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

East London charity celebrates 7000th book bike delivery — Tom Clayton
Free children's book celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee criticised as too 'Anglocentric' by Welsh and Scottish governments — Nikki Griffiths
Oxford University Press pull Biff & Chip book over "scary" country pages — Tom Clayton
"Wot, No Books?" Milton Keynes library saved after protesters check out its entire stock — Tom Clayton

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