Melville House Books

Morrissey’s debut novel finds itself in good company this week—according the BBC, the Smiths frontman joins Ben Okri, Norman Mailer, Sebastian Faulks, and John Updike as the most recent winner of the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction prize.… Read more »

In life, there are always big questions. But where can you find the big answers? From your local indie bookseller, of course! In this monthly feature, some of our favorite booksellers will… Read more »

What’s the difference between a 16-year old in Sweden and a 16-year old in Britain? In Britain, the government is planning to axe the study of gender equality and patriarchy… Read more »

Following the attacks in Paris on November 13, the French Booksellers Association (Syndicat de la Librairie Française, or SLF) has released a reading list designed to help people better understand the complex… Read more »

Richard Lea at The Guardian reports that a donation and accompanying tweet from JK Rowling has helped fully fund a campaign for a book called The Good Immigrant. According to… Read more »

Fitzcarraldo Editions launched last year with the UK publication of Zone by Mathias Énard—this year’s recipient of France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt prize. Since then, the publisher’s catalog has grown to include… Read more »

As a library patron, the right to privacy is a hugely important one, and when violations of that privacy become public, librarians tend to get pretty angry. And they’ve had cause… Read more »

Later this month, HarperCollins will publish reporter and humorist Hart Seely’s Bard of the Deal: The Poetry of Donald Trump, a book of poems crafted from interviews, speeches, and tweets… Read more »

In June of this year, MobyLives wrote about Iterating Grace, a 2,001 word chapbook making fun of, while making its way around, Silicon Valley. Now, according to Alexandra Alter at The… Read more »

There’s too much to read. This nagging anxiety afflicts everyone working in/for/around books at some point. And while it’s easy to see how luxurious a complaint it might be, it’s a… Read more »

For the Observer, Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke reports that while you were busy eating leftover turkey last weekend, the New York Times was grappling with a potential change to their style guide.… Read more »

E-retailers the world over are finally realizing the importance and joys of brick-and-mortar bookstores—or something like that. Yes, it would seem that physical bookstores are on the rise: there are tech-bros in… Read more »

The American city that spends the most money on books, magazines, and newspapers—Washington, D.C.—will soon be left without any chain bookstores.  Despite the recent revival of the brick-and-mortar bookshop (in London, and… Read more »

Our national retail binge—Black Friday, etc.—is over, and now, perhaps, purged of our desire, we respond to the other impulse that comes on strong at this time of year—charitable giving, and… Read more »

Why bother with a subway pass when you can swipe a book instead? Danny Lewis reports for The Smithsonian that L&PM Editores, São Paolo’s premier pocketbook publisher, is expanding its… Read more »

Two years after announcing its drone delivery service, Prime Air, Amazon released a new commercial for the service. The ad stars boorish, producer-punching Englishman Jeremy Clarkson, who, throughout its running time,… Read more »

In what is either a totally expected turn of events or the most left-field marketing campaign ever mounted, Neil Strauss’ infamous pickup-artist-Bible The Game has been linked to a pair of… Read more »

Complex and confusing, filled with words you don’t know and people you don’t understand, life is even more difficult to navigate than Ulysses. But luckily, we have Ulysses to help… Read more »

It has been a great year to be a dead author. Deceased thriller writers Steig Larsson, Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy, and Ian Fleming all have new books out. The… Read more »

Last week, The Guardian asked Melville House author Lars Iyer where in the world his most recent, deliciously bizarre novel, Wittgenstein Jr, came from. Below, reprinted with the author’s permission, is… Read more »

The news that Faber & Faber has just signed a book deal with comedian Stewart Lee provides us with 1. Reason to be happy and 2. An excuse to post the… Read more »

Waterstones is set to make a profit for the first time in five years—that is, if the chain continues to do well over Christmas. Waterstones’ managing director, James Daunt, told The… Read more »

Thrilling news, Brooklynites: Amazon is planning to open its first distribution center in the borough. The Real Deal’s Ariel Stulberg reported late last week that the online retail behemoth signed a seven-year… Read more »

“There are all these interesting African writers being published abroad,” states publisher Bibi Bakare-Yusuf in a video introduction to Cassava Republic Press, “and they’re not available locally. No one’s heard… Read more »

What happens when you can’t tell a troll from the people they’re making fun of? At The Daily Dot, Miles Klee introduces us to to jeremy1122, a Reddit troll who… Read more »

Deborah Treisman says that the fiction department at The New Yorker is “often frustrated by novellas: they can do so much, and yet we can’t do much with them. There… Read more »

If you’re bad at spelling, you could wind up in jail. Assuming, of course, that your plan is to poison your husband, misspell a word in a forged do-not-resuscitate statement,… Read more »