October 02, 2013 » MobyLives! Archives

“Highbrow gambling” is on the rise: Alex Donohue, spokesman for Ladbrokes, reports that betting on the Man Booker Prize with his company is up from £4,000 in 2005 to £15,000… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Protesting sexism, comic book artists pull out of running for Angoulême Grand Prix — Liam O'Brien
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing — Liam O'Brien
20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover — Kait Howard

German writer refused entry to the United States

Sal Robinson

In a move of spectacular classiness, at a moment when we don’t actually have a government, the zombie form of the US government (though, like a beating telltale heart, the… Read more »

Two Melville House books shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize

Melville House is celebrating the news that two of our books have been shortlisted for the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize, both Melville House UK author Lars Iyer’s Exodus and David Peace’s Red or… Read more »

Memoir by Bob Dylan confidante attracts worldwide interest

Julia Fleischaker

A new book about Bob Dylan is sparking interest across the publishing world. Victor Maymudes served as Dylan’s confidante, friend, and tour manager from 1961 all the way through to… Read more »

Center for Jewish History to open a rare books room

Nick Davies

A new sanctuary for rare and valuable Jewish texts is set to open this weekend, Robin Pogrebin writes for the New York Times’s Arts Beat blog. The Center for Jewish… Read more »

Melville House Books

October 2, 2013

Could bookies affect the outcome of the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Kirsten Reach