Speaking to employees earlier this week, Ben Carson, the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said some pretty crazy and offensive things. You’ve probably heard the worst of them (um,… Read more »

Earlier this week, Melania Trump, wife of no-longer-presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, briefly claimed the title of America’s best-known Slovene, for all the wrong reasons. Unless you’ve been living… Read more »

Last week, in an attempt to troubleshoot his flagging campaign for president, Jeb Bush added another title to the myriad of marketing tools books by presidential candidates: an ebook titled… Read more »

We at MobyLives love to write about books written by presidential candidates. We’ve written about how they’re mandatory, how they have great titles, and how they contain fabricated quotations from the founding… Read more »

I don’t go to too many book signings. This is because they are boring. Mostly, you just stand in line, wait for a brief encounter with a person who will… Read more »

Topics discussed: Tim Parks, length, reader feedback (write to us!), Michael Schaub, Ben Carson, thinkpieces, Hillary Kelly, The Way We Publish Now, serialization, cookie cutting (metaphorically), Jonathan Franzen, Harper Lee,… Read more »

Last Tuesday, reporters at BuzzFeed—a website that is either the future of journalism or the end of journalism or your home for detailed coverage of “21 Extremely Simple Curling Iron… Read more »

The New York Times Book Review is one of the last two stand-alone book review sections in the country, or the very last (depending on what you think about the… Read more »