June 09, 2016 » MobyLives! Archives

Established in 1998, the Inside Books Project is a volunteer-run organization based in Austin, Texas dedicated to providing free books and other educational materials to the state’s 140,000 incarcerated individuals.… Read more »

Jerks

Disgraced former health minister in talks to publish new book How I Won the Covid War — Nikki Griffiths
Cancelled Philip Roth biography finds a new publisher while author is accused of sexual assault — Nikki Griffiths
Racist colouring book distributed publicly by far right German political party AfD — Nikki Griffiths
Trump administration tries to stop funding libraries ... again — Andréa Córdova

Book vending machines spread charmingly to Singapore

Liam O’Brien

If you’ve been paying attention, you know that we are big fans of people buying books. And while we always prefer that those people buy those books from their local… Read more »

Recycling has been cool since at least the fifteenth century

Taylor Sperry

When Johannes Gutenberg emerged on the scene of fifteenth-century Europe with the invention for which he is remembered, the printing press (or, more exactly, movable type), two things happened: the manuscript copying that had… Read more »

All aboard the Hogwarts Express! Harry Potter is back…

Nikki Griffiths

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the long-awaited stage play that will continue J.K. Rowling’s hugely popular, seven-book Harry Potter franchise, previewed this week at London’s Palace Theatre, and has been declared a resounding… Read more »

Melville House Books

June 9, 2016

Austin-based nonprofit is robbed of hundreds of books it had planned to send to prisoners

Chad Felix