Melville House Book Club discusses Cervantes, satire, and syphilis
It rained the evening of November’s meeting of the Melville House Book Club, and I don’t think a single one of us thought to bring along an umbrella. I certainly didn’t. Some… Read more »
The Department of Labor picks “Bartleby the Scrivener” for its “Books That Shaped Work in America” list
The Department of Labor, begrudgingly founded by William Howard Taft on the last day of his presidency, turned 100 last year and celebrated by compiling a reading list of “Books… Read more »
Melville House at the Modern Language Association
This past weekend, we packed a car full of novellas, Neversinks, and Last Interviews and set off to Boston for the annual Modern Language Association conference. This was the first… Read more »
Is Herman Melville providing the message for Occupy Wall Street?
Above, two posters spotted in New York advertising May Day festivities connected to Occupy Wall Street. (The poster on top is hanging in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the other in the… 2 / Read more »
Occupy the holidays with our Occupy Wall St. Bag bundle
Help loved ones Occupy their preferred holiday this year with our ready-to-go Occupy Wall Street bundle. This amazing offer will help friends and relatives avoid being caught flat-footed by Koch… Read more »
Illuminations for Bartleby The Scrivener: Herman Melville’s Inexcusable Insanity
With the release of The Duel x5 earlier this year, Melville House announced a new digital innovation, HybridBooks, which combines the concept of a digitally enhanced eBook with the printed… 2 / Read more »