July 06, 2015 » MobyLives! Archives

Ken Kalfus, the author of, among other things, the funniest novel ever written about 9/11 and the best short story ever written about an IMF official, recently published a piece… Read more »

Book journalism & criticism

Protesting sexism, comic book artists pull out of running for Angoulême Grand Prix — Liam O'Brien
Is Bill Gates the new Oprah? (No, of course not.) — Ena Brdjanovic
Book spotted in San Bernardino shooting suspects' home inspires Amazon review battle — Liam O'Brien
Are financial scammers really turning to Neil Strauss' The Game for guidance? — Liam O'Brien

The Art of the Novella challenge 32: Tales of Belkin

Jonathan Gibbs

Title: Tales of Belkin Author: Alexander Pushkin First published: 1831 Page count: 108 First line: Having taken it upon ourselves to publish the Tales of I.P Belkin, which we offer now to the public, we… Read more »

An end to the Kafkaesque fate of Kafka’s papers

Taylor Sperry

Shortly before he died of tuberculosis in 1924, Franz Kafka sent all of his existing papers–he’d burned an estimated 90% of his work, and most of what remained had never… Read more »

I’m reading the new Law Of War Manual so you don’t have to: Chapters 1-3

Liam O'Brien

(The following is from my ongoing series about the Department of Defense’s recently published Manual Of the Laws of War. This entry covers the first three chapters of the manual.… Read more »

Scientology tell-all book coming from David Miscavige’s father

Nick Davies

Ron Miscavige, Sr. has reportedly inked a book deal with St. Martin’s Press, for a memoir about his son David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology. Tony Ortega… Read more »

Melville House Books

July 6, 2015

The anxiety of the summer reading list

Mark Krotov