Moody, Marco Roth, Rivka Galchen, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Elizabeth McCracken, Wells Tower, Helen DeWitt, Junot Diaz, Elif Batuman, Charles D'Ambrosio, Lauren Groff, Meghan O'Rourke and George Saunders. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

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]

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.”[10]

References

  1. ^ a b C. Max Magee: Appealing to the millions of book enthusiasts since 2003, January 11, 2011
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  10. ^ The New York Times: Nobel for Literature to Be Awarded Thursday, October 3, 2011
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