Resourceful high school students score an interview with Defense Secretary James Mattis, and the kids make us proud
I love this story. After the Washington Post accidentally ran a photo that included the private cell number of Defense Secretary James Mattis, enterprising students at Mercer Island High School (near… Read more »
Go ahead and bring those Howard Zinn books on your vacation, the TSA doesn’t care
Last month, we reported on a story that the TSA was going to start taking an interest in what books you were carrying in your luggage. A new federal airport… Read more »
Thousands of rare books have been sold in Ireland, in the largest auction in decades
You’re reading MobyLives, so it’s a safe guess that you like books. Heck, you probably even think you love books. But, you don’t love books like Mary Colette McAlister did.… Read more »
Trump administration “shitcans” prison education reform project
Last year, the Obama administration hired Amy Lopez to spearhead an ambitious program meant to overhaul the prison education system. According to Ryan J. Reilly and Julia Craven at the… Read more »
Add this great story to the list of reasons you love librarians
Today’s feel-good story comes from Carolyn Johnson, librarian extraordinaire at Saint Francis International School in Silver Spring, Maryland. What did she do? Oh, she just collected 2,000 books (yes, that’s… Read more »
The parthenon of banned books has been built!
Back in November, we wrote about Argentine artist Marta Minujín’s plans to erect a “parthenon of banned books” as part of the documenta 14 art fair in Kassel, Germany. It… Read more »
What exactly is the point of interviewing Alex Jones?
She’s only been in the the job for a few weeks now, but Megyn Kelly, the bright future of our liberal media and newly minted star of NBC’s news programming,… Read more »
PRESS RELEASE: Melville House offers FREE ebook of torture report after Senate Republicans try to suppress it
Melville House has announced it is giving away free ebooks of its edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture after reports that the Republican head of the Senate… Read more »
National Willa Cather Center to open in Nebraska
Willa Cather, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books including Alexander’s Bridge, O Pioneers!, and My Antonia, has been voted “most-notable Nebraskan” by the state’s Lincoln Journal Star newspaper. Sixty-two years after it first opened in the… Read more »
Al Franken calls Ted Cruz “full of shit” in his new book, Cruz doesn’t appreciate it
Senator Al Franken has seen his stature rise in the age of Trump. The former SNL star and author of Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Liar has been at… Read more »