September 06, 2017 » MobyLives! Archives

Boston-area bookseller, Melville House author, and beloved MobyLives columnist Josh Cook first published these thoughts on his blog, In Order of Importance. We read them, loved them, and are grateful to Josh for allowing… Read more »

Melville House Authors

Watch our authors in conversation at the Penguin Random House Spring Book Festival — Amelia Stymacks
Photos and video from India by Suchitra Vijayan, author of Midnight's Borders — Amelia Stymacks
Exclusive photos of Myanmar from author Daniel Combs — Amelia Stymacks
On David Graeber — Melville House

Walt Whitman’s new old stuff is good, but I liked his old new stuff way better

Ryan Harrington

It is fall. The kids have gone back to school. MobyLives is back from hiatus. And some of the biggest authors in the world have books coming out — and… Read more »

Tar Macias, the child of immigrants and publisher of Hola America News, has something to say about DACA repeal

Simon Reichley

Tar Macias is the publisher of Hola America, a “fully bilingual news outlet that brings you the information and stories about the contributions that our Latino communities provide to the… Read more »

The Book Women: Librarians who delivered books on horseback

Stephanie DeLuca

Way before Amazon started delivering books via flying robots (that’s how it works, right?), Depression-era women librarians were delivering books by horseback in the secluded mountains of Kentucky. The Pack Horse Library was part… Read more »

Melville House Books

September 6, 2017

Thoughts on antifa

Josh Cook