Click here to read Josh Cook’s first piece about preparing for readings It’s one thing to prepare for readings and quite another to give them. For the most part, I… Read more »

World Book Night is coming up quickly, just two short months away. The national effort to give out free books to those who don’t usually have access to them is… Read more »

World Book Night has been an institution in the UK and Ireland since 2010, and last year it crossed the pond, with the US celebrating it for the first time. Come… Read more »

The second annual “Trame” (“Plots” in English) literary festival was held at the end of June this year in southern Italy. It is billed on the festival website as the… Read more »

Thursday, June 28, 7pm Melville House 145 Plymouth St Brooklyn, NY 11201 From a Dream to a Problem: Arab-American Stories and Identity from Little Syria to Post-9/11 New York In… Read more »

Last night was World Book Night. In communities across the U.S. and beyond, people and groups organized efforts to give out free copies of various books in what Anna Quindlen, an… Read more »

Above, two posters spotted in New York advertising May Day festivities connected to Occupy Wall Street. (The poster on top is hanging in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the other in the… 2 / Read more »

60 Writers / 60 Places, is a film by Luca Dipierro and Michael Kimball featuring (you guessed it) 60 different writers reading excerpts of their work in unusual places around… Read more »

For the next month MobyLives will be observing the book industry holiday known as August. That means that while we will continue to post notice of ongoing contests, give-aways, new… 2 / Read more »

In light of this New York Times report about booksellers charging for events, Slate media critic Jack Shafer points us (via Twitter) to this 2008 analysis of the economics of… 4 / Read more »