British foreign secretary steps in over missing Hong Kong booksellers
On Monday we reported that a fifth bookseller had gone missing in Hong Kong in what appears to be a move by the Chinese government to silence dissenting voices in… Read more »
Marco Rubio’s An American Son is a memoir, but is it also an ethics violation?
Florida senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio published his memoir, An American Son, in 2012, a year and a half into his first (and last) Senate term. The book—for which… Read more »
Public radio legend Diane Rehm announces her retirement
After a 30 year career that has allowed her to interview politicians, presidents, and cultural icons, public radio host Diane Rehm has announced that she’ll be retiring from her eponymous… Read more »
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami’s high school library records
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 »
FSG publishing anonymously authored Silicon Valley satire—all 18 pages of it
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 »
Are financial scammers really turning to Neil Strauss’ The Game for guidance?
In what is either a totally expected turn of events or the most left-field marketing campaign ever mounted, Neil Strauss’ infamous pickup-artist-Bible The Game has been linked to a pair of… Read more »
The best of the worst honored in this year’s Bad Sex Awards
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Literary Review has announced the finalists for the best literary prize around: the Bad Sex Awards. The Bad Sex Awards have taken… Read more »
Hopscotch—a mobile opera—channels the influence of Julio Cortázar
The Industry, a Los Angeles-based experimental opera company led by Yuval Sharon, will close its latest project, Hopscotch, on November 22nd. Hopscotch follows on the heels of Sharon’s similarly ambitious and similarly… Read more »
Can Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga save B&N?
Last week, the Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg reported on a new Barnes & Noble television commercial created by B&N chairman Leonard Riggio, starring Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett.… Read more »
George Will goes on The O’Reilly Factor to explain why O’Reilly’s book is “nonsensical”
Poor Bill O’Reilly can’t seem to catch a break. Last time we checked in with America’s most insecure blowhard, the writer and TV host was trying—unsuccessfully—to wage war against Publishers… Read more »