Melville House Books

It has long been my contention that much of what’s going on in the book business today has anything to do with what books are really supposed to be about… 3 / Read more »

The other day, Carolyn Kellogg at the Los Angeles Times brought up some interesting points about book blogging and review copies as a result of an unintentionally brusque e-mail from… 3 / Read more »

Book-industry professionals are often shy to criticise Amazon—it’s a biting the hand that feeds issue, even though ‘feed’ in this instance normally means ‘bully and coerce’. Of course, Melville House… 1 / Read more »

Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto lives! UPDATE: See below To celebrate the release (today!) of Gianni Rodari’s beloved Italian fable,Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto we’re giving you, dear reader, control of the price of… 1 / Read more »

A British scholar says she’s uncovered a lost portrait of Jane Austen that shows not the “frivolous and fey woman” portrayed in the few known portraits of her, but rather… Read more »

US Artists Literary Fellows More on the Google Books lawsuit Support your favorite University Press Literature For Life ‘Books in the Hood’ to close What’s your favorite simile, like? JibJab… Read more »