By now, unless you’re holed up in the International Space Station, you’ve probably heard the devastatingly sad news of Anthony Bourdain’s death last Friday at the age of sixty-one. People all over… Read more »

Hey so like, you may have heard that more actors are publishing novels these days. Maybe some of you read Sean Penn’s Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff. In fact, maybe… Read more »

Although National Giving Day has already passed, there are still a bunch of very needy organizations out there trying to punch into the black for 2017. One of them is The… Read more »

MobyLives has been mostly taking it easy this August — we’re technically on hiatus, although, between publishing a list that’s fire, having a lot to say, and releasing the book of record… Read more »

The Man Booker Prize 2016 longlist was announced yesterday at noon. The Booker “dozen” of thirteen novels was chosen from 155 submissions, published in the UK between 1 October 2015 and 30… Read more »

Sometimes, literary heavy-hitters and Hollywood big shots turn out to be friends. Take for example TS Eliot and Groucho Marx, two very smart people who could not have been more different,… Read more »

In our previous installment, I discussed how the portrayal of book publishing in The Affair, Showtime’s award-winning drama series, is both laughably inaccurate and admirably surreal. This time, we delve into the… Read more »

Chain restaurant Chipotle Mexican Grill has, for about the past year, been featuring short stories by well known authors on its takeout cups and bags. The first round featured big… Read more »

“’The last time I was in New York,’ Karl Ove ­Knausgaard wrote recently in The New York Times Magazine, in his account of traveling through the ­United States, ‘a well-known… Read more »

Last May, spurred on by Jonathan Safran Foer, Chipotle Mexican Grill introduced a line of cups and takeout bags with short stories by authors like Foer, Toni Morrison, and George… Read more »