UK science fiction author Stephen Hunt is proud to call himself a ‘genre’ author. Since the launch of World Book Night last month, he has spearheaded a campaign heavily criticising… 4 / Read more »
To the rest of the world, Tahrir Square has become more than simply a place symbolic of and synonymous with the recent revolution. I personally can’t even say the word… 1 / Read more »
As the official British correspondent for MobyLives, this weekend I attended the wonderful launch of World Book Night to report back to our readers on the festivities. The opening ceremony… 2 / Read more »
Of the many remarkable things to witness during the recent revolution in Egypt, perhaps what tipped the scales in favor of the opposition was something not entirely visible in Tahrir… Read more »
An anxiety prevalent in the analysis of the current democracy movements taking hold of the Middle East is the question regarding Islam’s role in the nascent governments. Will it be dominant?… Read more »
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, the narrative war between demonstrators in Iran and the government is in full effect. The clerical regime desperately wants to portray the… Read more »
For weeks there has been a war of narratives between the Green Movement and the clerical regime in Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the ayatollahs have been pushing this notion… Read more »
NaNoWriMo, the merry one-month novel writing marathon, has drawn to a close. 2,799,449,947 words were written. $665,018 was raised. Tens of thousands of “winners” completed 50,000+ word “novels.” Earlier… Read more »
While there are a lot of book conventions and festivals in the US, there are few to compare to Toronto’s Word on the Street Festival, a massive, sprawling affair that… 2 / Read more »
While recent reports detail the floundering state of book conventions in the US, this weekend marks the fifth anniversary of a book festival that’s more popular than ever: the Brooklyn… Read more »