Less than a week after being named poet laureate of North Carolina, self-published poet Valerie Macon has resigned from the post. As we reported on Moby Lives, her appointment caused… Read more »

Governor of North Carolina Pat McCrory is in deep trouble with the state’s literary community this week, after picking a self-published writer as the poet laureate, especially since he made… Read more »

Amazon, a company intent on making the plot of Minority Report a reality in our lifetime, will begin to collect sales tax in North Carolina on February 1st. of this year The… Read more »

This week in irony: A school board in North Carolina has decided to erase Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man from its reading lists and library shelves following a parental complaint which… Read more »

Last year, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association initiated a program, Muslim Journeys, intended to provide libraries across the country with a collection of books… Read more »