Aside from its omission of our Booksellers Choice Awards festivities, this guide posted at evilreads is quite useful for New Yorkers, booksellers, and other industry folks who will be in… 2 / Read more »

The Onion has run its saddest — or is it hilariousest? — article about the book biz ever: “Author Promoting Book Gives It Her All Whether It’s Just 3 People… Read more »

As the official British correspondent for MobyLives, this weekend I attended the wonderful launch of World Book Night to report back to our readers on the festivities. The opening ceremony… 2 / Read more »

As we reported last month on MobyLives, World Book Night is set to take place in London on 5th March. The stage is being set for what looks like a… Read more »

Powell’s, which was in the news yesterday for all the wrong reasons is yet again showing book-lovers who flock it to from all over the world, why it is an… 6 / Read more »

As a bitter winter draws to a close, Polina Barskova, “the most important Russian poet of the younger generation,” will give two readings this week to celebrate the launch of… Read more »

Melville House and MobyLives are offline for the holidays. We’ll be back in early January. Until then, our best wishes to all our readers and thanks for your support in… Read more »

As previously reported, Teleportal Readings has begun producing delightful animated videos of author readings. Also, Electric Literature has been making beautiful animations of single sentences. One of our favorites was Joanna Neborsky’s take… 1 / Read more »

  NaNoWriMo, the merry one-month novel writing marathon, has drawn to a close. 2,799,449,947 words were written. $665,018 was raised. Tens of thousands of “winners” completed 50,000+ word “novels.” Earlier… Read more »

Rarely do second editions get a lot of press. Even less likely is the chance an author will tour for the release of a second edition, especially if the book… Read more »