Hopscotch—a mobile opera—channels the influence of Julio Cortázar
The Industry, a Los Angeles-based experimental opera company led by Yuval Sharon, will close its latest project, Hopscotch, on November 22nd. Hopscotch follows on the heels of Sharon’s similarly ambitious and similarly… Read more »
Bring back the National Book Award for Translation!
In 1980, Julia Child won a National Book Award for Current Interest for a cookbook called Julia Child and More Company. Seven years earlier, George B. Schaller had won a… Read more »
SHIRTLESS SIGHTING: Mark Twain
Faithful readers of MobyLives may recall last year’s sultry slideshow of writers in their underpants, including figures like Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, William Carlos Williams, and William Faulkner.… Read more »
SLIDESHOW: Writers in underpants
On a recent afternoon, in the middle of some research for an upcoming book, I fell down a Google rabbit hole and landed on a Polish blog post with the… 1 / Read more »
Is newspaper web traffic smaller than we thought?
Has the Internet increased readership of newspapers and magazines? Until now that’s been the case made by media planners, and they seem to have had the figures to back it… Read more »