April 22, 2014

If we’re at the point of using ‘amazon’ as a verb, allow me to suggest a few definitions. In an online tease for a BBC2 documentary about Amazon, the world’s… Read more »

Amazon

After removing its books from Amazon, children’s publisher reports record profits — Kait Howard
Amazon picks up The Last Tycoon adaptation, casts Kelsey Grammer in lead — Liam O'Brien
Book spotted in San Bernardino shooting suspects' home inspires Amazon review battle — Liam O'Brien
Amazon shows New Jersey a thing or two about traffic — Liam O'Brien

Special performance of “Fun Home” after the book costs Charleston college its funding

Kirsten Reach

Here’s a new way to fight a book ban: bringing award-winning musical theater to your college campus. Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home—a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist that… Read more »

What Maisie Knew screenwriter sued for libel in fiction

Nick Davies

Henry James’s novel What Maisie Knew, about a young girl shuttled between her divorced and dysfunctional parents, was published more than a century ago, in 1897. But, Eriq Gardner writes… Read more »

Karel Gott, “the Czech Presley and Pavrotti rolled into one”

Claire Kelley

As Mariusz Szczygieł, the award-winning Polish journalist, says in his cultural biography of Czechoslovakia Gottland (coming in May from Melville House), Karel Gott “is the Czech Presley and Pavrotti rolled into… Read more »

The challenge of translating Finnegans Wake

Andrew McGrath

Last year Shanghai People’s Publishing House released the first part of Dai Congrong’s Chinese translation Finnegans Wake. The book was an instant bestseller, clearing through its initial print-run of 8,000 copies… Read more »

Melville House Books

What does it mean to ‘amazon’ something?

Dustin Kurtz