Melville House Books

Some of you may be wondering why no stories about the Frankfurt Book Fair. Well, we’re not lazy–we realize it’s one of the biggest stories in publishing every year. But… Read more »

Last week, after Ben Zimmer’s New York Times “On Language” column discussed the distastefulnessof using the first-person plural, we defended our use of the word “we” in this blog. We… Read more »

Anybody see Joe Queenan’s hackneyed attack on Jimmy Carter in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal? The column is headlined “Jimmy Carter: Can’t Stop the Typing,” and it refers to the… 10 / Read more »

  Once again we bring you the peculiar English vocabulary French author Jean-Christophe Valtat employs so ingeniously in his novel Aurorarama – words that often left our copy-editor perplexed as to what… 4 / Read more »

An Associated Press wire story reports that a man who had thrown a book “near” President Obama at a rally in Philadelphia on Sunday has been released by the Secret… Read more »