Red Hen Press, an independent publisher based in Los Angeles, has spent days refusing to carry food to Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Someday, historians may have to explain why, in the hot summer of 2018, a number of American conservatives grew incensed at an independent literary publisher for failing to promise to… Read more »
Hail and Farewell: Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018)
Renowned writer, chef, and TV personality Anthony Bourdain has died at sixty-one. According to a report from The New York Times, Bourdain, who had been working on an episode of… Read more »
“Hardee’s was really the writing sanctuary”: When award-winning fiction springs from fast food
It is a little-known, untrue fact that Leo Tolstoy used to write in the village square — the faces inspired him. It is an equally little-known, but truer, fact that crime novelist Brad Parks… Read more »
An interview with Amanda Deutch, the poet working to create a Coney Island-themed literary arts non-profit
Amanda Deutch is no newcomer to Brooklyn. And while some of us are out cracking wise about kale (for the record, an excellent vegetable) and banjos (for the record, an excellent… Read more »
Andrew Wylie to publishing world: Diversify
Publishers from around the world are gathered at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany this week to discuss the future of the industry. Among a number of high-profile speakers, legendary… Read more »
Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron address the Frankfurt Book Fair
As Andrew Albanese reports at Publishers Weekly, and Anna Codrea-Rado at the New York Times, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron made a joint address at the opening ceremony… 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 »
Sonia Sotomayor likes books and is a hero
Justice Felix Frankfurter was many things: an early columnist for the New Republic, a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, an immigrant who had a tremendous impact on his adoptive country,… Read more »
The Family Food
Argumentative literary estates—spatting spouses, offensive offspring, and exciteable executors—are as common in our publishing landscape as tortoise shell glasses and the disappearance of bookstores. So it’s nice to hear that two descendants of the Nathan’s… Read more »
Summer Books Preview: The Insides, by Jeremy Bushnell
The Insides, Jeremy Bushnell’s highly anticipated follow-up to The Weirdness—the book Esquire called “wonderfully weird and entertaining”—is full of wit, imagination, and suspense. In short, it’s Jeremy Bushnell at his finest.… Read more »