Melville House Books

A writing career isn’t always a lucrative proposition, but I’ve noticed that there’s suddenly a number of opportunities for writers to win a place to live. Now that I have… Read more »

A trove of writings by Mark Twain has been discovered by scholars at the University of California, Berkeley, Janie Har reports for the Associated Press. The prolific author lived for… Read more »

At first I’d wondered if I should be embarrassed that I’d never heard of the literary magazine Rhapsody: it’s published pieces by Anthony Doerr and Emily St. John Mandel and… Read more »

A rare bookseller, attempting to celebrate the dedication of this year’s International Book Fair to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, lost his prized first edition, signed copy of One Hundred Years of… Read more »