January 10, 2013

This is the time for periodicals that work well on the wider internet and function seamlessly on a device… Read more »

Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing — Liam O'Brien
After removing its books from Amazon, children’s publisher reports record profits — Kait Howard
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga denies eating his companion — Taylor Sperry

A year and a half after the start of the Occupy movement, Emory University’s Digital Scholarship Commons has pulled together thousands of geolocated tweets related to the movement nationwide to… Read more »

Obscure pleasures

Kevin Murphy

The Atlantic ran a story on its blog earlier this week about the many emotions for which English does not have words. Some examples include the euphoria first experienced upon falling… Read more »

Steve Albini to update “The Problem With Music”

Kelly Burdick

Twenty years ago, Steve Albini wrote an essay for The Baffler titled “The Problem with Music.” Albini is a musician and recording engineer, a member of the celebrated punk groups… Read more »

Melville House at the Modern Language Association

Claire Kelley

This past weekend, we packed a car full of novellas, Neversinks, and Last Interviews and set off to Boston for the annual Modern Language Association conference. This was the first… Read more »

Melville House Books

The sub-compact digital-only knitting magazine that will save publishing

Dustin Kurtz

Tweeting Occupy

Sal Robinson