Melville House Books

By the mid-1930s, F. Scott Fitzgerald had published some of his best known works—This Side of Paradise in 1920, The Great Gatsby in 1925, and Tender Is the Night in… Read more »

No book prize longlist may stand without a backlash, and this year’s Man Booker is no exception. Alan Bissett writes in The Guardian that the list, and the prize’s past… Read more »

J.K. Rowling has become somewhat of a anti-piracy pioneer. Her Pottermore-sold books all contain unique watermarks, which allow them to be tracked and identified if pirated. With the launch of… 1 / Read more »

Laughter in the Dark was the first of Vladimir Nabokov’s novels to be published in the United States, in 1938, by the then venerable Bobbs-Merrill of Indianapolis. The beautiful jacket… Read more »

Travis Alber and Aaron Miller both have undergraduate degrees in English, and Aaron also has a MFA in creative writing from Irvine. One might expect them to have typical literary… Read more »