On Wednesday (11/10) Melville House is pleased to be hosting the first public party for The Second Pass, the literary website founded by John WIlliams in 2009. Despite its youth,… Read more »

Today is the birthday of David John Moore Cornwell, aka John Le Carre. Born this day in 1931 in Dorset, England, Cornwell worked for the Britain’s intelligence services M15 and… Read more »

At the Guardian, two of contemporary literature’s most talked about young writers, Tom McCarthy, author of C, which has been short-listed for the Booker Prize, and Melville House’s own Lee… Read more »

While recent reports detail the floundering state of book conventions in the US, this weekend marks the fifth anniversary of a book festival that’s more popular than ever: the Brooklyn… Read more »

Eudora Welty talks with Beth Henley about the writing of one of her most famous stories, “A Worn Path” …. That’s the author herself reading the story under the opening… Read more »

Ray Bradbury, reigning King of Sci-fi, was transported via fiber optics from his home in Los Angeles to New York City yesterday. According to this post on the Wall Street… Read more »

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle does a sound check, then talks about how he came up with the idea for Sherlock Holmes, as well as a bit about some paranormal experiences… 2 / Read more »

One of our favorite journals is featuring one of our favorite authors: T Cooper, author of the newly released Beaufort Diaries (Melville House) is featured here in the most recent… Read more »

Back in the early days of book blogging, Jessa Crispin on her Bookslut blog back set the standard for what most have come to think of as a book blogger:… 2 / Read more »

In a wacky, retro 1960 interview from — we think — Canadian TV, the great writer and media theorist Marshall McLuhan talks about the future of books … or, whatever… Read more »