December 10, 2014

Brooklyn, NY, December 9, 2014 – Melville House has announced it will publish the Senate Intelligence Committee’s “Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program,” already being widely referred to… Read more »

Publishing

Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing — Liam O'Brien
After removing its books from Amazon, children’s publisher reports record profits — Kait Howard
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga denies eating his companion — Taylor Sperry

A case for how The New Republic was overwhelmed by changes in politics, not media

Claire Kelley

In the Atlantic this week, Peter Beinhart, former editor of The New Republic, argues that the takeover by Chris Hughes that resulted in the departure of top editors is less… Read more »

Old Foyles branch becomes laser tag venue

Zeljka Marosevic

In June Foyles Charing Cross moved from its iconic if charmingly labyrinthine building to the old Central St Martins Art School, which had undergone a custom redesign in order to… Read more »

Richard Flanagan donates book prize winnings to charity

Nick Davies

In October, Australian author Richard Flanagan was named the winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction—recently expanded to include any novel written in English, beyond the former restriction that… Read more »

What kind of garbage should we sell you directly through Twitter?

Kirsten Reach

Hachette Book Group is selling three titles directly through its authors’ Twitter accounts. The trial run includes three authors with substantial fan bases: astronaut Chris Hadfield, singer Amanda Palmer, and,… Read more »

Melville House Books

PRESS RELEASE: Melville House to publish Senate torture report

Melville House