Does Primates of Park Avenue have “holes big enough to drive an Escalade through”?
Wednesday Martin’s Primates of Park Avenue, a high-concept memoir that approaches the wealthy wives of Manhattan’s Upper East Side anthropologically—sort of—has been hard to avoid over the last few weeks.… Read more »
Should fire chiefs self-publish homophobic books with terrible covers? A MobyLives investigation
Until his experiment wish self-publishing, things were going great for Kelvin J. Cochran, whose career as a firefighter has been a long and fruitful one. In 1999, he began his… Read more »
David Gilmour is a sad old fool
Alex Shephard: Hello Dustin, you “real heterosexual guy,” you. Read any good books lately? Dustin Kurtz: Aw, Alex, that’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me. I must say,… Read more »
It’s a Boy’s Boy’s Boy’s World
Earlier this year, NPR ran a story about the white, white world of children’s books, “As Demographics Shift, Kids’ Books Stay Stubbornly White.” It cited a report by the Cooperative… Read more »