Dan O'Connor

Dan O'Connor is the Managing Editor of Melville House.

The codex and its future

I try to make a practice of looking on futureofthebook.com (devoted to the “preservation and persistence of the changing book”–“book”specified as the “codex book”) to be soothed by the orphic2 / Read more »

Random’s House

The logotype that identifies all Melville House books, found near the bottom of their spines, is composed of a triangle sitting off center atop a square — a black, geometricallyRead more »

Everything new is old again

How much some things have changed since the 1996 publication of Nicholas Negroponte’s bestselling book, Being Digital, can be measured by a snippet from a contemporaneous review by Roy Johnson.Read more »

Glenn Beck, writer-at-large

Glenn Beck’s latest foray into fiction, The Overton Window: A Thriller, is number 3 on Amazon’s bestseller list. It’s not on the New York Times list yet but as JenniferRead more »

Hail and farewell, Sarah

The story of an unlikely friendship between a writer and her elderly neighbor set against the evocative backdrop of a remote and beautiful coastal town in Maine, The Country of4 / Read more »

Summer reading in the echO chamber …

“O’s 2010 Summer Reading List” showed up in our email-boxes Friday — that’s from Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine —- promising twenty “Lush historical novels, wise contemporary tales and crowd-pleasing beachRead more »

IMPAC Prize goes to indie press

Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker has won the 2010 IMPAC prize for his debut novel, The Twin, published in the United States by fellow independent publisher — and Brooklynite — ArchipelagoRead more »

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