January 21, 2013

King’s letter is a key civil rights text; in it he argued that the fight against racial segregation had to be taken to the streets… Read more »

Melville House Authors

What Would Leopold Bloom Do? Volume 4 — Josh Cook
Looking into a Magic Mirror: On My Unusual Words and Phrases — Josh Cook
Season's Greetings---and suggested reading---from the Melville House team — Melville House
Congrats to our #TitleYourHoliday winners! — Melville House

Video of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech removed on Internet Freedom Day

Ariel Bogle

The perversity of copyright overreach was on display last week when footage of Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech was removed from the digital video site Vimeo.… Read more »

Predictable old crank is against NEH Muslim Journeys program

Last year, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association initiated a program, Muslim Journeys, intended to provide libraries across the country with a collection of books… Read more »

All your excuses are invalid: the seventy-five year old winner of a prize for emerging writers

Dustin Kurtz

The semiannual Akutagawa prize was awarded in Japan this past Wednesday, and this season’s winner was Natsuko Kuroda. The Akutagawa prize, begun in 1935, is awarded for stories published in… Read more »

Wikipedian in Residence: Actually a real thing

Nick Davies

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week that the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library has appointed an official Wikipedian in Residence. The library selected Michael Barera, a master’s student… Read more »

Melville House Books

The story behind MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

Claire Kelley