March 01, 2019 » MobyLives! Archives

While my esteemed colleagues in the Melville House Brooklyn office are experiencing freezing conditions, in the UK we’re living through the hottest winter on record. It’s debatable as to when… Read more »

Children's Books

Matt Lucas resurrects baked potato song as hit single and book — Tom Clayton
New children's book tells the story of the Chinese doctor who tried to warn the world about coronavirus — Nikki Griffiths
Little Princess kid’s book can’t keep up with coronavirus demand — Nikki Griffiths
Parents are upset that kids are upset by climate change books — Athena Bryan

Lawsuits all the way down: the bizarre afterlife of To Kill a Mockingbird continues

Simon Reichley

According to reporting by Alexandra Alter and Michael Paulson for The New York Times, dozens of community theater productions of Christopher Sergel’s 1990 stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill… Read more »

Dear Dairy: artist makes book out of cheese

Tom Clayton

Last year we reported on the varied and occasionally distressing objects people used as bookmarks and subsequently returned to public libraries. It was gross. Chief offender among these objects, according… Read more »

Melville House Books

March 1, 2019

The Hundred Acre Wood is burning down as UK temperatures reach record highs

Nikki Griffiths

Lawsuits all the way down: the bizarre afterlife of To Kill a Mockingbird continues

Simon Reichley

Dear Dairy: artist makes book out of cheese

Tom Clayton