The prestige-mini-series-option-industrial complex
Wooooooo wooooooo WOOOOO woo woo woo woo woooooooo (that’s an onomatopoeia of the tune of the theme music of Big Little Lies, to get you in the mood). … Read more »
Author and spiritual guide Marianne Williamson to seek 2020 Democratic nomination
In all kinds of blog posts past, we’ve seen the line between author and politician (and politician-adjacent) blurred. Now, a best-selling author—who also has the ear of Oprah on spiritual… Read more »
The Voynich manuscript may have been the prescription pad of a Jewish doctor with loony handwriting, according to one scholar
Because of our strong conviction that excellent shit should be written about on the internet, MobyLives has many times covered the Voynich manuscript, often described as the world’s most mysterious book, and probably… Read more »
These powerful ladies want you to read these powerful books by ladies
Nobody can sell a book like Oprah and her eponymous book club. I do not say this as a rhetorical flourish. Nobody can sell a book like Oprah. In 2005, Businessweek’s Hardy… Read more »
Week One: Stepping into snow
It’s the seventh day since the Bad News, the seventh morning we’ve awakened to the music of crisis. Hello. We’re seeing developments already that outrage our hearts and baffle our… Read more »
Tim McGraw song urging simple virtues to be published as book
Sometimes a simple song can hit a deep nerve. That’s the implicit intention of Tim McGraw’s recent single, “Humble and Kind,” which has been so well received as an inspirational… Read more »
Emma Watson is launching a feminist book club
On Tuesday, we asked Is Bill Gates the new Oprah? Today, we ask Is Emma Watson also the new Oprah, and maybe actually a better new Oprah? Ok, ok, enough… Read more »
Is Bill Gates the new Oprah? (No, of course not.)
Bill Gates can add another accolade to his list—the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft is also a book critic. Katherine Rosman at The New York Times reports that Gates has garnered… Read more »
There are no home runs left: What Jon Stewart’s departure from The Daily Show may mean for the publishing industry
For most of the last decade, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report were the two most important television shows in book publishing—and indeed, The Daily Show,… Read more »
Facebook’s first book club meeting doesn’t quite reach Oprah levels
What if Mark Zuckerberg threw a party, and nobody showed up? The first meeting of Facebook’s much heralded book club went off with more of a whimper than a bang.… Read more »