Ken Kalfus, the author of, among other things, the funniest novel ever written about 9/11 and the best short story ever written about an IMF official, recently published a piece… Read more »

This week everyone’s favorite cloud computing and hemorrhoid cream dispensary Amazon announced their selection of “100 books to read in your lifetime.” They sent out a press release and everything.… Read more »

Terrible people are hard to shop for. We all know that. Think of the countless times you’ve picked out something meaningful for your favorite dead-eyed sociopathic Leader friend, only to… Read more »

Giving gifts is hard. Sometimes you know the person too well (“he doesn’t deserve this”) and sometimes you don’t know them well enough (“I think I once saw her touch… Read more »

New York is almost laughably full of authors, meaning that the folks at Flavorwire must have had a tough time making their selections… Read more »

Melville House has been in attendance at the Brooklyn Book Festival every year of the festival’s existence, and while we wouldn’t call ourselves experts, we do think we might be… Read more »

Let’s start with the facts: you read books. According to NEA surveys, about half of americans do not. But you are reading these very words on the website of a… 4 / Read more »

“There’s something about red books,” writes Donna Liquori in a Times-Union essay, “For the holidays, a pile of old red books really complements an evergreen bough on a table or mantle… Read more »

Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, has written a delightful list of the great works of literature he has not read: I have never got through Henry Green’s Living or Concluding, though neither… 1 / Read more »

The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 2 was released last month; the book reveals what the famous author was reading from 1941 to 1956, along with notes about the novels… Read more »