Melville House Books

An article by Spanish and Portuguese translator Jethro Soutar in the Guardian last week has shed light on the role that literary translators sometimes find themselves playing: lifeline. Soutar is the… Read more »

Poor Joseph Heath. According to him, he was just taking the kind suggestion of a colleague—a librarian at Becker College, where he was employed as a janitor–to “take whatever you… Read more »

Alexis Kleinman at The Huffington Post has reported on a new program, Spritz, that holds the promise of speed reading for the masses. According to Spritz’s website, “reading is inherently time consuming… Read more »

When I was in middle school, I was incredibly honored to get an email response from Anne McCaffrey for a school project that I had to route through her publicist.… Read more »