Poll: Should plagiarist Quentin Rowan write a book about his crimes?
Last week, Quentin Rowan, the disgraced serial plagiarist whose spy novel Assassin of Secrets proved to be massively plagiarized from dozens of other sources, wrote an essay at The Fix comparing… 4 / Read more »
Author Nathan Bransford recently did an unscientific poll to determine what people thought you should pay for the eBook version of a $25 hardcover book. Here’s his results: In response,… 24 / Read more »
Say you’re the Israeli captain of a Dolphin-class nuclear submarine cruising the Red Sea and you learn that Iran (or, to make things more complicated, an agent acting in Iran’s… 5 / Read more »
Reviewing a slate of new what-should-we-think-about-the-Internet books in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik humorously divides the experts into three camps: The Never-Betters believe that we’re on the brink of a… 2 / Read more »
Over the weekend the New Bedford Whaling Museum held it’s annual “Moby Dick Marathon,” a 25-hour public reading of Herman Melville’s classic. Hundreds attended. In the digital age, the age… 2 / Read more »
David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel, The Pale King, is the most anticipated work of fiction in 2011. In a recent MobyLives post I worried that the book will not live up to… 18 / Read more »
Jason Boog over at GalleyCat has posted a report about two upcoming J.D. Salinger biographies, including an 800-page biography by David Shields. The post also includes a creepy YouTube video… Read more »
We have a love/hate relationship with literary prizes. On one hand, we’re overjoyed they exist since they instigate heated literary debate. On the other hand, they often seem maddeningly opaque… 8 / Read more »