November 18, 2014

In 1980, Julia Child won a National Book Award for Current Interest for a cookbook called Julia Child and More Company. Seven years earlier, George B. Schaller had won a… Read more »

Awards and ceremonies

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
Siren İdemen wins inaugural Talât Sait Halman Translation Prize — Chad Felix
PEN urges Chinese government to free dissident poets Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia — Chad Felix

Is “likeability” only an issue if the character is female?

Kirsten Reach

Asked whether she’d want to be friends with the protagonist in her latest novel, Claire Messud famously quipped in an interview with Publishers Weekly last year, “Would you want to be friends… Read more »

Florida school board just can’t deal with these Satanic coloring books

Liam O'Brien

As detailed in a previous MobyLives piece, the Satanic Temple was NOT handing out their self-published coloring and activity book at Orlando-area elementary schools. This didn’t stop the media from… Read more »

Want to learn to play the ukulele? You can check one out of the library in Chicago or Portland

Claire Kelley

Highland Park Library in Chicago has a new ukelele collection, and patrons can use their library card to check out an instrument with accompanying material to learn how to play.… Read more »

Stephen Colbert: comic book hero

Nick Davies

Stephen Colbert has had many titles over the course of his career: actor, comedian, talk show host, author—and this week he’ll be able to add one more to the list:… Read more »

Melville House Books

Bring back the National Book Award for Translation!

Mark Krotov