March 07, 2016 » MobyLives! Archives

Last year’s publication of Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee’s mega-bestselling “second novel” (do what you will those quotation marks!), was the big publishing story of 2015. MobyLives covered it… Read more »

Adaptations

"Millennium hand and shrimp!" Discworld audiobooks get star-studded re-record — Tom Clayton
Bond returns to our screens in 2021 ... and our shelves in 2022 — Tom Clayton
Little Miss Brave and Mr Calm announced in Matt Lucas-fronted Mr Men doc — Tom Clayton
Will the screen adaptation of "Dune" live up to readers' expectations? — Allison Green

Literary series that pays finds new home at Joe’s Pub

Kait Howard

In publishing, book events are often viewed with varying levels of ambivalence. Dustin Kurtz once wrote on MobyLives that, “It’s a trope of the book world that readings are boring,… Read more »

Short story collection smuggled out of North Korea to be published in English

Soojung Anna Kim

A collection of short stories titled The Accusation by pseudonymous North Korean writer 반디 Bandi (“firefly”) is set for publication in English and several other languages beginning in Spring 2017.… Read more »

Ask a bookseller—Tom Beans from Dudley’s Bookshop Café

Melville House

In life, there are always big questions. But where can you find the big answers? From your local indie bookseller, of course! In this monthly feature, some of our favorite… Read more »

Melville House Books

March 7, 2016

Harper Lee’s will is now as mysterious as her second novel

Mark Krotov