September 05, 2014 » MobyLives! Archives

Forget the Neal Pollacks, the Hugh Howeys. Give me your Fitches, your Prestons, your huddled authors yearning to write free. Janet Fitch, author of the blockbusters White Oleander and Paint it Black, wants Jeff Bezos to know he… Read more »

Amazon

After removing its books from Amazon, children’s publisher reports record profits — Kait Howard
Amazon picks up The Last Tycoon adaptation, casts Kelsey Grammer in lead — Liam O'Brien
Book spotted in San Bernardino shooting suspects' home inspires Amazon review battle — Liam O'Brien
Amazon shows New Jersey a thing or two about traffic — Liam O'Brien

A hidden collection is unveiled at the Newberry Library

Christopher King

The Newberry Library, an independent research institution founded in Chicago in 1887, is home to a number of important collections, including materials on the Midwest, American Indian and Indigenous… Read more »

Lost Copernicus volume turns out not to be so lost after all

Sal Robinson

Good news, heliocentrists! A copy of Nicholas Copernicus’s 1543 De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, long thought lost in the fire that ravaged the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany ten years… Read more »

Tennessee Williams wrote D.H. Lawrence fan fiction (sort of)

Monika Zaleska

Ah, fan fiction. Do you prefer The Hunger Games or One Direction? How about a mash up? Apparently fan fiction’s not just an internet-era thing—it has a long history. An… Read more »

Melville House Books

September 5, 2014

Janet Fitch goes after “Mr. Bezos”

Kirsten Reach