Melville House Books

I’ll never forget the time in 2003 when I was sitting alone in an empty airport waiting room in Washington DC, waiting for an author to arrive, when my cell… Read more »

Word Up, the pop-up volunteer-run bookstore in Washington Heights, might be a more permanent fixture in the neighborhood if the shop’s creators are able to negotiate a new agreement with… 2 / Read more »

Rebecca Swift is the founder of Britain’s first and leading manuscript assessment service, The Literary Consultancy, established in 1996. She talked to MobyLives about the many different paths to publication… 1 / Read more »

We don’t often report about newspapers adding new book columns — er, check that: we’ve never reported on a newspaper adding a new book column — but one of the… Read more »

As Owen Jarus details in a report for MSNBC’s LiveScience, the poem was discovered in the West Virginia University library by visiting professor Elaine Treharne of Florida State University. Translating… 2 / Read more »

Jane Austen was born on the 16th of December in 1775 in Hampshire, England, and quickly began a lifelong relationship with books, becoming a voracious reader and then, as we… Read more »

Pirates of the Amazon Paris museum wins Bronte bidding war Dear Mr. Vonnegut What Slate doesn’t get about bookstores Top 10 author appearances on the Simpsons Bookforum on Debt Russian… Read more »