June 01, 2016 » MobyLives! Archives

David Mitchell casts a vote of confidence in the future, delivers manuscript to the Future Library Project

Chad Felix

About this time last year, we reported that Margaret Atwood had handed in her latest manuscript—and that it wouldn’t be published until 2114. News to which you may have responded,… 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

Susan Brind Morrow talks like an Egyptian

Ian Dreiblatt

It is a truth universally hailed by science that Ancient Egypt is the best. While the swirling sands of time have obscured much about the Egyptians, we continue to remember them as… Read more »

Book-to-Broadway: American Psycho flops

Despite the elaborate production, timely critique of late capitalism, and conspicuously buff cast, the Broadway adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho—which proved so controversial to readers in the… Read more »

Throwing the book at ’em: publishers in court

Ryan Harrington

Graham Jules, a forty-eight-year-old British entrepreneur, prevailed this week in a two-year-plus intellectual property struggle with Marvel and DC comics. The two publishers, who sued Jules to prevent his self-publishing a book called Business Zero to Superhero on the grounds… Read more »

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June 1, 2016