B&N joins forces with superstar attorney to explain the obvious to the DOJ in a blunt, exhilarating letter Enough already about the BEA, an event held in New York City last week where a big chunk of the book industry stood around talking about Amazon and brooding over… 5 / Read more »
MobyLives’ coverage of the DOJ lawsuit
Operation What? Code names, new and old Ah, code names! As readers of Trevor Paglen’s I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me know, there’s nothing like squirreling around in the… 1 / Read more »
Celebrating the novella, all month long The Emerging Writers Network is 11 days into its “Novella Month” campaign, which celebrates the novella as a literary genre and highlights contemporary as well as classic examples of this,… Read more »
No Plath + no Heaney = 35,000 panicked Irish students It’s a wonder we couldn’t hear the panicked riffling of papers from New York. On Thursday of last week, 35,000 Irish students sat for their English lit Leaving Certificate paper,… Read more »
Canadian IP lobby gives SOPA a try Canada’s leading intellectual property lobby, the Canadian IP Council (CIPC), seems to be eagerly following the US down the SOPA rabbit hole. On his blog, IP law professor at the… Read more »
2012′s Commonwealth Short-Story Prize winners How do employers really feel about social media? An extra hour of David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” James Brown felt good about his egomania Revolutionizing the… Read more »