On never having to quit publishing
Dennis Johnson
It has been a great year to be a dead author. Deceased thriller writers Steig Larsson, Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy, and Ian Fleming all have new books out. The… Read more »
It has been a great year to be a dead author. Deceased thriller writers Steig Larsson, Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy, and Ian Fleming all have new books out. The… Read more »
Waterstones is set to make a profit for the first time in five years—that is, if the chain continues to do well over Christmas. Waterstones’ managing director, James Daunt, told The… Read more »
“There are all these interesting African writers being published abroad,” states publisher Bibi Bakare-Yusuf in a video introduction to Cassava Republic Press, “and they’re not available locally. No one’s heard… Read more »
Deborah Treisman says that the fiction department at The New Yorker is “often frustrated by novellas: they can do so much, and yet we can’t do much with them. There… Read more »
It’s nigh-on impossible to find realistic portrayals of any job on television because television is (supposed to be) entertaining and actual jobs are boring. The most common professions depicted on TV—cop, lawyer, scientist, politician, and… Read more »
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Literary Review has announced the finalists for the best literary prize around: the Bad Sex Awards. The Bad Sex Awards have taken… Read more »
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 »
We’d be forgiven for not wanting to look at too many more paintings by Francis Bacon, the 20th-century artist known for his raw depictions of popes, screams, and crucifixions. But if… Read more »
Last week, MobyLives wrote about the correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, who, before he died, issued explicit instructions that his letters were not to be published after his death. A seven-volume… Read more »
At this point, Amazon and Germany’s back-and-forth is becoming the stuff of legend. Remember that time Amazon’s warehouse workers in Germany went on strike, then did it again, and again, and again?… Read more »