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From the That Didn’t Take Long Department: Just days after MobyLives reported on the furor that erupted over a deal between UK publisher Sceptre (an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton,… Read more »

MobyLives reported last week on Salman Rushdie’s public disparagement of Slumdog Millionaire. The details were fairly hazy at that point and many onlookers (for which, read gossips) were left craving… 12 / Read more »

The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad was one of the most successful books of recent years, translated into 30 languages and beloved by all — well, except for this… Read more »

What an amazing coincidence. Not one but two ‘lost’ works by revered writers have been relaunched this week. Alison Flood reports in the Guardian that Jack Kerouac’s first novel, The… Read more »