Literary Tourism: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Other than a brief interlude in Ohio for college, I have lived in Minneapolis or Minneapolis-adjacent my entire life. People from Minneapolis tend to be really into being...
Why You Should Surround Yourself With More Books: Critical Linking, December 23, 2018
Sponsored by MIRA Books and Hunting Annabelle by Wendy Heard. An antilibrary is a powerful reminder of your limitations — the vast quantity of things you...
A Year in Reading: Ed Simon
For my first ever Year in Reading at The Millions, I will only be featuring books which I checked out from the local public library in...
Theater shows to check out this holiday season
We’re going to go ahead and guess if you’re in NYC for the holidays to see some theater, you’re well aware of big Broadway hits like...
Trump Is One Step Closer to Opening America’s Largest Wildlife Refuge to Oil and Gas
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is a nearly 20 million-acre large national treasure. It’s the largest piece of untouched land in the U.S., home to...
Selling Pirate Movies & Putting the Money in a Personal PayPal Account is Insane
On December 12, the US Department of Justice revealed that a federal grand jury had indicted five men in four countries on charges that they distributed...
Convo now lets you see which employees got the memo
Convo, a tool perhaps best described as a real-time company message board, picked up a new trick this week: automated acknowledgements. It’s a pretty common thing...
An Apple event, but with Bad Lip Reading
Bad Lip Reading has held a special place in my heart longer than just about any other YouTube channel. The formula is just too perfect: take...
Crowdfunded developer of space sim Star Citizen takes on $46M in funding at nearly $500M valuation
The story of the game Star Citizen and Cloud Imperium, the company developing it, is almost too ludicrous to believe: a crowdfunding effort to create a...
Gaming chat startup Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
Chatty gamers are apparently worth billions. Discord, the gaming chat startup with more than 200 million active users, announced Friday that it had secured $150 million...
