As a lover of printed matter and tactics of protest, it is with interest that I read the news of a massive demonstration this past Saturday in Qidong, an eastern… Read more »

In an essay in this week’s New Yorker titled “Easy Writers,” Arthur Krystal traces the history of guilty reading pleasures and finds the modernist novel responsible for drawing a hard… 1 / Read more »

A typo on the cover of the program for the commencement exercises  for the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin rendered the… 1 / Read more »

Ask somebody who has no truck with e-books why they don’t like the medium, and they’ll usually list the qualities a physical book has that are missing from the digital… Read more »

Welcome to MobyLives, your number one source of toilet paper-related news. In January we revealed to Herman Melville fans the world over what’s been missing from their lives: their favourite… 1 / Read more »

Here at Melville House, we’re no strangers to the particular pleasures of digital publishing, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still enjoy a bit of printmaking pornography now and then.… Read more »

Even the editors who rejected his manuscripts didn’t go this far: You can now use Herman Melville’s magnum opus, Moby Dick, as toilet paper. Typing the canonized favourite onto bog… Read more »

Yesterday, Edan Lepucki in The Millions wrote a great piece on the perils of self-publishing and the benefits of working with a small publishing house. She also noted that “the… 5 / Read more »

Two years ago, Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy wrote about a few pricey holiday gifts that bibliophiles will swoon over, such as a first edition of Ulysses published in 1922… 3 / Read more »

I know, I know, I said it was maddeningly predictable to talk about the smell of old books, but perhaps I should have qualified that: it’s not when you’ve gone… Read more »