Melville House Books

Book Expo America, going on now in New York City, is notable for its events featuring mega-bestselling writers and somebody-wrote-it-for-me celebrities whose further promotion goes beyond unnecessary into the realm… 16 / Read more »

Last week Moby Lives reported on the ongoing budget crisis New York libraries are facing under Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s budget proposal. Yesterday, Reuven Blau of the New York Daily News… Read more »

(Via Biblioklept) A copy of the passport application, submitted at the age of 37 by the round-chinned, straight-nosed, oval-face Herman Melville, long after his seafaring days were over and his… Read more »

The Washington Post brings us this report on a women’s book group that met every fourth Sunday to discuss books and to socialize. That is, until the fateful day when… 2 / Read more »

Boys ‘can’t read past 100th page’ Wodehouse prize goes to Shteyngart Open Road Media get $8million Would more bad book reviews make better books? 1 in 3 downloaded books is… Read more »