May 02, 2013 » MobyLives! Archives

Women face a deeply double pressure to please, to be likable—to be made of suger, spice, and everything nice. In the world of fiction, that pressure falls on their characters.… Read more »

Authors

Protesting sexism, comic book artists pull out of running for Angoulême Grand Prix — Liam O'Brien
20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover — Kait Howard
Amazon picks up The Last Tycoon adaptation, casts Kelsey Grammer in lead — Liam O'Brien
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga denies eating his companion — Taylor Sperry

What to do when you have no spine: The Atlantic publishes ebooks

Dustin Kurtz

As Laura Hazard Owen of paidContent reports, The Atlantic announced Wednesday that they will begin publishing ebooks under a new venture called The Atlantic Books. The press will publish “original long-form… Read more »

How much does a Pulitzer affect book sales?

Kirsten Reach

Husna Haq of The Christian Science Monitor tracked sales for the 2013 winners just two weeks after the Pulitzer Prize was announced. The result? Money has not fallen from the… Read more »

Masha Gessen is writing a book about the Tsarnaev brothers

Alex Shephard

Well, that didn’t take long. Yesterday it was announced that Masha Gessen, author of the excellent biography of Vladimir Putin, The Man Without A Face, will be writing a book about… Read more »

Bikers for Books reaches out to elementary school students

Nick Davies

There’s a new face for literacy advocacy in central Michigan, and it’s a bit different from the staid librarians and other bookish types you might expect. Bikers for Books launched… Read more »

Melville House Books

May 2, 2013

Madwoman in PW: Claire Messud responds to sexist questions

Abigail Grace Murdy