The future of novel-writing, as seen in the past
Dennis Johnson
Get ready for a sort of rarity: The big publishing machine in New York doing what it usually does — a mega-rollout featuring the usual power-broker suspects — except this… Read more »
Get ready for a sort of rarity: The big publishing machine in New York doing what it usually does — a mega-rollout featuring the usual power-broker suspects — except this… Read more »
Melville House author David Graeber is the star of “Barter That,” a parody of Young Money’s “Roger That” video produced by students in a York University anthropology class. In the song, Graeber’s rethinking of the history of barter… 1 / Read more »
This comes via FADER TV: Read, and listen, to more from Dave Tomkins and the vocoder by checking out Melville House’s How to Wreck a Nice Beach paperback and record deal. Over… Read more »
Heinrich Böll’s Irish Journal is one of three books Melville House is offering for a discounted price as part of its St. Patrick’s Day Book Bundle. The video below could… Read more »
All the memorable phrases, the fact that everybody’s read him and practically knows his work by heart — who could be a better subject for Pictionary than Cormac McCarthy?
How did we miss this? It seems the perfect match-up — Kurt Vonnegut talks to Jon Stewart. About a book he did with a small press, no less (Seven Stories).
I know, I know, the New York Times and The Guardian write about Downton Abbey every day and the damn thing is sanctified. Oh yeah? Not so fast, you bougy… Read more »
View the video below to see Oprah Winfrey as she promos the ultimate book club, in a skit on Jimmy Kimmel’s post-Oscar show — Oprah’s “Book Club Fight Club.”
The novelist Daniel Alarcón is looking for funding for a new initiative, and it’s a good one: he and his colleagues at Radio Ambulante aim to create a Spanish-language radio… Read more »
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into YouTube, Washington Post book critic Ron Charles is back …