Oh, the Places Books Can Not Go, Because They Didn’t Deliver for 20 Years
Twenty years past, on some October date Grandmother Vera Walker did something great: She mail-ordered a present – some books, you’ll deduce, Penned by the incomparable, much-loved Dr. Seuss. But the… Read more »
Bookifying your hobbies! Next week: Literary Laser Tag?
Ah, scavenger hunts. Those events – like paintball, dinner boat cruises, and obstacle courses – that people strangely, briefly enjoyed 20 years ago until they were overtaken by corporate retreats and… Read more »
Rent the Runway, but for job interviews, courtesy of your public library
Ditch the career counselor. Grab a library card instead. According to Kristin Toussaint writing for New York Metro, one branch of the New York Public Library wants to help teens look… Read more »
Audits: They’re not just for Al Capone anymore!, Or, How the Carnegie Library got its books back
Great news for people who hate scumbag book thieves: the culprits of the Pittsburgh Carnegie Library book heist have finally been caught. As a devoted MobyLives reader, you’ll remember this… Read more »
The East Bay Express’s publisher resigns
The East Bay Express: Where #MeToo met up with #WhiteLivesMatter. Welcome to the sad, sad story of Stephen Buel, erstwhile publisher of the Express, an Oakland-based weekly newspaper specializing in investigative journalism… Read more »
Movies are basically just Books 2.0
No one should write anything original ever again, all day long, forever until the rapture. This, it seems, holds especially true for screenwriters. So says new research by the UK-based… Read more »
Maybe the children (and books) will save us after all?
Wow, what a week. What a month. What a year. What an eighteen months. We’re tired, you’re tired, and every single thing is on fire and babies are being ripped… Read more »
Dear Republicans, Don’t forget to proofread your shitty tax law unless you want to be, amazingly, even worse
The unequivocally great thing about 2017’s horrible Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is how it makes billionaires really fucking rich and the rest of us actually literally dead. But good news!… Read more »
You may now cock up your romance titles to your hearts’ delight
Whoa ho ho — not so cocksure now, are we, Faleena Hopkins? Last month, we wrote about romance writer and delusional word-copyrighter Faleena Hopkins, creator of the Cocker Brothers series of… Read more »
A retired AP English teacher is the new, and potentially best, hero of the resistance
Tom Paine. Rachel Carson. Howard Zinn. Yvonne Mason? Yes, resisters, let us welcome Mason to the ranks of Fabled American Protest Writers. Because if the former English teacher’s marked-up letter… Read more »