Yes, please, more screen adaptations of Philip K Dick!
As we approach the release of Blade Runner 2049, we see ever more evidence of sci-fi legend—and Last Interview series participant—Philip K. Dick’s unending mutability. Writer, speculator, and drug-fueled vision-quester, Dick… Read more »
Bringing the war home — to journalists
Journalism has always been a dangerous profession, especially for foreign practitioners of the trade. I’ve lost count of the friends and acquaintances who have died over the years in Latin… Read more »
It’s a good day to just sit around Menckin’
You may just have woken up hungry for bananas, because today marks the 137th anniversary of H.L. Mencken’s birth. A legendary journalist, critic, linguist, world-class cigar-chomper, bathtub counter-historian, real-life Gene Kelly character,… Read more »
Hail and farewell: Holger Czukay
We were deeply saddened to learn this week that Holger Czukay, bass player for the foundational Krautrock band Can, had died at the age of seventy-nine. We reached out David… Read more »
Thoughts on antifa
Boston-area bookseller, Melville House author, and beloved MobyLives columnist Josh Cook first published these thoughts on his blog, In Order of Importance. We read them, loved them, and are grateful to Josh for allowing… Read more »
Walt Whitman’s new old stuff is good, but I liked his old new stuff way better
It is fall. The kids have gone back to school. MobyLives is back from hiatus. And some of the biggest authors in the world have books coming out — and… Read more »
Working with Ray Bradbury was “sort of like working in the washing machine of the future”
“The only thing you’re ever gonna own in your life is your work.” So says the great Ray Bradbury—sci-fi visionary, narrator-of-the-future, and Last Interview Series participant—in this little-seen CBC interview from 1968. Bradbury,… Read more »
Freshman Move-In Day: Why it sucks for all
“Move-in Day” is the term used to describe an obscure national rite of passage that is loathed by all and sundry. Each year on this occasion, hundreds of thousands of… Read more »
Academics come out in support of Antifa author Mark Bray
Earlier this week, we wrote about developments at Dartmouth, whose president, Phil Hanlon, had recently published a statement distancing the university from Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-fascist Handbook. Bray—presently a visiting scholar… Read more »
Joel Osteen at the Drowning Point
“In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, someone is always at the drowning point.”—Nathanael Hawthorne Joel Osteen, the sunny New South avatar of America’s new… Read more »