January 04, 2018 » MobyLives! Archives

January 4, 2018

David Bowie’s son (aka the director of the film adaptation of “Warcraft”) is starting an online book club in his dad’s honor

Taylor Sperry

It’s true that we’ve only now reached the other side of the fomo/anxiety-inducing Reading Round Up Season, but you might want to indulge in just one more list before you… Read more »

Film

More Bond-related books set for 2022, with first female author at the helm — Tom Clayton
Bond returns to our screens in 2021 ... and our shelves in 2022 — Tom Clayton
Woody Allen’s memoir finally gets published to, largely, silence… — Nikki Griffiths
A documentary about book sellers is here to lift your spirits — Andréa Córdova

Writer about writing wants help writing his next book about writing

Peter Clark

Among the most common tropes among writers, or those hoping to be writers, is that writing is hard. I can’t really disagree, considering that I stared at a blank WordPress box for… Read more »

Many more Bothans died to bring us this movie review

Ian Dreiblatt

A long time ago, in a political and economic climate far, far away, Star Wars was a movie. Now, it’s a whole lot of things, a nebulous expanse of cultural space… Read more »

How to fight the richest people in New York and win: Lessons from the movement to save the New York Public Library

Members of the Committee to Save the New York Public Library

It’s 2018! So far, so good. For the first few days of the year, we were on hiatus, revisiting favorite posts of 2017. Today, we’re back, but there’s one more dizzying high… Read more »