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 »
Wordsmiths, obviously, should know how to sting other writers. But some have proven especially good at it. Herewith, the ten historic barbs we think the most notable and the story… 1 / Read more »
LESSONS IN SPIN: Ezra Pound’s daughter says he wasn’t a fascist or anti-Semitic, he was just an incredibly shallow trend-follower The 86-year-old daughter of Ezra Pound has launched a legal action to force an Italian fascist group that has named itself after her father to change its name. According to… 1 / Read more »