September 25, 2017

Name-calling is an integral part of politics. I’m proud to say that we here at MobyLives are not above it. We’ve called our sitting president a number of naughty things… Read more »

Reference books

Theories abound after anonymous return of Darwin's notebooks — Tom Clayton
Time flies when you're having fungibles - NFT is the 2021 Collins Dictionary Word of the Year — Tom Clayton
Librarians Lobby Leaders on Infrastructure Initiative — Mike Lindgren
Derogatory dictionary debated; Brits bashed for bigotry — Mike Lindgren

“Every woman adores a fascist”: Ivanka, the Donald, and Sylvia Plath, because this is 2017

Susan Rella

Welcome to the Now: an era that will gain prestige in the annals of history for murderous sex robots, failed promises of taco trucks, and petulant leaders of the free world being… Read more »

Literati Comedy: A night of comedians pretending they’re the worst kind of literary fiction authors

Peter Clark

Readings can be clusterfucks of human awkwardness. We’ve all seen it happen: you sit in a room of appreciative bibliophiles, slowly turning on a once-adored writer because they won’t put… Read more »

Candy the yams and spice the hams: Shel Silverstein would’ve turned eighty-seven today

Today is many things: the feast day of Saint Ceolfrith, who you were probably just thinking about; National Youth Day in Nauru, the world’s third-smallest country, blighted by epidemic obesity and the catastrophic… Read more »

Melville House Books

You can’t spell “Donald Trump” without D-O-T-A-R-D

Ryan Harrington

“Every woman adores a fascist”: Ivanka, the Donald, and Sylvia Plath, because this is 2017

Susan Rella

Literati Comedy: A night of comedians pretending they’re the worst kind of literary fiction authors

Peter Clark

Candy the yams and spice the hams: Shel Silverstein would’ve turned eighty-seven today

Melville House