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Moby Lives Radio, 05/06/06

Moby Lives Radio, 04/29/06

We talk with Sarah Nelson, the editor of "Publisher's Weekly" and Copyright attorney, Richard Danay, about the plagiarism case surrounding 17 year-old, Kaavya Viswanathan's, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life".

Moby Lives Radio, 04/22/06

Gerard Jones discusses his website, "Everyone Who's Anyone In Adult Trade Publishing", where he collects rejection letters from across the publishing industry, responding to the submission of his novel.

Moby Lives Radio, 04/15/06

A discussion with Boston Globe Reporter, Alex Beam, about Jesus' rise to the top of the best seller lists.

Moby Lives Radio, 04/08/06

A discussion with Jenna Freedman of radicalreference.info, a website providing research support, education, and access to information to activist communities, progresive organizations and independent journallists; and an interview with Steve Almond about his new novel, 'Which Brings Me to You, co-written with Juliana Baggott.

Moby Lives Radio, 03/18/06

Leftists indy publishing notable Anthony Arnove talks about his forthcoming book with the New Press,Iraq: the Logic of Withdrawal - a book modeled on one of the seminal anti-war books of the sixties, Howard Zinn's Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal. Arnove discusses his book, as well as some other forthcoming anti-war books, and the challenges of publishing such work.

Moby Lives Radio, 03/04/06

Today's show features interviews with the two most trouble-making librarians in the country "radical" librarian Jessamyn West discusses the revived US Patriot Act - it's supposedly modified, but is it? - and Foetry.com founder Alan Cordle discusses some new guidelines for literary prizes that seem to be a response to his work.

Moby Lives Radio, 02/25/06

Kelly Burdick talks to Punk Planet publisher Ann Elizabeth Moore about a distribution crisis threatening some of the country's leading zines and small book publishers. And Denise Nicholas talks about how she went from starring in TV shows such as The Cosby Show to writing what one reviewer called "the best book of fiction ever written about the civil rights movement."

Moby Lives Radio, 02/11/06

New York Times reporter Warren St. John discusses how he got one of the main players in the J.T. Leroy hoax to 'fess up, and Jessa Crispin talks about the passing of Betty Friedan and Wendy Wasserstein and which feminist writers should take their place. Also, the UK report from Mark Thwaite, and some letters-to-the-editor.

Moby Lives Radio, 02/04/06

Moby Lives Radio, 01/21/06

On this weeks show we follow up our previous interview with Vanderbilt University librarian, Christopher Waldrop, about the effects of the U.S. Patriot Act, and "Google Print;" an interview with "Bush's Brain" author, James Moore, about how he ended up on the "No Fly Watch List," his new book, and more; and a poem from Hal Sirowitz.

Moby Lives Radio, 01/14/06

MobyLives Radio returns with an all new show, including reports from our UK and Canada correspondents, new episodes of Far Flung Readers and Men, Men, Men, an interview with writer and Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch, and more.

Moby Lives Radio, 12/21/05

Laura Miller, of the Salon.com and the New York Times book review sections, follows up on her previous interview with Moby Lives Radio - about year-end "best-of" lists - discussing the list of the "Top Ten Books" of 2005 she's just compiled for Salon.com, and the art of the literary review.

Moby Lives Radio, 12/20/05

Jeremy Mercer, the author of "Time Was Soft There," discusses Paris' "Shakespeare & Co." bookstore: the time he spent (like an estimated 40,000 before him) living there, the store's history and policy of hospitality, and the life of George Whitman, the store's founder.

Moby Lives Radio, 12/19/05

An interview with Eric Lorberer, Editor-in-Chief of the literary review, Rain Taxi, on the occasion of Rain Taxi's 10th anniversary; and, continuing our series of interviews with independent booksellers, an interview with Rachel Whang of Baltimore's "Atomic Books."

Moby Lives Radio, 12/16/05

Chicago report from Bookslut.com's Jessa Crispin, UK report from Mark Thwaite, and an interview with Rick Simonson of the Elliot Bay Book Company of Seattle, WA.

Moby Lives Radio, 12/15/05

A discussion with Stephen Dixon, the author of 25 novels including his latest, Phone Rings, discusses his process, his novels, and more; and a report from George Murray of bookninja.com, and Moby Lives' Canada correspondent, on the latest from the icy north.

Moby Lives Radio, 12/14/05

An interview with Paul Berman, the author of "Terror and Liberalism," about his new book, "Power and the Idealists," and how it began with a photograph of former German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, as a young revolutionary leftist.

Moby Lives Radio, 12/13/05

Moby Lives Radio, 12/12/05

Salon.com book reviewer and New York times contributer talks about year-end Critics' "best-of" lists - how she compiles hers, what the critera are, what role popularity plays, what role political considerations play, how much attention people pay, and more...

Moby Lives Radio, 12/09/05

Radical Librarian, Jessamyn West, joins us to discuss roving Camel libraries in Kenya and the widening divide between the digital world and rural libraries.

Moby Lives Radio, 12/08/05

George Murray reports from Canada on the decline of English Language fiction sales, a $1.3 billion deal between the owners of the 'Toronto Star' and the 'Globe and Mail' newspapers, and this year's 'Canada Reads' list; an interview with Lucinda Carter, of the French Publisher's Agency, a unique agency that helps French publishers place their books in the U.S.; and a look at the gender bias in this weeks' "New York Review of Books"' table of contents.

Moby Lives Radio, 12/06/05

An interview with Rosalyn Pierson who has been planting copies of Don Quixote all across the city of Miami; and a dispatch from our far flung correspondent in the Netherlands on the polyglot reading habits of the Dutch.

Moby Lives Radio, 12/05/05

An interview with Connie Doebly, the Executive Producer of C-SPAN's Book-TV on why Book-TV doesn't cover fiction, and what happens if an author taped for Book-TV turns out to be boring, among other things, and letters to the editor.

Moby Lives Radio, 12/02/05

UK correspondent Mark Thwaite gives us the latest on the connections between schizophrenia, art, and sex, Random House's guerilla marketing campaign for John Grisham's new novel, and suspicious food found in a shipment of a scholarly edition of Osama bin Laden's writings, among other things, and publisher Doug Siebold explains why book returns are good for nobody.

Moby Lives Radio, 12/01/05

Author James Marcus discusses "Amazonia," an account of his experiences working at Amazon.com from the early days, our Canada correspondent George Murray gives us the latest news from the North, and the launch of a new series of interviews with Melville House foreign sub-agents.

Moby Lives Radio, 11/30/05

"Is George W. Bush actually the Anti-Christ?" Journalist Tim Apello finds that the president fits the description, and book designer Deb Wood talks about her work at the Princeton Architectural Press and the finer points of quotation marks.

Moby Lives Radio, 11/29/05

David Yulen talks about his new job as head of the Los Angeles Times Book Review, poet David Lehman reads from his book, "Operation Memory," and more...

Moby Lives Radio, 11/28/05

Robert Gray gives us a dispatch from the Northsire bookstore on what's known in retail as "Black Friday," "Publisher's Lunch" proprietor Michael Cader talks about Google Print, Publisher's Lunch, and more...

Moby Lives Radio, 11/21/05