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Satan is Everywhere

  • Lyz Lenz
  • October 3, 2014
Watch yourself. The intrepid investigators at Melville House discovered secret Satanic messages in John Darnielle’s Wolf in White Van: It may seem farfetched to imagine a book which actually uses…
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Joyce Proves as Difficult to Translate as to Read

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 23, 2014
The first of three parts of a Chinese translation of Finnegans Wake consumed eight years of translator Dai Congrong’s life. The almost unreadable book proves even more difficult to translate because…
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Gary Shteyngart Won’t Blurb Your Book

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 21, 2014
A Gary Shteyngart blurb seemed almost a rite of passage in recent years, with the author of Super Sad True Love Story offering his recommendation to more than one hundred…
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The Tale of Two Community Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 18, 2014
Brooklyn has two independent Community bookstores—Park Slope’s Community Bookstore and Cobble Hill’s The Community Bookstore. John Scioli, owner of the latter, tells MobyLives that he founded the original with his…
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Amazon Guilt

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 17, 2014
We’ve all felt a little bit guilty saving a few pennies buying from Amazon rather than our neighborhood independent bookseller. But what about Amazon employees—do they experience guilt when shopping…
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Is There Too Much Translation?

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 14, 2014
Writing over at Brooklyn Quarterly, Will Evans discusses why he founded a publishing house dedicated to translation: In addition to being a philosophical problem, literary translation is also a contentious business matter.…
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Bookstores and Gentrification

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 2, 2014
Last week, the New York Times wrote about the end of Manhattan’s bookstore culture as the shops follow the city’s literary scene into the outer boroughs. Now Dustin Kurtz over…
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The Horror, the Horror of Short Form Fiction

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 24, 2014
Despite the publication this past year of behemoth novels like Donna Tartt’s 750 page The Goldfinch and Eleanor Catton’s 850 page The Luminaries, current trends increasingly embrace truncated fiction. MobyLives…
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Some More on Fair Use

  • Brian Spears
  • June 27, 2011
MobyLives has extended the discussion Andy Baio started on his project Kind of Bloop, which I wrote about for The Rumpus on Saturday. MobyLives makes a good point when talking…
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