Former New York governor Mario Cuomo has settled a $15 million libel suit he filed against Greg Palast and his publisher, Penguin Putnam imprint Plume, over statements Palast made in… Read more »
Almost a month ago, Alex Beam wrote about Foetry.com in his Boston Globe column (see the MobyLives news digest for 31 March). Beam noted that the website had “chided” local… Read more »
Charges have been filed in Turkey against novelist Orhan Pamuk telling a Swiss newspaper that “30,000 Kurds and 1 million Armenians had been killed in Turkey,” which is “a statement… Read more »
A lawsuit being brought against bestselling novelist James Patterson by an ex-girlfriend for breach of contract and copyright infringement—and for stealing her ideas—has been allowed to proceed, according to a… Read more »
The mother of a young man “murdered by racists” has won a libel case against a book published by Time-Life in England, according to a Guardian report by Hugh Muir.… Read more »