November 19, 2015

Ah, the long, sort-of-rich history of product placement in literature! MobyLives readers know all about books designed to sell Weber grills, Sweet ‘N Low, the nation of Malta, and Land Rovers—but what about books… 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 happens when you confuse a bookstore for a terrorist organization

Simon Reichley

Last weekend an independent bookstore in Denver’s Englewood neighborhood was vandalized because of a mistaken association with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, aka ISIS. The bookstore’s name? As a Shelf… Read more »

First Shelley, now Brontë: Yet another 19th century writer to publish new work

Ena Brdjanovic

It’s been a fruitful month for academic sleuths—Oxford acquired a long lost political poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, an upcoming catalog of Francis Bacon features over one-hundred never-before-seen paintings, including one discovered… Read more »

Call Me Ishmael says, “No really — call me!”

Julia Fleischaker

Back in 2014, two friends in Georgia set up a phone number and created Call Me Ishmael, a project that allowed people to call and leave a message describing a… Read more »

Hot investment tip: Buy old books

Taylor Sperry

There was the Internet bubble, the housing bubble, and now, maybe, the rare book bubble. Amelia Murray reports for The Telegraph that the value of rare, first edition books has… Read more »

Melville House Books

Microsoft commissions a sci-fi anthology of stories inspired by…Microsoft

Liam O'Brien