March 09, 2016 » MobyLives! Archives

Barack Obama’s literary side has been on full display this past year. Following a two-part interview with Marilynne Robinson in which he discussed how literature shaped his understanding of what it means to… Read more »

Indie publishing

Geetanjali Shree becomes first Indian winner of International Booker Prize — Nikki Griffiths
Belgian publisher donates over a thousand books to railway station libraries — Tom Clayton
Little Toller and Bluemoose unite to aid Ukraine — Tom Clayton
"Bookcore" trend boggles; fashion fun? — Mike Lindgren

Computers don’t care about your MFA

Simon Reichley

Richard Jean So and Andrew Piper—“two professors of language and literature who regularly use computation to test common assumptions about culture”—have just published an essay in The Atlantic claiming to… Read more »

On women’s suffrage: “A string of nonsense to be stirred with a sharp knife”

Taylor Sperry

When American women were lobbying for the right to vote in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, they were often (and unsurprisingly) ridiculed for being “neglectful mothers and kitchen-hating harridans, busy… Read more »

Debuts lead in the Baileys Prize longlist

Zeljka Marosevic

The longlist for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. The annual award, which celebrates the best novels in English by women of any nationality, is this year… Read more »

Melville House Books

March 9, 2016

President Obama pens foreword to new Peanuts book

Kait Howard