August 26, 2011
Found in Book
Found in a Dylan bio at the Strand. Apparently lying to your therapist can be liberating.
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August 25, 2011
Illuminations: Pantsless Paragons
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
Illuminations: The Russian Duel’s Greatest Hits
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
Illuminations: A Sodden Irish Duel
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
August 15, 2011
Illuminations: Against The Duel: Part I
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
Illuminations: Let God Sort Them Out
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
Illuminations: Dueling in Napoleon’s Grand Army
With the release of The Duel x5 (Today!), Melville House is launching a new digital innovation, HybridBooks, which combines the concept of a digitally enhanced eBook with the printed book. For more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples…
Illuminations: The Art of Fighting With Jackets
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
Illuminations: Superman vs. Superfluous Man
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
Illuminations: Against The Duel – Part II
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
Illuminations: The Code Duello of the American South
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
Illuminations: The Parry & The Thrust
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
August 13, 2011
The “How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive” Book Tour, Part 2 – Catastrophe?!
It’s a classic tale of Hollywood. You show up with stars in your eyes, visions of your name in lights, and it all ends in… tow trucks. Christopher Boucher, author of the “strange and dazzling” How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, arrived in Los Angeles…
August 12, 2011
Illuminations: The first ten rules of the French Code Duello
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
Illuminations: The Viking Holmganga
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples…
Illuminations: The Difficulty of Being Casanova
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
Illuminations: Billiard Balls at Twelve Paces
Throughout August we will be posting samples from the Illuminations — additional material that will appear exclusively in the first releases in our HybridBook series. So sharpen your sword, keep your powder dry and get ready for a month of dueling history, lore and technique.…
Illuminations: The Ten People You Would Never Want To Duel
Throughout August we will be posting samples from the Illuminations — additional material that will appear exclusively in the first releases in our Hybrid Books series. So sharpen your sword, keep your powder dry and get ready for a month of dueling history, lore and…
August 10, 2011
Introducing The Melville House HybridBook
“Welcome to the future!” -The New York Observer In conjunction with next week’s publication of The Duel x 5 series we’re excited to announce the launch of the Melville House HybridBook initiative. Typically when a publisher offers any sort of bonus material in an eBook,…
August 9, 2011
The “How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive” Book Tour, Part 1 – the Bug
Christopher Boucher, author of How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, begins his cross-country book-tour roadtrip today. In his first blog-post from the road he finally got to “meet” the little black Volkswagen Beetle that will, in theory, carry him and his wife LIsa to bookstores…
August 5, 2011
Killing Cliffs, Bloody Island and The Art of The Novella?
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
Killing Cliffs, Bloody Island and The Art of The Novella?
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 more information on HybridBooks please click here. Throughout August we will be posting samples from…
August 4, 2011
Announcing The HybridBook
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nathan Ihara | nathan@mhpbooks.com | 718.722.9204 MELVILLE HOUSE ANNOUNCES “HYBRIDBOOK” PROGRAM COMBINING PRINT AND DIGITAL TEXTS Brooklyn, NY; August 4, 2011 — Melville House has announced the official launch of its long-rumored HybridBook project, an…
“Every duel, gentlemen, must end in death…otherwise it is absurd.”
Recently, we issued a challenge to the world to “ to make the most awesome book trailer of all time.” Yesterday, we found the following in our mailbox: Our gauntlet had been picked up by The Glossary, a new book-video production company with a smart philosophy on…
August 2, 2011
Wine, tea, kindred spirits, and statistics… The Art of the Novella Reading Challenge begins…
MobyLives is officially on hiatus for August, but we couldn’t help but give a hand to all the diehard bibliophiles who are partaking in The Art of the Novella Challenge this month—with particular thanks and admiration directed towards Frances at Nonsuch Books who came up…
August 1, 2011
Gone fishing …
For the next month MobyLives will be observing the book industry holiday known as August. That means that while we will continue to post notice of ongoing contests, give-aways, new releases and the like — we’ve got at least one major announcement planned — the…
ART OF THE NOVELLA Reading Challenge
Inspired by Frances Evangelista, of the Nonsuch Book blog, and her quest to read all of our 42 novellas in one month we’re dedicating August to the Art of the Novella Reading Challenge. To boost the craziness of the contest we’re going to be giving away daily prizes…