In Paris, Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast becomes emblem of defiance
Along with the flowers and candles placed at the sites of last Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, mourners are also leaving copies of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. Bookstores are moving lots of… Read more »
Brewery starts literary mag for those who “like to think and drink”
The founder of Delaware-based brewing company Dogfish Head, Sam Calagione, has a habit of describing his product as “analog beer for the digital age.” Now, according to the company’s website, the former English major… Read more »
British bookstores respond to Black Friday with “Civilised Saturday”
Every year, Black Friday sales remind us that to be American is to love a good deal. (Indeed, here at Melville House, we’ve got our very own Black Friday sale… Read more »
The greatest TV show ever made about book publishing
It’s nigh-on impossible to find realistic portrayals of any job on television because television is (supposed to be) entertaining and actual jobs are boring. The most common professions depicted on TV—cop, lawyer, scientist, politician, and… Read more »
Contraband Cocktail Hour: Some years ago, at a flea market in Florida, Paul Dickson happened upon the Prohibition Era’s little black book—a six-ring binder filled with cocktail recipes dating to a period when even books on mixing… Read more »
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