Early next month, indie booksellers around the country are going to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, and Judith Rosen reports for Publishers Weekly that New York stores are planning their own… Read more »

As you might have heard, Amazon is opening up shop in New York City, with an office/warehouse (where customers can pick up purchases made online) at a space across the… Read more »

The Center for an Urban Future (CUF) released a lengthy report last week that details the issues facing New York City’s various library branches and how to address them, Lisa… Read more »

Brooklyn Public Library’s unanimous vote on Tuesday to approve a 52 million dollar sale of the Brooklyn Heights Branch to developer Hudson Companies was met with outrage from Citizens Defending Libraries, the… Read more »

Loyal readers know that MobyLives has quite the penchant for nudity. Recent examples include a nude French book cover, a nude French children’s book, and nude French booksellers protesting censorship… Read more »

As a habitual conceiver of overly ambitious, but really exciting-sounding projects, one of the ones I’ve been most disappointed in never quite getting around to was the project to learn… Read more »

Media coverage of the ongoing fight for gay rights reached a fever pitch last week as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases which will determine the future… Read more »

For all those who love Lorca’s paen to the city, Poet In New York, the New York Public Library will soon be hosting an exhibition, “Back Tomorrow: Federico García Lorca… Read more »