Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote adaptation somehow encounters more trouble
Just over two months ago, we posted the trailer for Terry Gilliam’s Quixote film adaptation, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. It was something of a triumph for the film and… Read more »
A trailer for Terry Gilliam’s quixotic Quixote appears at last
Making books is so hard, you guys. First, a writer must sit for years in thoughtful solitude to produce a manuscript. Then, she must suffer through repeated rounds of editing.… Read more »
Design Instagrammers are shelving books backwards, because who wants to know what to read in this day and age?
If you went up to Mark Zuckerberg back in 2001 and told him he’d one day ruin reading and books for everyone, he might’ve said, “Ok, I can see that… Read more »
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s… David Cay Johnston!
In recent weeks, as the noise of the Donald Trump campaign has grown so loud as to drown out almost everything else going on in the United States, a hero has… Read more »
“What I’d most like to get out of this is not to have to live in shame,” or, Jonathan Franzen does Jeopardy
What is—Jeopardy Power Players? Ah, Gentle Reader—a good answer in the form of a question. We would also have accepted: What is Jonathan Franzen on prime time TV? As to how this… Read more »
New study confirms that popular history genre is dominated by male subjects and authors
A recent study conducted by Slate confirms that trade history books—those intended for a general audience, not a solely academic one—are (big surprise) mostly written by men. Of the study,… Read more »
The anxiety of the summer reading list
Ken Kalfus, the author of, among other things, the funniest novel ever written about 9/11 and the best short story ever written about an IMF official, recently published a piece… Read more »
Two For Tuesday: Is The Publishing Industry Doomed?
Topics discussed: death, On Kawara, bouncy castles, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Affleck, Slate, disruption, #disruption, e-books, Barnes & Noble, ideology, Matt Yglesias, Uber, martinis, dens, tweed, candelight, Mumford and Sons, Periscope,… Read more »
New book can filter up to four years’ worth of drinking water
The latest innovation merging literary and food-related technologies is here, and unlike novelty items we’ve discussed on on MobyLives in the past (like the edible lasagna book and the fun-with… Read more »
Amazon drones under attack
Nicholas Lund argued in Slate this week that Amazon’s new drone program has underestimated its most powerful competitors. He’s not talking about publishers and collusion: he’s talking about birds and… Read more »