John Maltbie
@jmaltbie.bsky.social
In-house intellectual property attorney, school board member, bassist, reader, tea drinker, father, husband.
“Zuleika Dobson,” by Max Beerbohm (1911). Absolutely crazy satire of British society and Oxford culture.
February 3, 2026 at 2:44 AM
“Zuleika Dobson,” by Max Beerbohm (1911). Absolutely crazy satire of British society and Oxford culture.
Hoping to finish listening to Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell" (amazing!) and reading Robert Butler's "A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life."
January 31, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Hoping to finish listening to Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell" (amazing!) and reading Robert Butler's "A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life."
Make It Ours: Virgil Abloh, Robin Givhan
Motion Dazzle, Jocelyn Jane Cox
System Collapse, Martha Wells
Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells
Network Effect, Martha Wells
So Late In The Day, Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Motion Dazzle, Jocelyn Jane Cox
System Collapse, Martha Wells
Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells
Network Effect, Martha Wells
So Late In The Day, Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
January 31, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Make It Ours: Virgil Abloh, Robin Givhan
Motion Dazzle, Jocelyn Jane Cox
System Collapse, Martha Wells
Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells
Network Effect, Martha Wells
So Late In The Day, Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Motion Dazzle, Jocelyn Jane Cox
System Collapse, Martha Wells
Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells
Network Effect, Martha Wells
So Late In The Day, Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Frederick Douglass, Donald Blight
Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
Nevada, Imogene Binnie
Severance, Ling Ma
My Effin Life, Geddy Lee
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
American War, Omar El Akkad
Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
Nevada, Imogene Binnie
Severance, Ling Ma
My Effin Life, Geddy Lee
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
American War, Omar El Akkad
January 31, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Frederick Douglass, Donald Blight
Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
Nevada, Imogene Binnie
Severance, Ling Ma
My Effin Life, Geddy Lee
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
American War, Omar El Akkad
Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
Nevada, Imogene Binnie
Severance, Ling Ma
My Effin Life, Geddy Lee
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
American War, Omar El Akkad
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
A Mercy, Toni Morrison
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Chain Gang All Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Loving, Henry Green
Runaway, Alice Munro
A Mercy, Toni Morrison
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Chain Gang All Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Loving, Henry Green
Runaway, Alice Munro
January 31, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
A Mercy, Toni Morrison
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Chain Gang All Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Loving, Henry Green
Runaway, Alice Munro
A Mercy, Toni Morrison
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Chain Gang All Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Loving, Henry Green
Runaway, Alice Munro
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano
Cultish, Amanda Montell
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Leftovers, Tom Perotta
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
There There, Tommy Orange
The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
Cultish, Amanda Montell
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Leftovers, Tom Perotta
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
There There, Tommy Orange
The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
January 31, 2026 at 2:29 PM
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano
Cultish, Amanda Montell
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Leftovers, Tom Perotta
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
There There, Tommy Orange
The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
Cultish, Amanda Montell
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Leftovers, Tom Perotta
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
There There, Tommy Orange
The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin
When the Wolf Comes Home, Nat Cassidy
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin
James, Percival Everett
H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
The Namesake, Jumpa Lahiri
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin
When the Wolf Comes Home, Nat Cassidy
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin
James, Percival Everett
H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
The Namesake, Jumpa Lahiri
January 31, 2026 at 2:29 PM
The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin
When the Wolf Comes Home, Nat Cassidy
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin
James, Percival Everett
H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
The Namesake, Jumpa Lahiri
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin
When the Wolf Comes Home, Nat Cassidy
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin
James, Percival Everett
H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
The Namesake, Jumpa Lahiri
Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson
Sula, Toni Morrison
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson
Sula, Toni Morrison
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
January 31, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson
Sula, Toni Morrison
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson
Sula, Toni Morrison
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Zone One, Colson Whitehead
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
Americanah, Chimamada Ngozie
All Systems Red, Martha Wells
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Zone One, Colson Whitehead
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
Americanah, Chimamada Ngozie
All Systems Red, Martha Wells
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
January 31, 2026 at 2:29 PM
The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Zone One, Colson Whitehead
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
Americanah, Chimamada Ngozie
All Systems Red, Martha Wells
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Zone One, Colson Whitehead
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
Americanah, Chimamada Ngozie
All Systems Red, Martha Wells
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
Just finished Styron’s “Sophie’s Choice” (oof) and started Clarke’s “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” (fun so far). Started third watch of “Sinners,” but switched over to a rewatch of “O Brother Where Art Thou.”
January 24, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Just finished Styron’s “Sophie’s Choice” (oof) and started Clarke’s “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” (fun so far). Started third watch of “Sinners,” but switched over to a rewatch of “O Brother Where Art Thou.”
Finished “Stranger Things,” “Pluribus” and “The Staircase in the Woods” by Chuck Wendig. Getting back into “Sophie’s Choice” and a 3000 piece puzzle.
January 3, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Finished “Stranger Things,” “Pluribus” and “The Staircase in the Woods” by Chuck Wendig. Getting back into “Sophie’s Choice” and a 3000 piece puzzle.
Just finished “American War” by Omar El Akkad and looking for something new. “Knives Out” movie.
December 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Just finished “American War” by Omar El Akkad and looking for something new. “Knives Out” movie.
Listening to “The Secret History,” by Donna Tartt and Rush’s discography in order after finishing Geddy Lee’s “My Effin Life.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Listening to “The Secret History,” by Donna Tartt and Rush’s discography in order after finishing Geddy Lee’s “My Effin Life.”
Finishing David Blight’s Frederick Douglass and Alice Munro’s Runaway (I know); picking up my daughter from her weeklong trip studying tree rings and climate change in Mammoth Lakes, CA; and taking to the streets to voice some concerns about the current state of things.
October 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Finishing David Blight’s Frederick Douglass and Alice Munro’s Runaway (I know); picking up my daughter from her weeklong trip studying tree rings and climate change in Mammoth Lakes, CA; and taking to the streets to voice some concerns about the current state of things.
Apologies in advance.
October 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Apologies in advance.
Thandiwe Newton's reading of War and Peace is monumental!
October 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thandiwe Newton's reading of War and Peace is monumental!
Listening to Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel and brushing up on The Black Keys and Gary Clark Jr. for a show in two weeks.
August 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Listening to Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel and brushing up on The Black Keys and Gary Clark Jr. for a show in two weeks.
Plaintiff's counsel. I was referring back to the headline, which seems to suggest that the issue of counterfeiting is raised by the complaint.
July 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Plaintiff's counsel. I was referring back to the headline, which seems to suggest that the issue of counterfeiting is raised by the complaint.
To be fair, counterfeiting is not alleged in the complaint.
July 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
To be fair, counterfeiting is not alleged in the complaint.