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The following post by Edward Jay Epstein, author of the forthcoming The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies (available from Melville House on February 23rd), is the… Read more »

The past New Year’s Day your Moby correspondent spent just over five hours at the 36th annual marathon poetry reading at St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery, dedicated this year… Read more »

Even as we become more and more comfortable in the digital realm, publishers and artists alike are still treasuring the book as art, perhaps more than ever.  Anouk Kruithof, a… Read more »

In an essay about the joys of “recognitions” in the recent collection The Education of a British-Protected Child, Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe details an anecdote from a bookseller’s convention, circa… Read more »