Melville House Books

Just a few months after being ousted from his just-acquired position as head of Penguin International amidst a burgeoning sexual harrassment scandal, David Davidar has landed a book contract for… Read more »

Trouble-magnet Jonathan Franzen has his glasses back. As per yesterday’s MobyLives story, it all started when Franzen was at a party to celebrate, well, “the newly corrected and reprinted book”… 2 / Read more »

We’ve been having a bit of fun pointing out the silliness of some of the new technological offerings RE e-reading lately. I’m sure the first bound books seemed a little… 10 / Read more »

Ben Zimmer, in a New York Times Magazine column titled “The perils of a presumptuous pronoun,” examines the long history of distaste for the first-person plural or “Royal We.” The… 2 / Read more »

  We return with another English word from Jean-Christophe Valtat’s Aurorarama that stumped our copy-editor. williwaw: a sudden violent squall blowing offshore from a mountainous coast. Valtat explains how he… 2 / Read more »

The ebook seems to be catching on a tad slower in the UK than in the US, despite the solid launch there of devices such as the Kindle and the… 6 / Read more »