Moby Lives

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.