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An Associated Press report says Chinese poet and novelist Liao Yiwu has been barred from leaving China to participate in Cologne’s international literary festival, Europe’s largest festival of its kind.… Read more »

Over a year ago MobyLives ran a report on a man who walked into the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. with a Shakespeare folio he said he’d found while… Read more »

Barry Hannah, a famously hard-living writer who wrote darkly eloquent and funny stories about hard-living people in the South, has died at his home in Oxford, Mississippi. According to an… Read more »

There are supposed to be shelves of books in the basement of the British Library, right? Except look closely at these particular bookshelves by artist Patrick Hughes. There are virtual… Read more »