Melville House Books

A new Melville House book out this week by New Yorker editor Ben Greenman takes the art of writing fiction about music to new heights. Called Please Step Back, it… Read more »

“A librarian at Oxford’s Bodleian Library has unearthed the earliest-known book dust jacket,” reports Michelle Pauli in a story for The Guardian. She says the jacket dates to 1830 and… Read more »

Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan were long the British equivalent of Oprah, better known as just Richard and Judy. But they’ve moved over from their popular big-time TV morning show… Read more »

Minneapolis-St. Paul’s WCCO-TV reports ” An 11-year-old Farmington boy has written, illustrated and published his first children’s book.” Ben Heckmann, a fifth grader, has inked the first book in a… 2 / Read more »