Melville House Books

Thomas Dunne, publisher of the Macmillan imprint St. Martin’s Press has issued an “Important Letter” explaining the censorship of its book Operation Dark Heart by Anthony Shaffer. According to the… 8 / Read more »

According to a report by Rowenna Davis in the Guardian, Jonathan Franzen told an audience in London last night that the British printers of his book Freedom “mistakenly published an… Read more »

By the time a typical book review has introduced the author’s background, the characters, situation, and plot, there’s often previous room left to savor the unique qualities of the prose… Read more »

“Tech pundits recently moved up the date for the death of the book, to sometime around 2015,” notes Christopher Mim, “inspired largely by the rapid adoption of the iPad and… 4 / Read more »

An MFA professor who fell off the turnip truck in front of Columbia University has written a letter to students at her college where she used to work saying life… 4 / Read more »