The ACLU is suing New Jersey after finding The New Jim Crow is banned in two of the state’s prisons
Busted. At least two prisons in New Jersey—the state that has, as Jon Swaine notes in the Guardian, the “widest disparity between white and black incarceration rates” in America—have banned inmates from reading… Read more »
You haven’t seen the last of Stephenie Meyer
We bet you thought you’d seen the last of Stephenie Meyer with Life and Death, her gender-swapped re-imagining of Twilight, the mega-hit YA series that made her famous. Life and… Read more »
Harper Lee’s will is now as mysterious as her second novel
Last year’s publication of Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee’s mega-bestselling “second novel” (do what you will those quotation marks!), was the big publishing story of 2015. MobyLives covered it… Read more »
Porn and the classics
And now for an important round-up of erotica, the driving force of the literary industry since the E.L. James spring of 2012, when publishers of all other types of literature… Read more »