AuroraramaJean-Christophe Valtat
RotisStephane Reynaud
The investigation into the murder of poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini may be reopened after the man convicted of the 1975 murder has recanted his story. According to an Agence France Presse wire story, Pino Pelosi, who served nine years for the slaying, told…
As a follow-up to yesterday’s report about the arrest of a suspect in the murder of writer Christa Worthington, a report that implied the controversial bestselling book on the case, Invisible Eden, had been badly off-target, MobyLives revisits Robert Birnbaum‘s ind-depth interview with the author…
The brutal rape and murder of writer Christa Worthington has finally been solved, and according to an Associated Press wire story by Matt Pitta, the solution seems at odds with speculation in the bestselling book about the case, Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and…
In her first extended interview, Anita Thompson, the widow of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, says the writer “began saying that suicide wasn’t a dishonorable thing a few months before he shot himself. . . .” In an interview with Dan Elliott of the Associated Press…
There’s no question that the great Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz was a “modernist master,” but the manner of his death has made him a much more complex historic figure: Schulz, a Jew in the Drohobycz ghetto who survived the Nazi occupation until 1942…
“Many thousands of words have now been spent on the theological ramifications of the Asian tsunami,” observes James Wood in a commentary for The Guardian. “Literature can no more ‘explain’ suffering than can science or religion,” he notes, “but it can describe it better than…
January 7 was the 33rd anniversary of the suicide of John Berryman. As Robert Lacy writes in an essay for Poetry Daily, “Art Hitman, a carpenter employed by the university, was on the bridge at the time and saw what happened. ‘He jumped up on…
While college writing programs have proliferated in the West, there’s only one such in Russia: Moscow’s Literary Institute. As Anna Malpas reports in a Moscow Times story, “The institute was founded in 1933 by writer Maxim Gorky, and began by providing evening courses for workers.”…
In the wake of John Kerry‘s loss in the presidential race, Alicia Ostriker notes that “Without humor, we are done for.” In a commentary for Newsday, she notes the things that helped her keep her spirits up through the difficult campaing, such as a pin…