December 14, 2015

Earlier this year, MobyLives wrote about Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s efforts to purge mosque libraries of “any book, irrespective of its author or publishing house, that contradicts the teachings of… Read more »

Censorship

Chinese translation of Indian poet draws criticism from state and scholars alike — Chad Felix
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
PEN urges Chinese government to free dissident poets Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia — Chad Felix

Serial scammers prey on aspiring authors with fraudulent publishing services

Liam O'Brien

In the latest dispatch from the world of publishing fraud, a California couple has pled not guilty after being charged with, among other things, a publishing services scam that allegedly netted them $300,000.… Read more »

Reading with the stars: New bookstore only stocks books picked by celebs

Kait Howard

The editor-in-chief of Out magazine and founder of Grand Editorial, Aaron Hicklin, has just started a new venture: One Grand, a bookstore that only stocks titles handpicked by Tilda Swinton, Lena Dunham, Michael Pollan, Edmund White, and… Read more »

Books-A-Million goes back to privacy

Simon Reichley

Times are tough for the chain booksellers, apparently—the last tumultuous decade in book selling has seen the disappearance of Borders as well as a relentlessly diminishing Barnes & Noble franchise, and now Publishers Weekly… Read more »

Excerpt: Philip K. Dick’s Last Interview

Melville House

This collection of conversations with Philip K. Dick—on sale tomorrow—ranges from his very first interview, when he was just a 26-year-old kid from Berkeley, to the last, conducted the day before he suffered… Read more »

Melville House Books

Egypt continues crackdown on novelist Alaa Al Aswany

Ena Brdjanovic