Melville House Books

It’s number five on the New York Times bestseller list — but is Sarah Palin’s second book, America by Heart a flop? Yes, says the Washington Post. According to a… 4 / Read more »

He was a New York punk in the 1970s, then an “incidiary” novelist … on his way to succeeding Vladimir Putin as leader of Russia? As Marc Bennetts explains of… 6 / Read more »

I’m not a luddite but I’m not totally platform indifferent either; I will choose a bound book over the e-other if forced to choose. Yet truth be told, I am excited… 4 / Read more »

Okay, Google eBooks is finally here, and everyone’s talking about what it means for retailers who have joined up with Google to put themselves out of business sell ebooks. But… 2 / Read more »

He’s one of America’s leading critics of fiction, so is it a sign of the literary apocalypse that Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post found not ten but only two… Read more »

I can’t get enough of Electric Literature’s “Single Sentence Animations” lately. This stop-motion animation of a sentence from Lydia Davis’s story “The Cows” is a particular favorite. Enjoy.