A statue of the 1960s-era writer Ken Kesey in Eugene, Oregon, is in danger of being displaced by a high-rise apartment complex, and some locals are livid. The Wall Street… Read more »

Great news! The Baffler, America’s favorite curmudgeonly left-wing magazine, has unearthed, excavated, and digitized its past. And what a past it is! All of The Baffler’s back issues (which have,… Read more »

Faithful readers of MobyLives may recall last year’s sultry slideshow of writers in their underpants, including figures like Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, William Carlos Williams, and William Faulkner.… Read more »

On a recent afternoon, in the middle of some research for an upcoming book, I fell down a Google rabbit hole and landed on a Polish blog post with the… 1 / Read more »

The news of the seizure of three packages carrying roughly 11 pounds of marijuana being shipped to the good folks at St. Martin’s Press has spread far and wide. It… Read more »