Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing
When we first wrote about the four Hong Kong bookstore employees that went missing in November, there was immediate media speculation that the men had been detained by the Chinese government due… Read more »
Crowdsourced Taylor Swift book announced, latest in a grand publishing tradition
The Associated Press recently broke the news of a major event in celebrity-focused crowdsourced publishing: Simon & Schuster will publish a crowdsourced book on Taylor Swift that fans will help create.… Read more »
Lost Pablo Neruda poems—found and crowdfunded
In June 2014, upon reading about the discovery of new poems by Pablo Neruda, Michael Wiegers, executive editor at the nonprofit poetry publisher Copper Canyon Press, wrote the Neruda Foundation,… Read more »
Fitzcarraldo Editions announces book-length essay prize
Fitzcarraldo Editions launched last year with the UK publication of Zone by Mathias Énard—this year’s recipient of France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt prize. Since then, the publisher’s catalog has grown to include… Read more »
When reading can transport you … because there’s a subway chip in the cover
Why bother with a subway pass when you can swipe a book instead? Danny Lewis reports for The Smithsonian that L&PM Editores, São Paolo’s premier pocketbook publisher, is expanding its… Read more »
Kevin Barry wins the Goldsmiths Prize as it awaits its first English winner
The Irish author Kevin Barry has won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize for his novel Beatlebone. Barry was awarded the prize on Wednesday evening, and is the third recipient of the… Read more »
Spurl Editions enters the dark world of translated lit with My Suicide
Spurl Editions, a new independent publisher specializing in photography and “literature that is dark, eccentric, obscure, or unexpected,” released their first book earlier this month—LAX: Photographs of Los Angeles 1980-84 by John Brian King, a… Read more »
Four employees of a Hong Kong publisher known for criticizing Chinese regime are missing
MobyLives has previously written about the challenges faced by publishers and booksellers located in—and friendly with—Hong Kong: everything from decade-long prison sentences, retaliation from distributors, and mainland censorship of any books (even seemingly innocuous… Read more »
An excerpt from Ada’s Algorithm
Maybe you’re fascinated by Ada Lovelace already. If not, I hope by the end of Ada’s Algorithm you will be. I became intrigued by Ada myself – and soon enthralled… Read more »
Win a copy of Ada’s Algorithm!
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM)! For those who don’t know, Ada Lovelace was the unsung pioneer who… Read more »