Melville House Books

An Associated Press wire story says corrected copies of the UK version of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom have already been printed and are being rushed to stores by his UK publisher,… Read more »

Gambling addicts and literature lovers both took note when Carolyn Kellogg reported in the Los Angeles Times that Cormac McCarthy jumped into the second-favorite spot for the Nobel Prize, which… Read more »

The reviews for nominees of the Guardian’s Not The Booker prize are starting to come in and Lee Rourke’s The Canal was the featured title yesterday. Sam Jordison said in his… 8 / Read more »

Two surveys from last month provide a rosy picture of the impact of eReaders on literacy. This Harris Interactive survey reports that eReader owners read more after buying their devices. “Over… 4 / Read more »

In a book filled with Inuit lingo, Victorian argot, and pure linguistic fabrications, it’s understandable that our copy-editor was not always sure which words in Jean-Christophe Valtat’s novel Aurorarama were… Read more »

For 35 years actor Charles Collingwood has appeared on the popular BBC radio soap opera The Archers (the world’s longest-running soap, according to its Wikipedia entry), and last year he… Read more »