December 03, 2015 » MobyLives! Archives

At the end of this month, Bavaria’s longstanding copyright of Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf expires. The German state was granted copyright by the Allies in the aftermath of World War II, and since then… Read more »

Academic publishing

“A time full of hope has been replaced by a time of fear”: Svetlana Alexievich delivers Nobel Lecture in Literature — Mark Krotov
French Booksellers Association releases reading list meant to shed light on Paris attacks — Kait Howard
200 South Korean professors to be indicted for plagiarism — Chad Felix
Germaine Greer's 30,000-word love letter to Martin Amis and his "tobacco hair" — Zeljka Marosevic

Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami’s high school library records

Liam O'Brien

As a library patron, the right to privacy is a hugely important one, and when violations of that privacy become public, librarians tend to get pretty angry. And they’ve had cause… Read more »

The Poetry of Trump

Taylor Sperry

Later this month, HarperCollins will publish reporter and humorist Hart Seely’s Bard of the Deal: The Poetry of Donald Trump, a book of poems crafted from interviews, speeches, and tweets… Read more »

FSG publishing anonymously authored Silicon Valley satire—all 18 pages of it

Ena Brdjanovic

In June of this year, MobyLives wrote about Iterating Grace, a 2,001 word chapbook making fun of, while making its way around, Silicon Valley. Now, according to Alexandra Alter at The… Read more »

Minimalist Tokyo bookstore stocks only one book each week

Kait Howard

There’s too much to read. This nagging anxiety afflicts everyone working in/for/around books at some point. And while it’s easy to see how luxurious a complaint it might be, it’s a… Read more »

Melville House Books

December 3, 2015

Mein Kampf to be published in Germany for the first time since 1945

Simon Reichley