June 16, 2015 » MobyLives! Archives

The New Yorker sheds new light on Senator Dianne Feinstein’s struggle to release the torture report—and the Obama Administration’s resistance to it

It’s been six months since the release of the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture (and Melville House’s publication of the report in book form), yet… Read more »

Censorship

Chinese translation of Indian poet draws criticism from state and scholars alike — Chad Felix
Egypt continues crackdown on novelist Alaa Al Aswany — Ena Brdjanovic
Has anyone in the White House read the Senate Torture Report? — Mark Krotov
Tea Party chair calls for UN fund-raising book by Kermit the Frog to be banned — Taylor Sperry

What Would Leopold Bloom Do?

Josh Cook

Complex and confusing, filled with words you don’t know and people you don’t understand, life is even more difficult to navigate than Ulysses, but luckily, we have Ulysses to help… Read more »

You don’t get paid unless people actually read your book: the new Kindle Unlimited royalties

Kirsten Reach

This July, Amazon is changing the way it pays authors for books in Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. In short, it’s paying the authors a royalty based… Read more »

College student calls for graphic books ban on campus

Nick Davies

A college student in California has lodged a rather baffling complaint against her school and a professor there, calling for a ban on certain graphic novels being taught in courses.… Read more »

The Fake Scholastic Swindler pleads guilty

Liam O'Brien

The long, sad story of the Scholastic School Swindler has taken a big step towards its conclusion. Robert S. Armstrong, who devised a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of… Read more »