April 27, 2017 » MobyLives! Archives

Last year, we published Kate Hamer’s The Girl in the Red Coat, and it was, well, kind of a big deal. In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani praised its “unsparing emotional precision.” In a… Read more »

Melville House Books

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
NYTimes tallies tsunami of Trump tomes; why John Dean's book Is different — Mike Lindgren

A Q&A with Dave Lucey, co-owner of North Carolina’s Page 158 Books, on moving a bookstore

Peter Clark

Dave and Sue Lucey are members of that dedicated and time-honored lineage known as bookstore owners. Their current shop, Page 158 Books, is in downtown Wake Forest, North Carolina, beside… Read more »

New William Gibson novel will convincingly imagine time travel and Hillary Clinton as president

Chad Felix

Science-fiction luminary William Gibson’s new novel, Agency, due out in January 2018, imagines Hillary Rodham Clinton as POTUS #45. But that’s not all. Gibson, the author of Neuromancer and The Peripheral who is credited… Read more »

Discover just how political the Eurovision Song Contest is in Chris West’s new book

Nikki Griffiths

The Eurovision Song Contest is coming! One of the longest-running TV programmes in the world, it’s watched annually by over 200 million viewers worldwide. And last year, it began being broadcast in the… Read more »