June 28, 2017

Nobody can sell a book like Oprah and her eponymous book club. I do not say this as a rhetorical flourish. Nobody can sell a book like Oprah. In 2005, Businessweek’s Hardy… Read more »

Book Clubs

Footballer Marcus Rashford's mum accepts Book of the Year award on his behalf — Tom Clayton
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths
Tails of the unexpected: Pembrokeshire library offers dog reading sessions — Tom Clayton
New Edinburgh book shop focusing on women's writing opens this summer — Tom Clayton

JetBlue & Random House are at it again, this time in Florida

Taylor Sperry

This is a map of Book Deserts in the United States. You’ll notice that the reddest (driest?) spots—where the estimated percentage of homes with more than 100 books is between… Read more »

Founder of NYC radical bookstore Bluestockings re-ups in sunny San Francisco, with Black Bird Bookstore

If you’ve ever been to Bluestockings Bookstore, Activist Center, and Fair Trade Café on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, you would probably agree that “minimalist” is not a particularly apt descriptor of the… Read more »

Thousands of rare books have been sold in Ireland, in the largest auction in decades

Julia Fleischaker

You’re reading MobyLives, so it’s a safe guess that you like books. Heck, you probably even think you love books. But, you don’t love books like Mary Colette McAlister did.… Read more »

Melville House Books

These powerful ladies want you to read these powerful books by ladies

Ryan Harrington

JetBlue & Random House are at it again, this time in Florida

Taylor Sperry

Founder of NYC radical bookstore Bluestockings re-ups in sunny San Francisco, with Black Bird Bookstore

Simon Reichley

Thousands of rare books have been sold in Ireland, in the largest auction in decades

Julia Fleischaker