It rained the evening of November’s meeting of the Melville House Book Club, and I don’t think a single one of us thought to bring along an umbrella. I certainly didn’t. Some… Read more »

Good news! As you may have already heard, Melville House has teamed up with Brooklyn Roasting Company to get totally ripped on coffee and books in a safe space among friends… Read more »

Forensic scientists in Madrid are packing up their infrared cameras and their 3D scanners now that they’ve definitively identified the remains of Miguel de Cervantes, the great Spanish author of… Read more »

Book publishing is a famously mysterious industry, and the publication process itself is full of steps and layers that often remain unknown to the general public. But at a meeting… Read more »

When Miguel de Cervantes died in 1616, he was penniless and his body was full of bullets. As Jorge Sainz at The Associated Press explains, although Don Quixote was a success,… Read more »

San Francisco artist Boethius has been leaving lovely and unsettling works of art in the pages of books in indie bookstores across that city. Each drawing is done on a… Read more »

The Battle of the Beards continues as the Star Tribune picks up yesterday’s glove and points out yet more overlooked beards. Add in a few reader suggestions and we were… 1 / Read more »