January 09, 2015 » MobyLives! Archives

Charlie Hebdo, the left-leaning French satirical magazine that was massacred early this week, has announced that it will proceed with next week’s issue. Rather than a typical run of 60,000,… 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

The Art of the Novella challenge 9: The Dead

Jonathan Gibbs

Title: The Dead Author: James Joyce First published: 1914 Page count: 64 First line: Lily, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet. Why read the single Joyce in the Novella Challenge… Read more »

Waterstones: Kindle sales have “disappeared”

Zeljka Marosevic

Waterstones, Britain’s leading chain bookshop, had a good Christmas. As The Bookseller reports, physical book sales over Christmas were up over 5% year on year. Speaking to The Bookseller, Waterstones m.d. James Daunt credited that… Read more »

Lee Israel, novelist and literary forger, dies at 75

Julia Fleischaker

“’She drank an awful lot — she was an alcoholic,’ David Yarnell, a friend, said in an interview on Monday. ‘And she was very feisty, and people did not want… Read more »

Melville House Books

January 9, 2015

Charlie Hebdo announces 1 million copies of next week’s issue

Kirsten Reach