Slough of despond . . .
Dennis Johnson
In England, “A Sikh couple had to abandon their wedding when a group of protesters raided the Slough hotel where the event was being held and seized a holy book,”… Read more »
In England, “A Sikh couple had to abandon their wedding when a group of protesters raided the Slough hotel where the event was being held and seized a holy book,”… Read more »
Another angle on the attack by Ed Klein against Hillary Clinton that got little attention amongst all the right wing commentators knocking Klein last week comes from Tina Brown, who,… Read more »
The literary estate of Antoine de Saint-Exupery has “won a cybersquatting case to evict a Virgin Islands operator whose Web Site sells memorabilia linked to the creator of The Little… Read more »
When word leaked last week (in a Women’s Wear Daily report) that Steve Florio, the former longtime CEO of the Condé Nast magazine empire, was shopping a book proposal, “it… Read more »
The novel supposedly written by Saddam Hussein, Get Out of Here, Damned One (see last week’s MobyLives news digest), has been banned from publication in Jordan “on the grounds that… Read more »
“I think it’s a first,” says Andre Schiffrin, longtime head of Pantheon Books and founder of the New Press. He’s talking about Alan Dershowitz’s effort to get California Governor Arnold… Read more »
“The Paris literary scene was shaken yesterday when the government’s anti-corruption watchdog warned that France’s most prestigious book prizes were wide open to corruption,” according to a Guardian report by… Read more »
In Scotland to accept the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, “Albanian dissident and author Ismail Kadare said Monday that his small victories in smuggling work out of his homeland inspired… Read more »