Phillip Roth left a substantial part of his estate to the Newark Public Library
In heartwarming bit of library news, famed, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Phillip Roth has left $2 million of his $10 million estate to the Newark Public Library, the Wall Street Journal reports.… Read more »
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 »
Suprise! More layoffs at New Jersey newspapers after Gannett buyout
As we’ve written, in the newspaper industry, buyouts by Gannett Company, Inc. have become synonymous with job losses. Paper after paper across the country has seen layoffs after being acquired by Gannett,… Read more »
Amazon shows New Jersey a thing or two about traffic
The fury of activity and commerce that constitutes Amazon holiday fulfillment means frenzied business as usual for those intimately involved in the retail giant’s warehouse division. The company hires thousands of part-time workers… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: How banned are the banned books?
Topics discussed: National Basketball Association, podcasts, In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg, You Must Remember This, Charles Manson, Karina Longworth, President Obama, WTF with Marc Maron, The Bugle, John Oliver, The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, W.… Read more »
Tuesday Arnoux’s Beaked Whales
This August, as we prepare to unleash a truly remarkable fall catalog, MobyLives will be taking a bit of a breather. We’ll still post the occasional news item or feature,… Read more »
WORD Bookstore opening a Jersey City location
Independent bookstore WORD has been a fixture in Greenpoint neighborhood for almost six years now, a bastion of literary culture in Brooklyn’s northernmost neighborhood. Now it looks like they’re setting their… Read more »