I love the smell of old books in the morning… smells like… book preservation
Ahhh, the smell of old books. Something people love to brag about loving. (Why yes, we’ve gotten product recommendations for old-book-scented soy candles on a certain Internet megastore that shall… Read more »
Amazon slashing orders to publishers just in time for the holidays
Publishers Weekly reports that Amazon has been cutting book orders to book publishers over the last several weeks. Jim Milliot reports: It isn’t clear how widespread the reduction in orders… Read more »
Cancel culture cited in tepid sales of Mark Halperin’s new book
“Cancel culture,” a neologism that has been gaining ever accelerating traction in the last two or three years, has been cited once again in completely nonsensical manner. The term, which… Read more »
Phillip Roth left a substantial part of his estate to the Newark Public Library
In heartwarming bit of library news, famed, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Phillip Roth has left $2 million of his $10 million estate to the Newark Public Library, the Wall Street Journal reports.… Read more »
Top 10 quotes for Patricia Highsmith’s soon-to-be-released diaries
Your faithful blogger here at MobyLives briefly considered writing a thoughtful entry on the moral and ethical issues of the posthumous publication of a famous person’s diaries. The peg would… Read more »
Karl Ove Knausgaard to contribute to the future library
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Norwegian author of the six-volume My Struggle saga, has become the sixth author to sign onto the Future Library project. The project, brain-child of Scottish artist Katie… Read more »
Dublin wants to repatriate James Joyce’s bones
The Guardian reports that Dublin’s city council has put in a bid to bring James Joyce’s remains back to Ireland. What this means, essentially, is that a bunch of people… Read more »
Jojo Moyes’ new book bears “striking similarities” to a recently published novel
Oh boy, we are excited today, because today is the rare day where we get to start a blog post with the line: HOT, HOT LITERARY SCANDAL. They don’t come… Read more »
Two Nobel prizes in literature to be awarded next week
The Swedish Academy is set to announce two more Nobel laureates next week, after it did not hand out the prize last year. The postponement last year was the result… Read more »
Rape or weird foreplay: Bob Woodward investigates
Iconic investigative reporter Bob Woodward put his foot in his mouth on the evening of October 2 and then proceeded to keep shoving it back in a couple more times before… Read more »