Claudia Rankine’s Citizen marches to the stage
If winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry and being a finalist for the very same award for criticism didn’t convince you that Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric… Read more »
Who Watches the Go Set a Watchman Watchmen?
The pretty machines of literary analysis have always been somewhat stymied in throughly juicing Harper Lee’s beloved popularity by the lack of numerical prolificness her bibliography has offered us so far. One… Read more »
Nuclear agreement with Iran no signifier of poetic agreement with Iran
During the lip-biting anxiety (in certain circles, at least) of the negotiations that preceded the final nuclear deal with Tehran earlier this week, a number of news sources caught on… Read more »
Texas to collectively forget about much of Civil War, U.S. history
Jelani Cobb, in his brilliant take in last week’s New Yorker on the post-Charleston backlash against the Confederate flag, put the oblivious narrative used by the flag’s supporters within the… Read more »
Typewriters Present: Poetry
While some of us over here are still calling fad at diligent typewriters citywide, the folks at The Poetry Society of New York have been hard at work with the… Read more »
Man accused of terrorism because of his book collection set free
Marcus Dwayne Robertson, an Orlando–based man of letters, faced a possible two decades of prison time after prosecutors sought to latch charges of terrorism on to Robertson’s otherwise unrelated charges… Read more »
Marvel enters the race for the next Great American Coloring Book For Adults
The Long Book! The Short Book! But what of the coloring book? Over here at Moby Lives!, we’ve been affording due coverage to the skyrocketing trend of these newfangled “grown-up… Read more »
Poetry For Robots!
For millennia, the multifarious language of man was ours and ours alone and we were (generally) given to understand that the robot (and before that, golums and minotaurs) world communicated… Read more »
New POVs: on Fifty Shades of Grey and The Mersault Investigation
As everyone knows by now, the Penguin Random House empire has been graciously blessed with the newest installment in the Fifty Shades- related stack of money. Not coming to awkward… Read more »
Talking about talking to literary ex-cons
Over at The Rumpus, Cullen Thomas (author of Brother One Cell, an account of his own time in a South Korean prison) has been interviewing various American literary names about their… Read more »