January 08, 2016 » MobyLives! Archives

If the news that Reddit has published a coffee table book seems absurd to you, you’re probably not alone. Michael S. Rosenwald at The Washington Post reports that the entertainment/social networking site, which had about… 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

Nobel Prize archive reveals list of losers, including Borges, Nabokov, Neruda and more

Chad Felix

In 1965, the Swedish Academy selected the Soviet/Russian novelist Mikhail Sholokhov as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature—“for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of… Read more »

Emma Watson is launching a feminist book club

Zeljka Marosevic

On Tuesday, we asked Is Bill Gates the new Oprah? Today, we ask Is Emma Watson also the new Oprah, and maybe actually a better new Oprah? Ok, ok, enough… Read more »

And the most checked out book from the UN Library is…

Julia Fleischaker

Try and guess what the most popular book at the UN Library is…Go ahead, we’ll wait. … … … Did you guess a guide to, literally, getting away with murder?… Read more »

Melville House Books

January 8, 2016

Reddit publishes book, affirms print isn’t dead

Kait Howard