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

Children’s book about a Syrian refugee wins this year’s Blue Peter award — Nikki Griffiths
An elementary school principal reads bedtime stories to her students via Facebook live videos — Stephanie DeLuca
Is World Book Day becoming too expensive for parents? — Tom Clayton
Did you celebrate International Book Giving Day or Valentine's Day on 14th February? — Nikki Griffiths

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