Melville House Books

Here’s your chance to receive in the mail a one of a kind postcard, a dispatch, if you will, written by Leigh Stein. And not, you know “written” by Leigh… Read more »

In Britain, library patrons are not taking threatened closures to some 450 libraries in stride: they’ve announced that the 5th of February will be a nationwide day of action that… Read more »

The casual reader rarely realizes the amount and variety of work that goes into finding, editing, producing, promoting, and distributing the books they pick up in the bookstore, bring home, and learn… 2 / Read more »

I missed it when it originally appeared in the Guardian recently but, thankfully, as I was catching up on my Casual Optimist today, I caught this rather excellent comic strip… 4 / Read more »

In her most recent column for Salon, MobyLives heroine hero Laura Miller, never one to shy from calling a spade a spade, zeroes in on some serious and sexist misreading… 2 / Read more »

It seems that Sherlock Holmes is once again set to beat death and, one can assume, any mysteries he may encounter. The first time Holmes presumably entered the after life… 15 / Read more »