Wishing the happiest 200th birthday to Herman Melville
Happy happy birthday to Herman Melville! 200 years! Wowza. For readers that are New Yorkers, Poets.org put together this really impressive self-guided Herman Melville super fan walking tour that would… Read more »
![Smash that Smiley Face / Frowny Face button as appropriate, for it [was] World Emoji Day!](https://cdn2.mhpbooks.com/2018/07/cowboy-hat-146x115.png "Smash that Smiley Face / Frowny Face button as appropriate, for it [was] World Emoji Day!")
Smash that Smiley Face / Frowny Face button as appropriate, for it [was] World Emoji Day!
It’s always World Something Day, isn’t it? So much so that, I suspect, there isn’t a day that isn’t Something Day by now. Are there any free days left? Must we… Read more »
“Holy shit! A BOOKSTORE?!?!”: An interview with McNally Jackson’s Sam MacLaughlin
As any New Yorker surely knows, the great indie booksellers at McNally Jackson opened up a new shop in Williamsburg earlier this year. Manager Sam MacLaughlin very graciously took a few… Read more »
Everything you ever wanted to know about teens, emoji, and heiroglyphs
Some people use emoji. Some people do not use emoji. Some people, when they use emoji, use them to ask a partner or friend whether they should eat pizza for… Read more »
Allegations that Bob Dylan plagiarized his Nobel Lecture are absurd
Yesterday, we wrote at some length about Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan’s recent Nobel Lecture, in which NLBD, beatifically wearing his trademark colors of aloof bemusement, self-effacing grandiosity, serious good humor, and genial… Read more »
Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture is better than we deserve
By now you’re presumably aware of the Swedish Academy’s brilliant decision last October to award noted non-potato-chip Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature. To paraphrase a great thinker: Yes, y’all. Yes. After the dizzying… Read more »
I had not thought Moby-Dick had enschlocked so many
There are many misguided-seeming adaptations of Moby-Dick out there. Recently, we discovered a particularly goofy one. Rejoice: there are countless more. There are operas, Saturday morning cartoons, overly-serious-but-pleasantly-PBS-scented documentaries, and, best of… Read more »
“He took my leg — I don’t intend to give him my ass.”
Hello hello hello. Would you like / did you know it was possible to watch an exhilaratingly misbegotten Moby-Dick adaptation, in which Rocky Horror Picture Show star Barry Bostwick delivers amaaazingly… Read more »
When the “Dick” in Moby Dick warped the minds of our children
You remember how when you read Moby Dick as a kid all you could think about was the “Dick” in the name? A puerile suggestion, to be sure, but perhaps one… Read more »
For your listening pleasure: books!
Thursday, no two ways about it, is one of the slow days. With the week no longer young, and the promise of Friday still hanging elusively around the bend of… Read more »