Three for Tuesday: An Interview with Tim Parks
Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »
New York Public Library Library Lions Gala honors Atwood, Eggers, Ishiguro, Robert B. Silvers, and Anna Deavere Smith
The New York Public Library held its annual Library Lions gala on Monday night, presenting honors to Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Kazuo Ishiguro, Robert B. Silvers, and Anna Deavere Smith. New York… Read more »
McSweeney’s to become a nonprofit publisher
McSweeney’s, the sixteen year-old publishing company in San Francisco, is filing for nonprofit status, according to an announcement on its webpage this week. At Melville House, we know as well… Read more »
The meta-narrative of Dave Eggers’ and Kate Losse’s books about female experience at powerful internet companies
Last weekend, an excerpt from Dave Eggers’ new novel The Circle, about a young woman who goes to work at a powerful internet company, was published in the New York… Read more »