Michael Emmerich, the translator of Banana Yoshimoto’s The Lake among many other books, will be at New York’s McNally Jackson tonight for “The Bridge” translation series. He’ll be joined by… Read more »

How did we miss this? It seems the perfect match-up — Kurt Vonnegut talks to Jon Stewart. About a book he did with a small press, no less (Seven Stories).

  The paperback of Banana Yoshimoto’s The Lake is in bookstores today. The novel has been shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and praised by The New York Times… 4 / Read more »

Our girl in Michigan, Abby Koski, interviewed renaissance woman Roxane Gay MOBY: You have so many great projects going on. How do you find that these different projects balance and… Read more »

On Friday, Willamette Week posted an interview with James Tracy, the co-author (along with Amy Sonnie) of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power—the rarely told history of white… Read more »

Rafik Schami is a Syrian author and critic who has been living in exile in Germany for the past forty years; his last novel, The Dark Side of Love, was… Read more »

Transcript of an email interview conducted with Johnny Temple, founder of Akashic Books … Moby: You’re in Frankfurt right now. What’s the thing you’re hearing about the most there?  Temple:… Read more »

Yesterday saw the launch of OccupyWriters.com, “an open letter of support by creative writers for Occupy Wall St and the Occupy movement around the world, signed by more than 1,000… Read more »

For weeks, we’ve been watching The Not the Booker Prize unfold at The Guardian’s books website, cheering for Lars Iyer’s Spurious to take home the coveted first place prize: a… Read more »

Tax day, everyone! And for everyone recognizing the “official” pub date for The Pale King, it’s Pale King day. So happy tax-Pale-King day. David Foster Wallace had a knack for… Read more »