A new plan for the NYPL?
Writer Caleb Crain here pushes hard for compromise on the New York Public Library’s Central Library Plan (which has been covered previously on MobyLives here, here, and here). In Crain’s… Read more »
Amazon launches her books, and Nancy Pearl says she wears a “disguise” to go into bookstores
Her series of books with Amazon has begun publication, but many booksellers are refusing to sell them, and to make matters worse things have remained so hostile that Nancy Pearl… 1 / Read more »
Darwin in motion
One of the cooler applications of new technologies to understanding the history of ideas I’ve run across lately is Ben Fry’s The Preservation of Favored Traces, which shows the changes… Read more »
The varying interpretations of The Great Gatsby Turns out kids with shorter attention spans to don’t like to read Alice Walker will not allow Hebrew version of The Color Purple… Read more »
Wes Anderson is making book trailers now?
Leave it to Wes Anderson to reverse engineer things, and make a book trailer for a movie — for books that only exist in the fictional universe of the movie.… Read more »
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