Nick Offerman to play Ignatius J. Reilly on stage
Nick Davies
John Kennedy Toole’s ode to New Orleans and some of its grosser inhabitants, A Confederacy of Dunces, is heading to the stage this fall, and the show has just announced… Read more »
John Kennedy Toole’s ode to New Orleans and some of its grosser inhabitants, A Confederacy of Dunces, is heading to the stage this fall, and the show has just announced… Read more »
Boston may not have New York’s bookish reputation, but the city’s literary history is undeniable. Over the years, the city has housed such notable writers and thinkers as Louisa May… Read more »
When images of the new statue of Edgar Allan Poe to be installed in central Boston later this year were circulated online last week, there was something awfully familiar about… Read more »
Downtown Boston is set to become the US’s very first literary cultural district, Beth Teitell writes for the Boston Globe. It’s not 100% certain exactly what that will entail, or what… Read more »
Book-loving travelers of New England suffered an almost catastrophic blow in the spring of 2013 when Chicago-based chain Barbara’s Bookstores was forced to shutter its store in Boston’s South Station… Read more »
Last week, Melville House staffers Claire Kelley and Dustin Kurtz, and publishers Valerie Merians and Dennis Johnson, braved the storm that dumped a foot of snow on Boston to travel there for… Read more »
The AWP, otherwise known as the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, is holding its annual conference and bookfair this weekend in Boston, and Melville House will be there! Come… Read more »
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 »