Recently, Emily Temple at Flavorwire ran her choices for the “most criminally overlooked books” this year. We don’t want to arrest anyone here at Melville House, although I would like… 5 / Read more »

Last week, Quentin Rowan, the disgraced serial plagiarist whose spy novel Assassin of Secrets proved to be massively plagiarized from dozens of other sources, wrote an essay at The Fix comparing… 4 / Read more »

There’s a smart debate afoot: Dean Starkman at Columbia Journalism Review started it by challenging “the limited vision of the news gurus,” a crew which he argues should include journalism… Read more »

We came across Jon Stich’s Occupy Amazon coasters and buttons (see photo) at Diesel bookstore’s website and fell in love. Stich, the artist-in-resident at maybe the most cutting-edge, independent bookstore… 3 / Read more »

It’s an unusual forum for talking about what happened at UC Davis last Friday, but the Amazon product page for “Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band… Read more »

Vladimir Sorokin, author of The Queue, Day of the Oprichnik, and The Ice Trilogy, is wrapping up month as writer-in-residence at Stanford University. Known as much for his shocking scenes… Read more »

On Friday, Willamette Week posted an interview with James Tracy, the co-author (along with Amy Sonnie) of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power—the rarely told history of white… Read more »

Yesterday The Irrawaddy published Dyah Paramita’s interview with Andreas Harsono, an Indonesian writer who specializes in the increasingly rare craft of long form journalism. The pair discussed human rights, the… Read more »

It seemed a big revelation: yesterday a Poynter Institute veteran named Julie Moos (“Director of Poynter Online and Poynter Publications”) accused pioneering media blogger Jim Romenesko of “a pattern of… Read more »

Al Jazeera English covered the bombing last week of the offices of the satirical French weekly magazine, Charlie Hebdo. Fingers are pointing to Islamic radicals, since the paper recently published… Read more »