Melville House Books

How do you take a 265,000-word novel and condense it into manageably sized, 140-character chunks? That’s the question one man seeks to answer this Thursday, June 16th, or Bloomsday, the… 1 / Read more »

In the introduction to Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985), Postman relates our society to that of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World,… Read more »

Lionel Shriver’s deeply disturbing and bestselling 2003 novel We Need To Talk About Kevin has now been made into an “unrelentingly bleak film” starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Riley as… Read more »

Perhaps this story points to the untapped potential of our spaces, how underutilized our buildings really are and that, if we just use our imaginations and drop our inhibitions, we can… 1 / Read more »

House made of bookcases American Psycho 20 years later April bookstore sales rise 1.8% Dictionary of dead language complete after 90 years Has Digitization Increased Errors in Books? Huffington Post… Read more »