August 2, 2010

Gone fishin’

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 going to be goofing off during August. We are going to be working hard for…

Lee Rourke, the "Rising Star"

Because new “discoveries” seem to us to be what publishing is all about, we take great pride at Melville House in the fact that some of our discoveries (Tao Lin, Hans Fallada) have really caught on. Now, it appears our newest discovery — British writer…

Go with the floe ….

The other amazing book we’re doing this summer is T Cooper‘s The Beaufort Diaries, about a polar bear fleeing the melting arctic for Los Angeles, where he befriends Leonardo DiCaprio. You think I’m making this up? The word has been amazing: The “surrealistic satire,” as…