September 17, 2020 » MobyLives! Archives

Booker Prize moves online; digital tomes abound

Mike Lindgren

The famed Booker Prize, like everything else, has moved online this year. The prestigious award, which has a long history of skulduggery, controversy, and fractiousness, has been a relatively sedate… Read more »

Awards and ceremonies

First Irish woman to win International Dublin Literary Award — Jessie Stratton
Nobel Nabobs Named; Swedes Suffer Rep Wreckage — Mike Lindgren
Science Fiction writers protest Saudi Arabia as possible conference site — Ryan Harrington
Another no-show for small publishers as the Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist is announced — Nikki Griffiths

Obama memoir might land right after election

Ryan Harrington

Just last week we wrote about how in the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election the book world would be buzzing about Evan Osnos’s volume on Joe Biden. But… Read more »