Melville House Books

The annual stop-the-insane-budget-cuts dance is over. The fight to save jobs and prevent massive layoffs and closures of the New York Public Library has resulted in success. Here’s the statement… Read more »

That loud, nasal, and somewhat raspy air-suck sound you heard this afternoon was the noise made by the collectively inhaled breaths of nerds all over the planet Earth. The p.r.… 4 / Read more »

More highbrow sports commentary at Grantland, where Brian Phillips describes Roger Federer’s Wimbledon loss to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in literary terms. Whereas “Tsonga tiptoed around the court like Ferdinand the Bull…Federer, by contrast, played like… Read more »

Twitter helps unfinished book hit No.1 The Oxford comma is safe… for now What will the iPad do to the comic book industry The majority of science fiction readers read… Read more »