Melville House Books

Editors, like non-editors, fail frequently, but no aspect of the editor’s professional life is as perilous, or ultimately doomed, as copywriting. The entire act is quixotic at best: even the… Read more »

On Tuesday afternoon, the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon—which is currently, if you have not forgotten, in a bitter, protracted contract dispute with Hachette—is “in talks with Simon &… Read more »

Remember when Amtrak announced its writer’s residency program this past March and the entire literary community went crazy? Remember then, when Amtrak dashed all our hopes and dreams by claiming… Read more »

I really thought people would have learned by now. It’s a really bad idea to mess with Harper Lee. She’s Michael Jordan, everyone else is Byron Russell and it’s Game… Read more »