July 08, 2015 » MobyLives! Archives

When William Blake’s cottage hit the market in July 2013, a handful of writers began to imagine the space as “a house of refuge for persecuted writers.” Rather than a… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Lost Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for $1.25 million — Nikki Griffiths
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths

Melville House at the American Library Association Conference in San Francisco

Claire Kelley

Melville House Publisher Dennis Johnson and Director of Library & Academic Marketing Claire Kelley attended the American Library Association Annual Conference from June 26-29 in San Francisco at the Moscone… Read more »

Man Booker International Prize and Independent Foreign Fiction Prize evolve into all powerful super prize (still known as Man Booker International Prize)

Alex Shephard

The Man Booker International Prize, which was previously awarded every other year, will now become an annual event. This “evolution” is being made possible, in part, by merger of the Man… Read more »

The other man behind “The Red Wheelbarrow”

Taylor Sperry

His red wheelbarrow might be the most famous gardening tool in American poetry, but Thaddeus Marshall, the man who inspired William Carlos Williams’s classic poem “The Red Wheelbarrow,” had been… Read more »

Dynamite reveals details on upcoming James Bond comics

Nick Davies

Pop culture figures making the leap to comic books is an established phenomenon: properties such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bob’s Burgers, Predator, and many others have been turned into… Read more »

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July 8, 2015

Authors host night at Waterstones Piccadilly to save William Blake’s cottage

Kirsten Reach