February 26, 2014

It’s rough out there on the bleeding edge of digital whatsit fiction. You’re on the last anti-chapter of your hyperlinked extra-illustrated mash-up of House of Leaves and Make Way for… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Protesting sexism, comic book artists pull out of running for Angoulême Grand Prix — Liam O'Brien
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing — Liam O'Brien
20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover — Kait Howard

@GSElevator not really @GS, not really in an elevator

Julia Fleischaker

@GSElevator, the Twitter account purportedly belonging to an anonymous Goldman Sachs banker who posted snippets overheard in the office elevator, was a social media success story. The tweets could be… Read more »

Short word or phrase: some words (sometimes a lot of words, actually) that convey the gist of the book

Kirsten Reach

Ruth Walker of the Christian Science Monitor opens her recent article on nonfiction titles with a letter to The Economist. Under the inspired headline “Colonic Irritation,” John Hansen of Cambridge,… Read more »

Another breakthrough in deciphering the Voynich Manuscript?

Nick Davies

2014 is shaping up to be the year of the Voynich Manuscript. The inscrutable text plays a major role in Rachel Cantor’sA Highly Unlikely Scenario, published by Melville House this… Read more »

The woman who mapped London’s streets into The A-Z

Zeljka Marosevic

Early in the twentieth century, Phyllis Pearsall was on her way to a party in Belgravia and had become lost in the winding streets of London. It was raining and… Read more »

Melville House Books

Teju Cole vs. Lupe Fiasco vs. Lian Yue: who’s in the vanguard of Twitter fiction?

Sal Robinson