Melville House Books

Last week, Pablo Dittborn (the Editor-in-Chief of Random House Chile) discussed issues with transcontinental publishing with Andres Hax in Publishing Perspectives. Their conversation was thought provoking and surprising, since we… Read more »

The first US edition of Moby Dick was published 160 years ago yesterday. Happy birthday, namesake! In celebration, HarperCollins published a copy of the original contract for The Whale as signed by Herman… Read more »

On Friday, Willamette Week posted an interview with James Tracy, the co-author (along with Amy Sonnie) of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power—the rarely told history of white… Read more »

Yesterday The Irrawaddy published Dyah Paramita’s interview with Andreas Harsono, an Indonesian writer who specializes in the increasingly rare craft of long form journalism. The pair discussed human rights, the… Read more »

Authors Guild against Amazon library lending Jane Austen murdered!? ‘Penguin Shorts’ Jeff Bezos owns the web Sears and Kmart to carry Nook Adopt a bookshop NY _____. The Writing Cheatsheet… Read more »