DIESEL, A Bookstore encourages donations of children’s books following the northern California wildfires
In troubling times like these, you do what you can with what you have (that’s what we always say, anyway) and what Larkspur, California’s excellent DIESEL, A Bookstore has is a keen… Read more »
Novelists Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jesmyn Ward are officially geniuses, too
Early yesterday morning, while you were sleeping, twenty-four other people became geniuses, officially. It happens every year about this time. You get in bed, you sleep (or try to sleep),… Read more »
Moonlight director heads to Harlem to film James Baldwin adaptation
Last week, Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar Award-winning Moonlight, attended a meeting of Community Board 10 in Harlem, where he took to a podium and spoke to the neighborhood’s representatives and residents about his intention to film… Read more »
Moon Palace III: Journey to the Booze
Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is moving — again! As you may recall, the beloved indie in the city’s Longfellow neighborhood moved to their current Minnehaha Street address just last year, in… Read more »
Killing Bill O’Reilly’s writing career
As we reported earlier this year, Bill O’Reilly—serial sexual harasser and the guy who called Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas “the price of freedom”—isn’t selling quite as many books as he… Read more »
Garth Brooks to release five Garth books
All I can say is, it’s about time. Garth Brooks—country music icon, part-time Chris Gaines, middling baseball player, supporter of gay rights, and a pretty charming performer—is finally getting his… Read more »
Sounds like Brooklyn is finally getting that McNally Jackson
It’s been over three years since we last reported on legendary New York bookstore McNally Jackson’s plan to open a store in Brooklyn. That outpost—planned for the borough’s expensive, touristy… Read more »
Congratulations, Susanne König, winner of the inaugural Frankfurt Book Fair US Booksellers Prize
While we were on break (true MobeHeads know it, we were off in August), publishing veteran, stalwart bookseller, and Melville House neighbor Susanne König was named the recipient of the first… Read more »
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has turned city landmarks “Amazon orange” in a bid for the company‘s second headquarters 
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