Melville House Books

Many readers will have now forgotten that back before Amazon, and Powells, and other retailers, Borders had the most popular on-line book retail business … thanks in no small part… Read more »

As it turns out, the cruelest, most unthoughtful critics of authors may be … other authors. As Michelle Kerns details in a piece for the San Francisco Chronicle called The… Read more »

According to a BBC News wire story, “A book given to a Devon branch of Oxfam has netted the charity’s largest windfall at an auction. The rare photo book, one… Read more »

The “cutting edge of literary studies” right now is “a rapidly expanding field that is blending scientific processes with the study of literature and other forms of fiction,” say a… 4 / Read more »

Since we are all so, so guilty of them… two more typos from this past week to spruce up your Thursday.  In honor of Penguin Australia’s GREATEST TYPO IN THE… Read more »