April 04, 2014 » MobyLives! Archives

The Guardian reports that Carol Ann Duffy, Britain’s poet laureate, and authors Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, and Mark Haddon have requested a meeting with Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Lost Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for $1.25 million — Nikki Griffiths
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths

How the New York Public Library is bringing old maps to the present

Claire Kelley

The New York Public Library’s Map Division has published more than 20,000 historical maps online, which are available for browsing and downloading in high resolution. It has now also launched… Read more »

“Goodreads for kids” to spawn terrifying legions of underage book reviewers

Sal Robinson

This is the day the embattled field of book criticism has long feared… the day it’ll be taken over by swarms of opinionated amateurs with an international platform and no… Read more »

The secret to James Bond’s chauvinism lies in Ian Fleming’s letters

Zeljka Marosevic

Pussy Galore, Holly Goodhead, Chew Mee… the names of female characters in James Bond novels tell you a great deal about the author Ian Fleming’s attitudes to women: he thought… Read more »

Russell Brand to write “Trickster Tales,” wants to change “the way children see the world”

Julia Fleischaker

Russell Brand is already a bestselling author, of memoirs Booky Wook and Booky Wook 2. (In fact, the last time we checked in on him, those books were being banned from… Read more »

Melville House Books

April 4, 2014

Lots o’ famous authors demand meeting with UK Justice head over book ban

Kirsten Reach