May 08, 2018 » MobyLives! Archives

“Trump is a man who will take money from pretty much anyone”: Watch Seth Hettena talk Trump / Russia on MSNBC’s Morning Joe

“We’re going to get Putin on this. We’re going to help Trump win the election.” That’s what mafia-connected Russian real estate developer Felix Sater said during Ivanka Trump’s 2015 trip to Moscow,… Read more »

Melville House Books

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
Who can annex a gazelle? — Penny Johnson

“I love documents”: How Seth Hettena came to write Trump / Russia, on sale today

Seth Hettena

Russia wasn’t much on the radar when I started researching what became my book, Trump/Russia: A Definitive History. Obama was still president, the Steele Dossier hadn’t leaked yet, and James Comey… Read more »

What has two thumbs, praise from Jane Mayer, and a new book out on the president’s relationship with Russia? Seth Hettena!

Melville House

It’s a hell of a time to be alive. Ollie North is enjoying a macabre second act, Israel’s prime minister has insulted Japan’s prime minster by serving him desert in a… Read more »

God help us if publishers become “the morals police”

Taylor Sperry

For Publishers Weekly, Rachel Deahl reports that book publishers are pressing for “morality clauses” to be included in deals with new authors. In the most immediate sense, this is a… Read more »

Ian McEwan reveals a rather absurd incident that only an author of his stature could experience

Michael Barron

Are you really the foremost authority on a book you write? That’s the question bubbling up after a bemusing, if slightly awkward, interview with renowned author Ian McEwan. In an interview… Read more »