Four employees of a Hong Kong publisher known for criticizing Chinese regime are missing
MobyLives has previously written about the challenges faced by publishers and booksellers located in—and friendly with—Hong Kong: everything from decade-long prison sentences, retaliation from distributors, and mainland censorship of any books (even seemingly innocuous… Read more »
Two For Tuesday: Should Books Be Snackable, Serialized, and Delicious?
Topics discussed: Tim Parks, length, reader feedback (write to us!), Michael Schaub, Ben Carson, thinkpieces, Hillary Kelly, The Way We Publish Now, serialization, cookie cutting (metaphorically), Jonathan Franzen, Harper Lee,… Read more »
Gay Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina makes the Time 100
In January, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina came out as gay, following the passage of a wave of anti-gay laws in Africa. Having grown up in a country where homosexuality is… Read more »
Which drugs and diseases are on YOUR library books?
Here’s one to file under the Gross Yet Somehow Unsurprising section in your mental filing cabinet. We all heard last year about the horrors of bedbugs in libraries, but two… Read more »
The history of gay rights according to magazine covers
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 »