July 05, 2017 » MobyLives! Archives

The “campus novel” is one of the few things with the word “campus” in it that is beloved by many. (Did you love the “Campus Police” when they confiscated your… Read more »

Colleges and Universities

Beowulf authorship debate takes another turn; suggests a single author — Tom Clayton
UMass's fledgling environmental literary magazine gets sponsorship — Michael Barron
Dear Dairy: artist makes book out of cheese — Tom Clayton
School bans backpacks; boy protests by bringing books to school in a microwave — Tom Clayton

Go ahead and bring those Howard Zinn books on your vacation, the TSA doesn’t care

Julia Fleischaker

Last month, we reported on a story that the TSA was going to start taking an interest in what books you were carrying in your luggage. A new federal airport… Read more »

Imagine you—a well-studied, discerning critic—watching the film Airplane! and mistaking it for a sequel to Airport 1975. That is, imagine mistaking the spoof for the original. In 1916, Witter Bynner,… Read more »

Zyzzyva and other pleasant and not-so-pleasant changes to the OED

Peter Clark

Growing up in a very American family, I often had to listen to actual, bona-fide, real exhortations on America’s principal compendium of words, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. “Look at this fine pinnacle of… Read more »

Melville House Books

July 5, 2017

The campus novels (and movies) that get it right (and wrong)

Jacques Berlinerblau

Go ahead and bring those Howard Zinn books on your vacation, the TSA doesn’t care

Julia Fleischaker

Fake Art, Not War

Ryan Harrington

Zyzzyva and other pleasant and not-so-pleasant changes to the OED

Peter Clark