March 28, 2014

Earlier this week, we reported that prisoners in the UK are no longer allowed to receive books in the mail (nor underwear, birthday cards, and so on). The policy doesn’t… 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

Guess what? Your pizza box is probably made of NSA records

Sal Robinson

Here at Melville House, there are two subjects that can, without fail, rouse us from our winter torpors: pizza boxes and the NSA. One, we published the definitive book on, and the… Read more »

Fifty Shades movie annoys people by not being filthy enough

Julia Fleischaker

It looks like the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey is going to be less Skinemax, more Lifetime. According to reports from CinemaCon, where Universal Studios screened the first… Read more »

What this world needs is some more boxed library

Martin Rouse

The timing may be coincidental, but it doesn’t feel that way. In the same week that the UK faced criticism for restricting book flow into prisons (covered here by our… Read more »

Poem that made fun of generic brand videos becomes a generic brand video

Zeljka Marosevic

Last month, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency published a poem by Kendra Eash entitled “This is a generic brand video” which poked fun at the stock language and footage that is often used… Read more »

Melville House Books

Prison reading isn’t exactly vacation reading

Kirsten Reach