July 26, 2016

I was asked by a publication to keep a reading diary for four days, and those days happened to be while I was in Istanbul. The woman I spoke with… Read more »

Bookshelves

Shelf Wars: Ashley Tisdale buys 400 books to 'style' her home and Twitter explodes — Nikki Griffiths
Theories abound after anonymous return of Darwin's notebooks — Tom Clayton
"Wot, No Books?" Milton Keynes library saved after protesters check out its entire stock — Tom Clayton
Belgian publisher donates over a thousand books to railway station libraries — Tom Clayton

Third time’s a charm for The Bell Jar film?

Taylor Sperry

More than fifty years after its original publication, Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar is headed to the big screen (again). The first effort did not go well. The 1979… Read more »

When it comes to making a bestseller, algorithms are good, but money is better

Neil Balthaser, whose start-up Intellogo we’ve covered on MobyLives before, has heard about The Bestseller Code, the recent book by book-tech duo Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers that takes as its… Read more »

Doing it to do it: Donald Trump gets litigious with his former ghostwriter

Ian Dreiblatt

I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint… Read more »

Melville House Books

Istanbul reading diary

Jessa Crispin

Third time’s a charm for The Bell Jar film?

Taylor Sperry

When it comes to making a bestseller, algorithms are good, but money is better

Chad Felix

Doing it to do it: Donald Trump gets litigious with his former ghostwriter

Ian Dreiblatt