November 04, 2014 » MobyLives! Archives

Apparently frustrated by the rise in recent years of Splenda and the prominent role that Stevia played in the final season of Breaking Bad, artificial sweetener Sweet’N Low has found… Read more »

Publishing

Footballer Marcus Rashford's mum accepts Book of the Year award on his behalf — Tom Clayton
Oxford University Press pull Biff & Chip book over "scary" country pages — Tom Clayton
Book Aid For Ukraine auctions off publishing goodies raising relief funds — Nikki Griffiths
Fantasy author raises $25 million on Kickstarter to self-publish 4 new novels — Nikki Griffiths

Farewell, Glas, come back soon

Sal Robinson

“I thought the world will gasp with admiration.” This is how publisher Natasha Perova described what she thought would be the reaction to the first books by Glas, the Russian… Read more »

Inside the House Republican book club

Liam O’Brien

Paul S. Atkins doesn’t like book clubs because they’re too exclusive. He said as much in the testimony he gave in May to the House Financial Services Committee, where he argued… Read more »

Is Tom Hanks’s story collection about typewriters? A MobyLives investigation

Mark Krotov & Alex Shephard

Alex Shephard: Someone’s poisoned the water hole! Mark Krotov: This is not off to a great start, because I had to look up that reference and have not seen Toy… Read more »

The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure, Entry No. 1: Casimir Adamowitz-Kostrowicki

Just when you thought the greatest failures in the Western canon were lost forever… C.D. Rose rescues the stories of these authors and their best (worst?) works for definitive appreciation.… Read more »

R.L. Stine at McNally Jackson

Rachel Smitley

The crowded downstairs space at McNally Jackson Books in New York City on Thursday October 30, 2014 was a mismatched crowd of 20- and 30-somethings, and young elementary school children… Read more »

Melville House Books

November 4, 2014

New ebook features poorly written product placement

Nick Davies