Moby Lives

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".

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.

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

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.

On the ninth anniversary of the death of Allen Ginsberg, and the publication of his best known poem, "Howl", we talk about Ginsberg's life and work with poet Eliot Katz, to whom Ginsberg was a friend and mentor.

An interview with Brian Dillon, the first ever winner of the Irish Book Award for Literary Non-Fiction.

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.

In Italy working on a book about a serial killer known as "the Monster of Florence," New Yorker writer Doug Preston was arrested and charged as an accessory to murder. His Italian co-author, meanwhile, is being charged by a rogue Italian judge of something worse. The writers' phones have been tapped, their offices broken into, accusations of murder and satanism are flying — we talk to Preston about the bizarre and dangerous situation that has developed in the attempt to suppress his book.

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.