September 07, 2017 » MobyLives! Archives

Statistics is hard. I get it. We work in book publishing, and we are people of letters. We draw from these artsy little shape-thingies here assembled some semblance of profundity, if not raw knowledge… Read more »

Bestsellers

Solving the mystery: literary puzzle book first published in 1934 becomes bestseller thanks to TikTok — Nikki Griffiths
"Millennium hand and shrimp!" Discworld audiobooks get star-studded re-record — Tom Clayton
More Bond-related books set for 2022, with first female author at the helm — Tom Clayton
David Walliams story to be removed from bestselling children's book due to accusations of racism — Nikki Griffiths

Book of daily devotionals from Hillary Clinton’s pastor pulled and pulped due to plagiarism

Chad Felix

The morning after the 2016 election, the story goes, former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton checked her email. She discovered there a note, a touching devotion, from her spiritual adviser, the… Read more »

Forget the allegations of sexual harassment and assault, Casey Affleck is going to star in “Stoner”

Taylor Sperry

Yesterday, reporters on the Hollywood beat gleefully announced that Casey Affleck will star in the upcoming adaptation of John Williams’s masterful and devastating Stoner, a novel that sold modestly when… Read more »

Remembering John Ashbery: “But night, reserved, reticent, gives more than it takes.”

Ian Dreiblatt

The world lost one of its most accomplished writers this weekend, and one of its most beloved, when the American poet John Ashbery died at his home in Hudson, NY, just a… Read more »

Melville House Books

September 7, 2017

Will everyone please stop feeding the hand that feeds Regnery Publishing?

Peter Clark