Crowdsourced Taylor Swift book announced, latest in a grand publishing tradition
The Associated Press recently broke the news of a major event in celebrity-focused crowdsourced publishing: Simon & Schuster will publish a crowdsourced book on Taylor Swift that fans will help create.… Read more »
FSG publishing anonymously authored Silicon Valley satire—all 18 pages of it
In June of this year, MobyLives wrote about Iterating Grace, a 2,001 word chapbook making fun of, while making its way around, Silicon Valley. Now, according to Alexandra Alter at The… Read more »
2015 Man Booker Prize longlist announced
Now in its second year of being open to authors of any nationality, as long as they’ve published in the UK, this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist is headlined by… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: Let’s write a novel about publishing together!
Topics discussed: Thomas Pynchon, our Thomas Pynchon petition, the huge success of our Thomas Pynchon petition, liking books, loving books, #amreading, the We Love Books Party, the Constitution Party, arsenic,… Read more »
Faber hints it’s parting ways with FSG to start a new U.S. company
Is Faber & Faber opening a U.S. branch? It certainly sounded that way from the company’s announcement in The Bookseller yesterday: the company is ending its partnership with Farrar, Straus,… Read more »