Dave Eggers’ new hardcover will be available in indie bookstores only
Want to get the hardcover of Dave Eggers’s new book, The Every? Well, you’ll have to get it at an independent bookstore—that’s the only place it will be available. The… Read more »
Setlists For Young Voices aims to raise money for writers by selling memorabilia from your favorite bands
The nearly 100 setlists that Setlists For Young Voices will soon be auctioning off to benefit youth writing programs is a veritable who’s who of the rock and roll world (including The Who).… Read more »
Getting to know people who know what we do now: David Cole, Dave Eggers, Ilyse Hogue
As you might have heard, in time for Inauguration Day we’re putting out What We Do Now, a collection of short, powerful essays on what we can do now to cope with Trump’s election, and how, moving… Read more »
Sanders, Warren, Steinem, and Other Leading Progressives Respond to Trump in New Melville House Book Pubbing for Inauguration Day
Melville House has announced it will publish a collection of passionate manifestos by leading progressives—including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Gloria Steinem, Paul Krugman, Robert B. Reich, and others—and that it… Read more »
When it comes to making a bestseller, algorithms are good, but money is better
Neil Balthaser, whose start-up Intellogo we’ve covered on MobyLives before, has heard about The Bestseller Code, the recent book by book-tech duo Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers that takes as its… Read more »
Algorithm calls Dave Eggers’s The Circle the ultimate bestseller, despite its not being a bestseller
Have you ever wondered what would happen if someone put all the books in the land on an island, gave them a taste for sales, and had them battle it… Read more »
450 American authors bravely band together to publicly denounce the most reviled public figure in recent memory
Over at iPetitions.com, a group of 450 American authors have posted an open letter opposing the candidacy of Donald Trump, who, if you haven’t heard, is running for President of… Read more »
Three for Tuesday: An Interview with Tim Parks
Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »
New York Public Library Library Lions Gala honors Atwood, Eggers, Ishiguro, Robert B. Silvers, and Anna Deavere Smith
The New York Public Library held its annual Library Lions gala on Monday night, presenting honors to Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Kazuo Ishiguro, Robert B. Silvers, and Anna Deavere Smith. New York… Read more »
McSweeney’s to become a nonprofit publisher
McSweeney’s, the sixteen year-old publishing company in San Francisco, is filing for nonprofit status, according to an announcement on its webpage this week. At Melville House, we know as well… Read more »