November 09, 2015 » MobyLives! Archives

We at MobyLives love to write about books written by presidential candidates. We’ve written about how they’re mandatory, how they have great titles, and how they contain fabricated quotations from the founding… 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

Chilean government announces definitively that Pablo Neruda was murdered, maybe

Chad Felix

In 2011, Manuel Araya, Pablo Neruda’s driver, told the Mexican magazine Proceso that—as we reported—it was not prostate cancer alone that killed the Nobel Prize-winning poet in 1973. No, Araya… Read more »

Okay, okay: Orwell was no Byron

Kait Howard

Last month, despite apparent reservations, The Orwell Society decided to publish a slim volume of 42 little-known poems written by George Orwell. The poems were written over a 35-year span, from… Read more »

Houghton Mifflin partners with Weber Grills, inaugurating new era of publisher-brand collaboration

Mark Krotov

What’s the central threat to the domestic publishing industry? Is it overproduction? Is it Google Books? Is it the United States government’s consistent willingness to define consumer interest in a… Read more »

Building the better bookshelf

Simon Reichley

Does the number of books in your home worry you? Do you lose track of the books you’re most interested in? Well, sir/madame, behold the single book bookshelf: Finally, you can present a… Read more »

Melville House Books

November 9, 2015

Ben Carson’s books: Fiction? Nonfiction? Does it matter?

Liam O’Brien