Melville House Books

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is why, on a warm fall day last year, James Frey was standing in… 1 / Read more »

If you’d had a spare $8,000-odd lying around over the last few days, you could now be the proud owner of Truman Capote’s typewriter. It’s just sold on ebay for $8,281,… Read more »

This article in the Guardian points to an interesting list of recent grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts—one of which is $40,000 and going to the University of… Read more »

April is just about out the door, and going with it is National Poetry Month. I’m sure it’s a very small number of people that actually care about poetry month.… Read more »

Franzen’s shameful storytelling Classics in the digital age 75th anniversary of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop Reading Northrop Frye Shift happens 7 thoughts on book reviews Edith Wharton’s hilarious vulgarity Divorce… Read more »