Melville House Books

              “Celebrated author Jonathan Franzen narrowly loses book award to a lady writer! Again!” quipped Tournament of Books “booth commentator” Kevin Guilfoile after Jennifer Egan’s A Visit… Read more »

This week at Melville House, we’re busy launching Is Journalism Worth Dying For?, which collects many of the final essays Anna Politkovskaya wrote before her murder in 2006. But although… 2 / Read more »

At the Paris Book Fair last week, the man known as French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s “pit bull” — trade minister Frédéric Lefevbre — put his foot in it. According to… Read more »

Philosophical self-help by Alain de Botton Borders to carry Motorola Xoom Should authors take on corporate sponsors Continuum opens its own eBookstore 10 deranged literary characters Very Short Stories Publishing… Read more »