White supremacists storm reading of Dying of Whiteness at Politics and Prose
Last Saturday, politics and prose came to a head at, appropriately enough, DC bookstore Politics and Prose. Vanderbilt Professor and Psychiatrist Jonathan Metzel was reading from his new book Dying… Read more »
An online petition to stop Brexit crashes government website due to sheer number of supporters.
You know that feeling before an exam, of sheer panic and anxiety in the pit of your stomach? The dread of realising your coursework is due in and it’s nowhere… Read more »
Book piracy is a real problem—and it could affect you
Harry Potter without The Deathly Hallows. Game of Thrones without A Dream of Spring. The Trainspotting saga without (shameless plug) Dead Men’s Trousers. What if your favorite series was cancelled before… Read more »
The guy in charge of keeping undocumented youth detained is writing an anti-abortion book
If you keep up with the infuriating news about the Trump administration’s statements and actions against immigrants and refugees, then you are probably familiar with the name Scott Lloyd? The… Read more »
Good people send books and money to Iowa library to replace burned LGBTQ books
Last week we shared the most recent news about Iowa’s Orange City Library (there have been a few stories over the past year): local resident Paul Dorr revealed himself as… Read more »
A grown man in Iowa burned LGBTQ children’s books and live-streamed it on Facebook
Something is rotten in the state of Iowa. As we reported back in February of this year, homophobes petitioned to have books with LGBTQ themes removed from general circulation at… Read more »
A feminist book display is controversially dismantled by retail giant Topshop
Low and behold, it appeared in all its pink glory on publication morning, October 4th. But just twenty minutes later, it had vanished.… Read more »
Intellectual show-offs and other insufferable book customers
Today we will cover the five worst kinds of bookstore customers, as told by Shaun Bythell, author of The Diary of a Bookseller. Don’t be one of them. 1. The self-proclaimed… 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 »
As ICE detains a Latinx reporter in Memphis, a community tries to stay informed
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE, is a cruel and predatory organization that has recently focused its efforts on keeping immigrant children separate from their parents. We’ve all… Read more »