In book titles, “Lie” is the new “Girl”
Remember when there were all those books being published that had the word “girl” in the title? Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Girl on the Train, Gone Girl. (No judgment… Read more »
Two known facts: 1) Ursula K. Le Guin is a paragon, and 2) There is no such thing as an “alternative fact”
The greatness of writer Ursula K. Le Guin is well documented and pretty well understood. Author of such science-fiction classics as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, the… Read more »
Ben Carson’s books: Fiction? Nonfiction? Does it matter?
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 »
Christian bookstore chain refusing to sell books about visiting heaven, because they might all be made up
What causes 180 bookstores to stop carrying wildly successful bestsellers? Integrity, dammit, that’s what. LifeWay Christian Resources, a major Christian bookstore chain, has officially stopped carrying any book in which the… Read more »
Sorry, novelists, Google just made lying obsolete
Google subsidiary Motorola has just patented a throat tattoo that includes a microphone and, just for the hell of it, a lie detector. Thanks, Google. The neck tattoo microphone—most likely… Read more »
Liars from across the nation descend on New York City
The biggest convention in the lie industry is taking place again in New York this week. Lie publicists, marketers, editors, peddlers of lies, and of course the tireless liars themselves have arrived… Read more »
A rare look at the handbook to the Harry Ransom archives.
News came out of Austin on Monday that the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, among the world’s great storehouses of literary archives and ephemera, would be getting… Read more »
The Bill Gates reading list
And it may be interesting enough to cut through the usual migraine-caliber high pitched squeal of a million year-end lists … Read more »
Sonny Mehta acquires lucrative new titles while trapped by Hurricane Sandy
The Random House offices remained largely inaccessible again Wednesday and those employees who were able to make it in to the office around treacherous bridges and Donald Trump’s least-favorite crane… Read more »
Over the holidays at The London Review of Books, Eliot Weinberger provided a delightfully detailed evisceration of George W. Bush’s Decision Points. At one point, Weinberger compares Bush’s prose to… Read more »