Walker Evans’s photos and 170K more digitized by the Yale Project
This is huge: the biggest photo collection in American history is now fully searchable and available as an interactive map through Photogrammar, a digital project from Yale University. Aside from… Read more »
Was James Agee related to Walt Whitman?
In the November 7 issue of The New York Review of Books, Ian Frazier’s review of James Agee’s Cotton Tenants, includes an intriguing parenthetical remark as he describes Let Us Now Praise… Read more »
Melville House at the American Library Association Conference in Chicago
From Austrian writer Wolf Haas’s reading for the LIVE @ your library stage, to the Independent Crime Fiction from Independent Publishers panel at the Pop Top stage, to great conversations… Read more »
James Agee in Brooklyn
Read the story behind Cotton Tenants in The New York Times He was only in Brooklyn for a few months, but while he was here in the winter of 1938 and spring of 1939, James Agee… 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 »