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David Carr of the New York Times ticked off an intriguing tweet yesterday concerning Brett Anderson, a journalist at the New Orleans Times-Picayune: Turns out Anderson, a restaurant critic, got the… 1 / Read more »

There have been major debates over book-pricing in Israel lately, as recently covered in a MobyLives report. And this week brought some news: a bill that would limit discounting and… Read more »

There’s yet more help out there for those of us with no self-discipline. Aherk is a “goal-oriented self-blackmailing service” (still in beta) that functions under the premise that fear of… 1 / Read more »

As reported earlier on MobyLives, British education secretary, Michael Gove, has brought forward a new national  curriculum—one that includes the mandatory learning of a foreign language as early as seven… 1 / Read more »

Student loans got you down? Move to Kansas NYC’s memorial service for Maurice Sendak NBA finals poses challenge for copy editors The newest salvos in the Mommy Wars The best… Read more »