Buttering up Laura Ingalls Wilder for her birthday
Among the attractions at this year’s Iowa State Fair—which traditionally features a six-hundred-pound “butter cow” along with “companion sculptures” that have included everything from “a tribute to the 40th anniversary… Read more »
Protestors flock to shorelines around the world to honor Liu Xiaobo
We’ve been reporting on the dissident Chinese writer and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo at MobyLives since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. In 2008, Liu was sentenced… Read more »
James Comey is shopping a book; also, impeachment
Now that he has some spare time on his hands, former FBI director James Comey—who was suddenly, unceremoniously dismissed from his post in May—is apparently shopping a book proposal around… Read more »
White House operatives are preparing a major smear campaign aimed at discrediting journalists
In keeping with the administration’s, uh, tenuous relationship with the media, the Trump White House has indicated it will be embarking on a campaign to undermine journalists who have reported on… Read more »
Treat yourself (and the Public Theater) with a Shake-speare shake
The PR folks at Bank of America and Delta Airlines were apparently so nervous about the Trumpian depiction of Julius Caesar in last month’s Shakespeare in the Park production that… Read more »
“Hell hath no fury like a fashion editor fired”
The fashion set has been “abuzz” this week after the “news of an incendiary interview with Lucinda Chambers, the former British Vogue fashion director,” who was dismissed from the magazine… Read more »
JetBlue & Random House are at it again, this time in Florida
This is a map of Book Deserts in the United States. You’ll notice that the reddest (driest?) spots—where the estimated percentage of homes with more than 100 books is between… Read more »
Publishers are banding together to take on a logging company over free speech
While writers and agents and publishers and scouts and readers and booksellers flocked to the Javits Center for BookExpo earlier this month, a petition signed by more than 100 authors… Read more »
The ceiling in the Rose Reading Room is broken again
After a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling of the New York Public Library’s iconic Rose Reading Room in 2014, the space was closed off for a staggering two-and-a-half… Read more »
Books by Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. are up for auction in the Netherlands
“That little book had such an impact… It changes the course of history.” That’s Mary-Jane Deeb, chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress on… Read more »