[Maurice Girodias and Olympia Press]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Seventy years ago today the unconventional publisher Maurice Girodias published Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ for the first time. Historian Chris Owen does a deep dive to explain how he then became a […]

[Hubbard at his office in Saint Hill]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: By 1959, L. Ron Hubbard was feeling the pressure. He and Scientology were under investigation in the US, and he was increasingly concerned about breakaway groups. So that […]

[L. Ron Hubbard, horndog]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: L. Ron Hubbard’s earliest attempts to get the Scientology movement going were rocked by a series of booms and busts. And as a science fiction writer trying to enslave his fellow […]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Once again Scientology leader David Miscavige has had a giant tent put up at the church’s UK headquarters for next month’s IAS gala. So today, we’re celebrating Dave’s circus coming to town the best […]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Our helper who dives through old newspaper archives hit on another gem recently that we’ve told you about before, but we thought it was worth looking at it again for its great photos, which […]