The Pulitzer Prize, take two
Nick Davies
Since the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to present an award for fiction in 2011 last month, the New York Times invited eight literary experts to pick their winners for the… Read more »
Since the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to present an award for fiction in 2011 last month, the New York Times invited eight literary experts to pick their winners for the… Read more »
London, 1 May 2012 — The Alliance of Radical Booksellers has announced that Melville House’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber was the winner of the 2012 Bread and Roses… Read more »
A point of clarification after yesterday’s post about the decision not to award anybody with the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year: it was the Pulitzer Board that decided not… Read more »
The Pulitzer Prizes were given out on Monday, with awards going to the Philadelphia Inquirer for public service in journalism, The Stranger’s Eli Sanders for feature writing, and the late Manning Marable’s… 1 / Read more »
I know, I know, we’re supposed to be a bunch of highbrows over here at Melville House. Britain’s Independent newspaper called us an “upscale” publisher, some academic in Australia has… Read more »
Forty-five years ago Oxford University Press published the first edition of William H. McNeill’s survey, A World History. It’s still in print. Now in its fourth edition, the book has… Read more »
South Korean novelist Shin Kyung-sook’s novel Please Look After Mom has won the Man Asian Literary Prize, it was announced yesterday in Hong Kong. It is the first time the… Read more »
“Each year, the editors of the Believer generate a short list of the novels and story collections they thought were the strongest and most underappreciated of the year,” and this… Read more »
In their newly-released March issue, Scholastic’s Parents magazine announces a list of the top one hundred books for kids. Culled from over 500 titles suggested by literacy experts, educators, and parents, the… 4 / Read more »
“His ‘killingly fair-minded and viciously funny” review of the Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham’s latest book, By Nightfall, has won novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones the inaugural Hatchet Job of… Read more »