This week in 1913
From now until the end of the year, we’ll be publishing weekly excerpts from 1913, which The Observer called “An absolute gem of a book.” 1913 was the year Henry Ford first put… Read more »
Melville House
Friday Sperm Whales
President Obama (or more likely a staffer) responded to a letter from New England Independent Booksellers Association director Steve Fischer, who had expressed concern about Obama’s decision to appear at… Read more »
Tuesday Bowhead Whales
Lyle Beniga and his dancers took over a library for an afternoon. And then some librarians remade “Sabotage.” Go, libraries! In the memoir Mo’ Meta Blues, reviewed by James Guida, Questlove recounts how “hip hop was buried at The Source magazine’s awards night in May… Read more »
Monday Belugas
The DOJ continues to play strange and surprisingly ham-fisted games in the case against Apple, even after the trial’s conclusion. As reported in the Wall Street Journal and GigaOm on Friday, the DOJ has revised their… Read more »
Friday Basilosauruses
First, Barnes & Noble launches a big advertising campaign in the UK to bump up languishing Nook sales. Then, it runs out of Nooks. Probably not their finest hour… (The Guardian) Is… Read more »
Tuesday Spade-Toothed Whales
Simon & Schuster and Barnes & Noble have resolved their rough and tumble dispute. Both the cause of that disagreement and the terms of their resolution have remained largely unknown, though sources indicate… Read more »
Monday Grey Whales
The longlist for this year’s German Book Prize is out: 20 titles, with some names that may be familiar to English-speaking audiences (Uwe Timm, Terezia Mora, Clemens Meyer, Urs Widmer)… Read more »
Tuesday Short-Finned Pilot Whales
“A man who is somehow both totally inadequate and totally heroic.” Josephine Livingstone points us toward a new taxonomy of the detective in crime fiction. (Prospect Magazine Blog) How long until we’re just pairing… Read more »
Thursday Baleen
In today’s roundup: Kindle Worlds gets the rights to Cat’s Cradle; Amazon, Sony, and Kobo are lobbying to exempt ereaders from accessibility laws; and Dennis Johnson talks Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post on Democracy Now. … Read more »
Tuesday Arnoux’s Beaked Whales
This August, as we prepare to unleash a truly remarkable fall catalog, MobyLives will be taking a bit of a breather. We’ll still post the occasional news item or feature,… Read more »