November 01, 2018 » MobyLives! Archives

Human chains have been used for a variety of reasons – saving the lives of stranded swimmers, protesting terribly shitty immigration policy, rescuing puppers – but last weekend saw a first: a… Read more »

Booksellers & bookselling

Oxford University Press pull Biff & Chip book over "scary" country pages — Tom Clayton
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
"Old Books Discussed"—ancient article animates attention — Mike Lindgren
End of an era: Waterstones to extend high street domination after acquiring bookshop chain Blackwell's — Nikki Griffiths

The South African apartheid and the burning of books

Erica Huang

It’s been twenty-four years since the apartheid reign in South Africa had been put to rest, and since today is a spooky day, we’re going to talk about another chilling… Read more »

Unpublished Sylvia Plath story to be released in 2019

Julie Goldberg

A never-before-published story by Sylvia Plath will be released by Faber & Faber in January 2019. Set to be published as a stand-alone book, “Mary Venture and the Ninth Kingdom”… Read more »

A rare bookseller will open a Brooklyn cookbook store

Christina Cerio

On November 26, just after you recover from your Thanksgiving food coma and are ready to enter the kitchen again, a new cookbook store will open in Brooklyn. The bookstore… Read more »

Melville House Books

November 1, 2018

A human conveyor belt of protest literature in Southampton

Susan Rella