July 01, 2013 » MobyLives! Archives

It’s been a hell of a year for science fiction readers, with the death of a few greats—Iain M. Banks, Jack Vance, surely others I’m forgetting—and the release of some… Read more »

Authors

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Joanne Harris suggests some "parents, largely fathers" perceive reading as "girly" — Tom Clayton
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
Returning an ebook after reading: is Amazon's return policy damaging to authors and publishers? — Nikki Griffiths

Rausing responds: Granta “moving on”

Alex Shephard

On Friday, Granta’s online editor, Ted Hodgkinson, announced via Twitter that he was leaving the company to join the British Council. Hodgkinson had been at Granta for the last three… Read more »

New study shows that younger readers are more willing to pay for online content than older ones

Sal Robinson

So this is an interesting turn of events: according to a new study from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, the younger readers they polled across nine countries… Read more »

What is the state of contemporary poetry?

Emma Aylor

Harriet reports on a series of essays and reactions to the question of what some call “the state of American poetry.” The present conversation began with Mark Edmunson’s “Poetry Slam:… Read more »

Bay Area bookstores hosts “Kid Pride” drag queen storytime

Gearing up for San Francisco’s Pride weekend, independent bookstore Books, Inc. hosted an event the previous Saturday to broaden local kids’ horizons as well as offer them a fun storytime.… Read more »

Melville House Books

July 1, 2013

We live in the future—stop being a damn creep at science fiction conventions

Dustin Kurtz