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Will Fifty Shades of Grey double Random House’s profits? Random House USA has sold nearly 20 million books in E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, according to a Wall Street Journal report by Jeffrey Trachtenberg. The books—which went… Read more »
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An unwritten masterpiece MobyLives recently reported on the new espionage in literature: Amazon and other ebook-sellers harvesting information about our reading habits and passing it to publishers, some of whom use it to… Read more »
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Soon the internet will read you I hope you haven’t been doing anything naughty with your internet connection, because very soon, if all goes to plan, your internet service provider (ISP) may pre-emptively monitor your account,… Read more »
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The efficient new way to pay Margaret Atwood to sketch your dog Margaret Atwood, beloved writer, and self-appointed high priestess of the science fictional, has just launched a campaign on crowd-funding site Indiegogo to help fund a new venture called Fanado. Fanado… Read more »
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This little piggy went for £60,000 An extremely rare set of watercolors by Beatrix Potter was auctioned off at Sotheby’s in London today, for a whopping £60,000, or about $95,000. The set of four watercolors (on… Read more »
- Day in Review
Feeling gipped by the lack of scandal involved in this year’s Bachmann Prize? Mind, matter, abstract ideas More eccentric: artists or art collectors? Hitchens on Orwell, again This novel kills… Read more »
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Amazon pulls controversial Caravaggio book The bad-boy painter of the Italian Baroque has stirred up trouble again. As a report from the Daily Telegraph explains, “A controversial new book in which two Italian art historians… Read more »
