May 03, 2013 » MobyLives! Archives

Last week, it was announced that John Freeman is leaving his role as editor of Granta after five years at the journal to teach at Columbia University. Yesterday it came out that… Read more »

Media

Marco Rubio’s An American Son is a memoir, but is it also an ethics violation? — Mark Krotov
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien
FSG publishing anonymously authored Silicon Valley satire---all 18 pages of it — Ena Brdjanovic
Are financial scammers really turning to Neil Strauss' The Game for guidance? — Liam O'Brien

Spare Rib returns: radical feminist magazine relaunching this month

Zeljka Marosevic

The British radical feminist magazine Spare Rib is set to relaunch later this month after being out of print for 20 years. At the helm will be journalist Charlotte Raven; also involved… Read more »

The deleted tweets of U.S. politicians

Sal Robinson

Think you deleted that tweet, Junior Senator? Think again. For there is now a website, Politwoops, which collects deleted tweets by U.S. politicians and preserves them for all time, so… Read more »

Writing a novel? Don’t quit your day job.

In his new book Daily Rituals, Mason Currey examines the creative processes that have kept writers, composers, and artists going throughout history. One secret to success? Keep your day job. As… Read more »

Reading as performance

Kirsten Reach

The Quiet Volume, an installation art exhibit about the reading experience, is up this week at NYU’s Bobst Library and the Schomburg Center. The brainchild of Ant Hampton and Tim… Read more »

Melville House Books

May 3, 2013

More turnover at Granta

Alex Shephard