Melville House Books

Someone buy Mayor Richard Daley a drink. In a move that’s counter to the national trend, Michael Kelley reported in Library Journal this week that the mayor and the Chicago City… Read more »

The University Archives website — an auction house that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with a university — is offering another look into the deep reclusiveness of J.D.… Read more »

Put your wallet away. The holiday gift you were planning for that bird-watching someone in your life, has just been sold — for $11.5 million dollars, no less, a record… Read more »

Last week, the sci-fi superblog Io9 hailed our author Jean-Christophe Valtat’s wildly inventive Arctic fantasia Aurorarama as a top 10 sci-fi gift novel (“a wildly different take on the genre”). In this week’s… Read more »

Atlantic editors favorite books of 2010 Words, Words, Words Philip Larkin would have loved this More press for against Amazon Great SNL booktrailer 5 under 35 Could it be that… Read more »