The finalists for the 2011 are live! —Check them out HERE— We’d love to hear your comments on the nominees and if you have a few trailers you think deserve… Read more »

We’ve just released the new summer novel The Lake by Japanese sensation Banana Yoshimoto and we’re having a “Book Blogger Hop” for literary book bloggers who are interested in the novel. If… 2 / Read more »

We are now accepting submissions for the the second annual Moby Awards “Celebrating the Best and Worst Book Trailers.” Visit the website for all the details and to re-visit last… Read more »

Thanks to everyone who took part in MobyLives’s Marginalia Contest (inspired by Sam Anderson’s “A Year in Maginalia” post at The Millions.) In an utterly subjective fashion, we’ve selected two of… Read more »

What does a fine literary critic scribble in the margins of the books he’s reading? Well, “OMG” and “LOL” and “Motherfuck” all make appearances… alongside, of course, deeper sentiments. Over… Read more »

On Monday, I wrote about my ambivalence concerning National Novel Writing Month. While there are many things I appreciate about NaNoWriMo, I am dismayed at the “dearth” of good books… 36 / Read more »

Today marks the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), the annual literary marathon in which would-be novelists attempt to write a 50,000+ word novel during a single month. Founded… 44 / Read more »

We’ve been wondering… who are you? The readers of MobyLives, we mean. Our theories are: 1. You are publishing industry wonks who like our hard-hitting exposes and clever commentary on… 2 / Read more »

For the second year, The Guardian is hosting the “Not the Booker” prize, a democratic alternative to the the Man Booker Prize. As Sam Jordison wrote in the prize’s preliminary… 2 / Read more »

The impact of Foetry.com continues to reverberate throughout the poetry world with a shocker from the University of Georgia Press: after 25 years it has decided to end its prestigious… Read more »