This weekend, November 4-7, New York City hosts two significant celebrations of printed book culture: The fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, presented by Printed Matter at MoMA PS1, and… Read more »

Literary readings are fleeting things. Ten, fifteen, twenty people gather, they hear someone read too-fast or too-softly from a book, and then everyone disperses. In New York there are too… 2 / Read more »

While recent reports detail the floundering state of book conventions in the US, this weekend marks the fifth anniversary of a book festival that’s more popular than ever: the Brooklyn… Read more »

MobyLives is now observing the book industry holiday known as August. We will be back in September with a whole new set of awesome super powers. Really. We’re not just… 2 / Read more »

So you’re on the bus reading Tao Lin’s Shoplifting from American Apparel and you realize you’re reading a scene about a fictionalized event you were at. Then you read the… Read more »

Today’s a big day for writer Zachary German, freshly turned 21: his debut novel, Eat When You Feel Sad, hits shelves and tonight, the lovely WORD bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn… Read more »

Sixteen years after Islamic fundamentalists declared a fatwah on Salman Rushdie that drove him into hiding, the author of Satanic Verses is “ambling the cobbled streets in plain sight” as… Read more »

“The literature and culture of the tense Korean peninsula will be the main focus of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest such event,” organizers announced yesterday. As an… Read more »

While most reports on the recent BookExpo America convention have painted a gloomy portrait of the book industry, Amazonia author James Marcus describes a decidedly more upbeat scene in his… Read more »

The 18th annual Tehran Book Fair, set to begin Wednesday, certainly has its work cut out for it, at least according to some. As a story from Mehr News reports,… Read more »