Dan O'Connor

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

Memoirs for the ages ….

It’s a miracle that Keats’s letters to Fanny Brawne survived to be published. And painful to be reminded of what we will never read: Galileo’s letters to his daughter, destroyedRead more »

A schlemiel’s manifesto

During the last decades of the twentieth-century I slumbered in the certainty that I need never leave my naive ghetto of the humanities. Like others of my acquaintance who driftedRead more »

Ebooks around the world

The e-book has arrived in New Zealand. A story in the Dominon Post reports that Whitcoulls, one of New Zealand’s largest bookselling chains, will launch the country’s “first mainstream digitalRead more »

The geniuses behind DIY bookscanning

As if publishers —  especially small-time, independent publishers — didn’t have enough to worry about, what with the New York Times’ ”Ethicist” Randy Cohen telling everybody that it’s OK to steal books14 / Read more »

MobyLessons: Presentation copies

The online edition of The Henley Standard, “Delivering the news from Henley-on-Thames and South Oxfordshire for over 100 years,” reports that a Henley bookseller, Jonkers Rare Books, of Hart Street, hasRead more »

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