The Bible won’t be Tennessee’s official state book
The Tennessee Senate has voted against making the Bible the official state book. As reported here on Moby Lives, the measure was proposed by several weeks ago, and approved by the state’s… Read more »
What’s happened at Hesperus Press?
In 2002, the indie publisher Hesperus Press published Jonas Jonasson’s The 100-Year-Old Man Who Jumped Out of the Window and Disappeared, which went on to be a massive hit and… Read more »
News organizations enter “exclusive” arrangement with conservative author for his opposition research
In an unusual deal, three news organizations have entered into “exclusive” arrangements to pursue allegations contained in an upcoming book about the Clintons from a conservative author. Clinton Cash: The Untold… Read more »
You suckers don’t know your Magna Carta
Eight hundred years after the Archbishop of Canterbury drafted the peace treaty you never got around to reading, and King John of England agreed to it (knowing, somewhere in his… Read more »
Readers may binge, but they do not purge.
Last week, we asked if the groundswell of enthusiasm for series like Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, and Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy suggests that we’ve… Read more »
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