Melville House Books

In her final report for her ongoing Melville House “Live Book” project — now she’s off to finalize the book, which should appear in June — Kari Lydersen reports the… Read more »

Yesterday — in this MobyLives story — we asked for tips about the status of a month-old bid for the trade publishing unit of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, first reported by… Read more »

Independent British booksellers have called for a “collective” action — including boycotts — of books from the Sceptre publsihing house (a Hachette imprint) after it signed a deal to sell… Read more »

And now for some Royal news; culled, appropriately, from the Torygraph. Sarah Ferguson –- also known as the Duchess of York, or Fergie for short –- has long enjoyed an… Read more »

Inspired by Script & Scribble author Kitty Burns Florey’s now-famous attempt to diagram a sentence spoken by Sarah Palin, over at The Millions blog Garth Risk Hallberg decided “to see… Read more »

Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih died yesterday in London, according to a Reuters report. Salih was one of the great modern African fictions writers, author of classic short novel The Wedding… Read more »