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The man who threatened to eat a copy of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird if everyone on Kelleys Island in Ohio didn’t read it (see this earlier MobyLives report)… 2 / Read more »

A rare first edtion, first print run of Charles Darwin’s Origin of a Species has been auctioned off in Norfolk, England for £35,000. Only 1,250 copies of Darwin’s influential masterpiece… Read more »

Here’s a novel idea for a charity event. The French website ActuaLitté reports that the publisher “Les Éditions Les 400 Coups has launched a campaign in partnership with The Breakfast… Read more »

John Michell, the British countercultural writer who came to fame in the sixties with a book connecting flying saucers to King Arthur, and went on to write a series of… Read more »