Melville House Books

As a weird tangential story to this week’s tumult surrounding e-books (see this story by Julie Bosman in the New York Times about a couple of e-books priced higher than… 2 / Read more »

“There now is your insular city of Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs — commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets… Read more »

We return to the obscure but delightful English words that French author Jean-Christophe Valtat uses in his novel Aurorarama – words that had our copy-editor reaching for her dictionary. apperceive: to make… Read more »

Always a charming conversant, David Foster Wallace discusses the split in the U.S. market between commercial writing and more literary fare, and our growing inability to handle the alone-time of… Read more »

We recently reported on the betting odds for the Nobel and Man Booker literary prizes. It turns out the Nobel jury once again thwarted American authors and gambler’s expectation by… Read more »