October 06, 2017 » MobyLives! Archives

Here we are, starting yet another month of 2017 with violence erupting all over the world. On October 1, the people of Catalonia were to vote on the autonomous community’s independence from Spain. The… Read more »

Melville House Books

BBC announces refreshingly contemporary "100 Novels That Shaped Our World" — Tom Clayton
Wishing the happiest 200th birthday to Herman Melville — Christina Cerio
"Sustainable Sue" discusses Keeping the Lights On: The What, Where, and How of Consumer Energy in New York — Christina Cerio
An interview with Christopher Boucher, one of the Christopher Bouchers in Big Giant Floating Head, by Christopher Boucher — Christopher Boucher

Journalists at the LA Times are attempting to form a union

Simon Reichley

On Wednesday morning, LA Times national correspondent Matt Pearce posted this photo of a letter announcing a public campaign to unionize the paper’s newsroom: https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/915586452884307972 The letter formalizes a union drive that… Read more »

A poet and editor is accused of plagiarism

Ian Dreiblatt

A sentence you don’t get to write every day: poetry and plagiarism are having kind of a moment together. This summer, UK-based investigator Ira Lightman tracked down uncredited lines from Maya Angelou, Dylan Thomas, and Tupac… Read more »

Will Amazon.com be around when grandma’s gone, mom?

Melville House

This month marks the fifteenth anniversary of rapper MC Paul Barman’s weird, smart, hyperactive debut, Paullelujah!, an album distinguished by its exuberant rhymes, its careful production, and a palette of references broad enough to… Read more »