With the loomings of a new MobyLives in mind, we’re collecting photographs of the various occupations around the country right now. So we’re inviting you, the noble occupier, to submit… Read more »

To celebrate our publication of Andrey Kurkov’s beloved Russian crime-fiction series starring a penguin named Misha, Melville House is announcing a new Adopt-a-Penguin program. No, really… We will adopt a… Read more »

With the release of The Duel x5, Melville House is launching a new digital innovation, HybridBooks, which combines the concept of a digitally enhanced eBook with the printed book. For… Read more »

More highbrow sports commentary at Grantland, where Brian Phillips describes Roger Federer’s Wimbledon loss to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in literary terms. Whereas “Tsonga tiptoed around the court like Ferdinand the Bull…Federer, by contrast, played like… Read more »

Not being a big sports fan in general, it takes a lot to convince me it’s worth investing the time it takes to plop down in front of the television… Read more »

Well, it was a hell of a ride. This year’s Not The Booker (the anti-Booker put on annually by the Guardian) flirted with controversy from the get-go. During the nomination… Read more »

At first it didn’t seem suspicious: a comment by someone named Suzan Loughney to one of our posts about the Kindle. Wrote Loughney, I like reading and at the beginning… 24 / Read more »

As we’ve already reported, Lee Rourke’s The Canal is the co-winner of The Guardian’s Not The Booker prize alongside Matthew Hooton’s Deloume Road. It’s been a grand year so far… 10 / Read more »