Melville House Books

Merriam-Webster has revealed its word of the year and, in what appears to be a fast-growing tradition, it is not technically a word. Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is a… Read more »

An extraordinary collection of pugnacious, charming, and revealing interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning author who defined and transformed American literature. Ernest Hemingway was not only known for his understated style,… Read more »

The Associated Press recently broke the news of a major event in celebrity-focused crowdsourced publishing: Simon & Schuster will publish a crowdsourced book on Taylor Swift that fans will help create.… Read more »

Jean-Marie Roughol, a panhandler on the streets of Paris for 27 years and running, has sold upwards of 50,000 copies of his memoir, My Life as a Panhandler: A Life on… Read more »

William Shakespeare has been credited with no less than inventing the human, but fresh research from Dr. John-Mark Philo of East Anglia University suggests that the bard’s Lady Macbeth might… Read more »

A hilarious and revealing look at one of America’s most beloved screenwriters. Packed with her characteristic wit, wisdom, and charm, this collection of interviews with Nora Ephron celebrates a treasured voice in… Read more »

In the latest dispatch from the world of publishing fraud, a California couple has pled not guilty after being charged with, among other things, a publishing services scam that allegedly netted them $300,000.… Read more »

The editor-in-chief of Out magazine and founder of Grand Editorial, Aaron Hicklin, has just started a new venture: One Grand, a bookstore that only stocks titles handpicked by Tilda Swinton, Lena Dunham, Michael Pollan, Edmund White, and… Read more »

Times are tough for the chain booksellers, apparently—the last tumultuous decade in book selling has seen the disappearance of Borders as well as a relentlessly diminishing Barnes & Noble franchise, and now Publishers Weekly… Read more »

This collection of conversations with Philip K. Dick—on sale tomorrow—ranges from his very first interview, when he was just a 26-year-old kid from Berkeley, to the last, conducted the day before he suffered… Read more »

In June 2014, upon reading about the discovery of new poems by Pablo Neruda, Michael Wiegers, executive editor at the nonprofit poetry publisher Copper Canyon Press, wrote the Neruda Foundation,… Read more »

A psychology professor at the University of Alberta claims to have found the scientific answer to that age-old question: why is Dr. Seuss so funny? Chris Westbury was conducting research… Read more »

In publishing, the holiday season is a time to look back and celebrate the most successful books of the year. Unless, that is, you live in notoriously book-friendly Iceland, where many… Read more »

You might have heard about a book that came out recently—a little thing called City on Fire (944 pages)? Or, maybe you read something about A Little Life (rather big,… Read more »

After a 30 year career that has allowed her to interview politicians, presidents, and cultural icons, public radio host Diane Rehm has announced that she’ll be retiring from her eponymous… Read more »

Almost a year ago to the day, Penguin Random House closed their nearly 500,000 square foot facility in Kirkwood, New York, laying off 286 workers in the process. Coupled with… Read more »

In the Huffington Post, Maddie Crum takes a look at this nifty piece of paper gadgetry designed by Kelli Anderson that’s both a book and a camera! More precisely, it is a pop-up, cardboard camera… Read more »

In Russia, yesterday marked the first day of what will be a week-long marathon reading of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Coordinated by Fekla Tolstaya, Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter, the event seeks to finish reading… Read more »

In case you missed it, earlier this week Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. The proposal is not only totally illegal,… Read more »

The University of Connecticut’s co-operative book store has put its dukes up after the university signaled that it’s considering replacing the venerable co-op with a privately run retailer. According to Shelf-Awareness, the… Read more »

Controversy has been compounded with more controversy in the story of a drawing thought by some to be a lost work by Leonardo da Vinci. La Bella Principessa features an aristocratic… Read more »

In this season of “Best of” lists, BBC Culture has outdone everyone. Rather than produce a list of the best books of the year, BBC has compiled a list of… Read more »

In “a satirical gesture, just to let off some impotent steam,” author Michel Faber has sent a gratis copy of his latest (and, he says, his final) novel, The Book… Read more »

Yesterday, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich delivered the annual Nobel Lecture in Literature, at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Past lectures have provided fascinating windows into prizewinners’ life and work, and… Read more »

Glasgow-based publisher Freight Books is facing criticism for allegedly using public arts funding from Creative Scotland to publish a laudatory book about members of the ruling Scottish National Party parliament. The book in… Read more »

Michael Bible’s Sophia—on sale today—is a kind of Southern Dream Song, or a gonzo Speedboat, that tells the story of the unholy Reverend Maloney and his best friend, a chess… Read more »

Wednesday, December 9th marks the one-year anniversary of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. While publication of the report did much to make visible the horrific… Read more »