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Is Amazon censoring Hachette authors? Authors United seems to think so. And Ursula Le Guin agrees. When asked why she had joined Authors United, Le Guin told The New York Times “We’re talking about censorship: deliberately making a book… Read more »

UPDATE: Barnes & Noble is not closing its Bronx store after all.  As reported in the New York Times, the Bronx now has no bookstore. (No disrespect to The Lair—for purposes… Read more »

Earlier this week, Capital New York reported on a new partnership between the New York Review of Books and Vice News. Capital is an excellent publication (full disclosure: I have… Read more »

This week is the eighth annual Open Access Week, and that means confetti! No, actually, it means something much better than that: a week of discussions about the great and… Read more »

In the late 1800’s, JM Barrie spent five years at the Dumfries Academy in southwest Scotland, and later credited the bucolic location with inspiring his classic children’s story Peter Pan.… Read more »

In the last twelve months, MobyLives has brought you news of the new United States poet laureate, the new Irish literature laureate, and the short-lived North Carolina poet laureate. Here’s… Read more »