Two members resign from committee established to reform Nobel prize for literature
Two people have resigned from a committee that was established to oversee reforms to the Swedish Academy’s Nobel prize for literature. This puts the net resignation count for any committees… Read more »
Algorithms used to determine how much of “Henry VIII” Shakespeare actually wrote
You’ve got to love reading also-ran Elizabethan dramatists. Sometimes, if you’ve huffed too much cynicism about Great Men in the Literary Canon, you can start to convince yourself that Shakespeare… Read more »
This week in fraud: fake children’s books used to boost campaign finances
We are living in something of a golden age of fraud. It seems in the past four years, we’ve become acquainted with every permutation of misdeed involving a country in… Read more »
Success! Charlotte Brontë mini book secured by the Brontë Society
As we’ve previously discussed, a small piece of juvenalia by a 14-year-old Charlotte Brontë recently came back on the market, and the Brontë Society, who support and operate the Brontë… Read more »
I love the smell of old books in the morning… smells like… book preservation
Ahhh, the smell of old books. Something people love to brag about loving. (Why yes, we’ve gotten product recommendations for old-book-scented soy candles on a certain Internet megastore that shall… Read more »
Amazon slashing orders to publishers just in time for the holidays
Publishers Weekly reports that Amazon has been cutting book orders to book publishers over the last several weeks. Jim Milliot reports: It isn’t clear how widespread the reduction in orders… Read more »
Cancel culture cited in tepid sales of Mark Halperin’s new book
“Cancel culture,” a neologism that has been gaining ever accelerating traction in the last two or three years, has been cited once again in completely nonsensical manner. The term, which… Read more »
Phillip Roth left a substantial part of his estate to the Newark Public Library
In heartwarming bit of library news, famed, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Phillip Roth has left $2 million of his $10 million estate to the Newark Public Library, the Wall Street Journal reports.… Read more »
Top 10 quotes for Patricia Highsmith’s soon-to-be-released diaries
Your faithful blogger here at MobyLives briefly considered writing a thoughtful entry on the moral and ethical issues of the posthumous publication of a famous person’s diaries. The peg would… Read more »
Karl Ove Knausgaard to contribute to the future library
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Norwegian author of the six-volume My Struggle saga, has become the sixth author to sign onto the Future Library project. The project, brain-child of Scottish artist Katie… Read more »