October 03, 2017 » MobyLives! Archives

After the horrors in Las Vegas this week, the New York Times once again updated its history of American mass shootings. Going back a decade and including more than two dozen similar incidents,… Read more »

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On the 10th anniversary of Hans Fallada's Every Man Dies Alone — Kevin Murphy
Wishing the happiest 200th birthday to Herman Melville — Christina Cerio
An interview with Christopher Boucher, one of the Christopher Bouchers in Big Giant Floating Head, by Christopher Boucher — Christopher Boucher
Who can annex a gazelle? — Penny Johnson

Publishers take a stand: “People have to stop thinking there are no consequences to being sexist”

Taylor Sperry

A while back, we wrote about Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen, the trailblazing independent publishers behind Ireland’s Tramp Press. Davis-Goff and Coen argued that in addition to the disproportionate number… Read more »

Killing Bill O’Reilly’s writing career

Chad Felix

As we reported earlier this year, Bill O’Reilly—serial sexual harasser and the guy who called Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas “the price of freedom”—isn’t selling quite as many books as he… Read more »

World-class pizzologist will help you fight two hungers with one slice

Ian Dreiblatt

Pizza is having kind of a moment — in recent months, we’ve seen Pizza Rat grow from a fledgeling meme to a bona fide cultural phenomenon, watched in horror as the “Fyre… Read more »

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October 3, 2017

Living under the gun in America

Peter Manseau