Melville House Books

It’s a publisher’s worst nightmare: A new book from Holt about the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima, Japan, The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino, has gotten off to… Read more »

Walter Kirn wrote the book that was the basis for one of the year’s most celebrated movies, Up in Air, which starred George Clooney and netted six Oscar nominations …… Read more »

A handwritten memoir by “the 18th century lothario, spy, writer and adventurer whose name has become an international synonym for lover”—Jacques Casanova—that “that shocked publishers two centuries ago,” and “was… Read more »

According to this report on WMAZ TV of Macon, Georgia, people were lining up outside Central Park City Library for their annual book sale, “Hundreds of booklovers lined up in… 2 / Read more »