Grimms’ Fairy Tales, now with 100% more guns
Have you ever wondered how Hansel and Gretel would have turned out had the brother and sister been taught about gun safety and how to use firearms? No? Of course, not?… Read more »
Michael Mann shopping book imprint to publishers
Continuing this week’s trend of movie writer/directors veering into publishing—Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr reports that lauded director Michael Mann is looking to launch his own imprint. The imprint is actually a bit of a… Read more »
Whit Stillman annotates, adapts, and “vindicates” Jane Austen’s Lady Susan
Last week Katherine Cowdrey reported for The Bookseller that writer/director Whit Stillman is publishing a new novel based on Jane Austen’s Lady Susan. Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen’s Lady Susan Vernon Is… Read more »
Russian Institute of Health and Hygiene is policing children’s books for sex, drugs, and italics
Back in 2010, Russia passed a series of laws aimed at protecting the innocence and purity of children. One law in particular—titled “On Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development”—limited… Read more »
Bios of famous male scientists had they been female scientists
Previously, we wrote about #realacademicbios—a trending hashtag that caused a stir in the Twitter circles of academia after Eva Mrozcek, an assistant professor of religious studies at UC Davis, tweeted: “Tradition of (mostly… Read more »
Scholastic halts distribution of children’s book about George Washington’s enslaved cook, or as they call him: “the first celebrity chef in America”
The New York Times’s Liam Stack reports that following “outcry over its visual depiction of the former president’s slaves as happy, smiling workers,” Scholastic Publishing has announced that they will stop distribution of A… Read more »
Mein Kampf, published in Germany for the first time since 1945, sells out instantly
We’ve previously written about the plans of the Institute of Contemporary History (ICHB) in Munich to publish a 2,000 page, two-volume academic edition of Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf. In anticipation of the expiration of a copyright that… Read more »
Oxford marks Charlie Hedbo anniversary by translating French anthology on tolerance
In January of last year, some two-hundred and fifty years after it was initially published, Voltaire’s Treatise on Tolerance sold out at newspaper kiosks across France—the work was excerpted and included in Tolérance: le combat… Read more »
Egypt continues crackdown on novelist Alaa Al Aswany
Earlier this year, MobyLives wrote about Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s efforts to purge mosque libraries of “any book, irrespective of its author or publishing house, that contradicts the teachings of… Read more »
FSG publishing anonymously authored Silicon Valley satire—all 18 pages of it
In June of this year, MobyLives wrote about Iterating Grace, a 2,001 word chapbook making fun of, while making its way around, Silicon Valley. Now, according to Alexandra Alter at The… Read more »