In this, the penultimate installment, we again introduce the rare and wonderful English language used by Jean-Christophe Valtat in his novel Aurorarama – language that often stumped our dear copy-editor. Today’s… Read more »
The passing on Monday of indie bookstore legend Carla Cohen reminded us that among the many wonderful things she has bequeathed us is what may be the very best in-store… Read more »
A few years ago, when Melville House was still a company headquartered at my kitchen table, the co-owner of that kitchen table — Valerie — and I found ourselves in… 2 / Read more »
Some of you may be wondering why no stories about the Frankfurt Book Fair. Well, we’re not lazy–we realize it’s one of the biggest stories in publishing every year. But… Read more »
Last week, after Ben Zimmer’s New York Times “On Language” column discussed the distastefulnessof using the first-person plural, we defended our use of the word “we” in this blog. We… Read more »
Anybody see Joe Queenan’s hackneyed attack on Jimmy Carter in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal? The column is headlined “Jimmy Carter: Can’t Stop the Typing,” and it refers to the… 10 / Read more »
Once again we bring you the peculiar English vocabulary French author Jean-Christophe Valtat employs so ingeniously in his novel Aurorarama – words that often left our copy-editor perplexed as to what… 4 / Read more »
An Associated Press wire story reports that a man who had thrown a book “near” President Obama at a rally in Philadelphia on Sunday has been released by the Secret… Read more »
To most of the world, last Friday’s awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the jailed dissident writer and literature professor Liu Xiaobo was, as the New York Times termed… Read more »
In a 9/22 New York Times article, Isabel Kershner reports: Peace Now, the leftist Israeli group that advocates a two-state solution and monitors settlement activity, took a planeload of Israeli… Read more »