Kazuo Ishiguro ruffled some feathers recently when he told Alexandra Alter, in an interview for The New York Times, that he was worried his readers would perceive his newest book, The… Read more »

In the mid-nineteenth century, filling out confession albums was a popular pastime in English households and French salons. In 1886, at age 14, Marcel Proust filled out answers to an… Read more »

Interviewing an author can be a perilous process. There’s so much to get right, so much that can go so wrong. But Adam Begley has just given interviewers another reason… Read more »

Women face a deeply double pressure to please, to be likable—to be made of suger, spice, and everything nice. In the world of fiction, that pressure falls on their characters.… Read more »

This is an occasional series that asks some of our favorite independent booksellers a handful of simple questions. The questions are the same, but the answers (predictably) vary. If you’re… Read more »

Can you describe some of the challenges you faced in translating this title? By all appearances a crime novel, the real mystery of Brenner and God isn’t located in how… Read more »

As a MobyLives report detailed yesterday, Amazon.com has ended its boycott of ebooks from the more than 500 independent publishers distributed by the Independent Publishers Group (IPG) by finally coming… Read more »

I’ve long complained about the mainstream’s lessening books coverage — you tell me, does it make sense to you that increasingly desperate newspapers no longer cater to people who like… Read more »

Get ready for a sort of rarity: The big publishing machine in New York doing what it usually does — a mega-rollout featuring the usual power-broker suspects — except this… Read more »

MobyLives isn’t all that goes on at 145 Plymouth Street, DUMBO; there’s also that little thing of publishing books. The Economist recently came to interview Melville House co-founder and co-publisher Dennis Johnson. Talking… Read more »