March 06, 2018 » MobyLives! Archives

Among the stracciatelle of Italian political parties, there’s one that manages to churn up special agita for two seemingly unconnected groups: the European left, and readers of American poetry. The openly Fascist CasaPound… Read more »

Opposing hate

A true tale of Holocaust survival wins the Costa Book of the Year Award — Nikki Griffiths
Little Free Libraries in Lincoln, Nebraska fight back against Nazi bullshit — Stephanie DeLuca
Books for Africa celebrates the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth — Simon Reichley
Congressman Keith Ellison asks Amazon why they’re still selling Nazi merchandise — Stephanie DeLuca

These marginalia in a sixteenth-century Hamlet may be Shakespeare’s own

Taylor Sperry

“I saw these faint marks, and my eyes popped out of my head,” Shakespeare scholar John Casson told Alison Flood at the Guardian. Casson was perusing the British Library’s copy of… Read more »

Presenting… the Barnes and Noble Book Club!

Michael Moglia

Yesterday, we wrote about what looks like a Barnes-and-Noble-to-Amazon cloning program the country’s beleaguered largest bookselling chain is beginning to implement. Now, as Jim Milliot writes in Publishers Weekly, B&N has announced its plans to stir in… Read more »

You know who had kind of a funny way of talking? Ernest Hemingway had kind of a funny way of talking.

Melville House

Ernest Hemingway was a very, very interesting guy. Also, here is a 1954 NBC interview in which he speaks as though reading day-glo cue cards held aloft by floating pixies visible only… Read more »

Melville House Books

March 6, 2018

What do you do with a Fascist writer: Checking in on Pound and Céline

Ian Dreiblatt