Melville House Books

Yesterday MobyLives reported that ads are coming to the cheapest Kindle. A scary prospect to be sure–and probably the first small step in the direction of a fundamental shift– but… Read more »

A new cache of Walt Whitman’s writing — literally, his handwriting — has been discovered in the National Archive. According to a report in the Washington Post, the National Archive… Read more »

In his most recent Vanity Fair column, Christopher Hitchens discusses “one of the greatest literary dissidents and subversives who ever lived,” the vicious saint he was up against, and the… Read more »

How book publishing has changed Ayn Rand-O-Mania???? Reading as a legal drug iPad continues to dominate tablets The Orange Prize Shortlist Will publishers stay relevant There’s an International day against… Read more »