April 25, 2017 » MobyLives! Archives

On sale today: The Man Who Designed the Future: Norman Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth-Century America by B. Alexandra Szerlip

Today we publish The Man Who Designed the Future, B. Alexandra Szerlip’s look at the life of design impresario, futurist, and jack-of-many-trades Norman Bel Geddes. By the time of Bel Geddes’s death in… Read more »

Melville House Books

7 Thrilling Reads You Should Throw in Your Beach Bags This Summer — Madeleine Letellier
Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Publishing — Melville House
Continued Covid crisis catalyzes e-book sales; fallout feared — Mike Lindgren
MELVILLE HOUSE ANNOUNCES 500,000 COPY PRINTING OF FIRST IN-DEPTH BOOK ABOUT QANON PHENOMENON AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE — Melville House

Proust the Envious, Hugo the Spiritualist, Flaubert the Obscene: canonical French authors’ lesser literary letters go to auction

Chad Felix

Good news, wealthy book lovers! Jean Bonna, the Geneva-based antiquarian book collector known by those in the know for possessing the greatest goddamn collection of French literature in the world… Read more »

Lying about The Lord of the Rings, and other ways to look cool

Taylor Sperry

For CNET, Gael Fashingbauer Cooper writes that nearly a quarter of UK Millennials say they’ve read J. R. R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, “when they have in fact just… Read more »

Preserving presidential history, one cemetery library at a time

Susan Rella

The entry consists of just four words: Abraham Lincoln. Assassinated. Kentucky. This notice of death—listing name, cause of death, and birthplace of the deceased—is recorded in a plain, inch-thick volume… Read more »