March 08, 2017 » MobyLives! Archives

I have mixed feelings about “A Day Without Women,” the general strike planned for today, International Women’s Day. My ambivalence has practical implications — I teach on Wednesdays, but as the week… Read more »

Melville House Authors

On David Graeber — Melville House
NYTimes tallies tsunami of Trump tomes; why John Dean's book Is different — Mike Lindgren
A Message from John Dean — Amelia Stymacks
Tactical Lessons From the Civil Rights Movement—an excerpt from Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit — Melville House

A Detroit bookshop has its Facebook page deleted, seemingly at the request of a Swedish media conglomerate

Simon Reichley

Husband-and-wife team Cary Loren and Colleen Kammer own a bookstore in Oak Park, Detroit, called Book Beat. They opened in 1982, expanded their storefront in ’85, and have been doing business on… Read more »

Women’s History Month bookstore display turns around spines on male-authored books; online commentators lose spines entirely

Ryan Harrington

Cleveland, Ohio, the Arcadia of the Middle-West and home to more professional sports glory than the rest of the nation combined, has just scored a point for independent bookstores — in the… Read more »

Could Ben Carson really stimulate your brain into reciting verbatim a book you read sixty years ago?

Julia Fleischaker

Speaking to employees earlier this week, Ben Carson, the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said some pretty crazy and offensive things. You’ve probably heard the worst of them (um,… Read more »

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March 8, 2017

A Day Without Women — One Writer’s Ambivalence

Susan Bordo