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Beautiful building in Albuquerque NM - snagged this photo from Dennis Johnson on Twitter @mobylives 

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As a culture, we build up female celebrities, politicians, and public figures of any kind, only to turn heel and tear them down --- often with glee. We chalk this up to the starlet buckling under pressure, or rotting from overexposure. Please do read Sady Doyle’s…

On the identity of Elena Ferrante—and what Trainwreck has got to do with it.

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Here's how you pull off a multimillion-dollar e-book scam » MobyLives

The secret to getting rich in the bookselling business is to sell lots of books. Big house publishing and most bookstores rely on gargantuan sales from a handful of tentpole books to keep the lights on, but you can always…

“The way Shershnyov made his money isn’t unfamiliar to anyone who’s seen The Wolf Of Wall Street or committed financial crimes; it’s essentially a “pump and dump” scheme“

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Read more books, live forever » MobyLives

The health benefits of reading books are many and varied. Among them are reduced stress, better relationships, more effective bullying, and now... longevity? For the New York Times, Nicholas Bakalar writes that a recent study conducted by researchers at Yale…

You thought you were just killing time, but really you were extending your stay.

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Hong Kong Book Fair ends in raid on obscene materials » MobyLives

Shortly after our recent piece on the close of the Hong Kong Book Fair ran, reports of a massive search and seizure by Hong Kong’s Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration (OFNAA) began to surface. According to a press release posted at the…

We recently reported that the atmosphere at this year’s Hong Kong Book Fair was “subdued” and anxious. Well, things quickly got much worse.

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Couple loses job after writing anti-Trump children’s book » MobyLives

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the jerks are at it again. Amy Graff at SFGate reports that their latest target are married couple Brad and Amy Herzog, who were recently fired from their long-time positions as spokespeople…

This week in jerks.

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Boston bookstore supports writers with new anthology » MobyLives

As Amazon encroaches ever further into the book business with their own publishing arm and, now, a slew of brick-and-mortar stores, there’s nothing more heartening than watching independent bookstores thinking outside the box, even in the smallest ways. Which is…

Boston’s Papercuts J.P. bookstore documents its first year with an anthology of new writing from authors who’ve read there.

It is good.

Bookstores are good.