Melville House Books

“Finding room to read at the British Library is no mean feat for established users, as seats are increasingly filled by twittering students fiddling with their phones, says John Sutherland”… Read more »

Pulizer-winning poet C.K. Williams has been named as this year’s winner of the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, according to an Associated Press wire story. “The prize was announced Wednesday… Read more »

The head of one of the U.K.’s most prestigious publishing houses, Bloomsbury, “has warned UK publishers to beware the blandishments of Internet search engine Google.” In particular, according to a… Read more »

After 26 years “in the pipeline,” the movie version of the late Douglas Adams’ megaselling Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has finally opened. A Reuters wire story by Lydia Bell… Read more »

The pursuit of the back story as to what prompted Dave Eggers’s vehement attack on Paul Maliszewski (see Monday’s MobyLives news digest) continues to veer away from the purported topic… Read more »

A veteran of the war in Vietnam waited patiently on line at a Jane Fonda booksigning in Kansas City Tuesday night and spit tobacco juice in her face when it… Read more »

On February 22, MobyLives ran its first story about Foetry.com, using a headline that said the story was “Something the Times will no doubt cover . . . in two… Read more »

The proprietor of Foetry.com has written in to MobyLives to “correct” the New York Times story (below) with the news that he has reactivated the Foetry.com website. “Foetry.com lives again,”… Read more »