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• Win tickets to the IFC film premier of BONSÁI!

  Buy Bonsai the book, win tickets to Bonsai the movie Melville House is excited to offer five pairs of complementary tickets to the film premier of Bonsai at the New York IFC Center. Tickets… Read more »

• Melville House Recycling: What Bolaño Read

  This is the tenth installment in the two-week series “What Bolaño Read” by former Shaman Drum Bookstore manager Tom McCartan. The series celebrates the publication of Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview… Read more »

• SLIDESHOW: Found at The Strand

  As New Yorkers know, The Strand bookstore (family owned since 1927)  is a vast, sprawling expanse of new and used books, a place where you are liable to find nearly anything except—it… Read more »

• The miseries of shipping books for Amazon

  “I love being around books,” Mac McClelland writes. But the sentiment drips with sarcasm because McClelland is describing her experiences working for Amalgamated Product Giant Shipping Worldwide Inc., a third-party logistics contractors that fulfills shipments… 3 / Read more »

• The advantages for a writer of not being yourself

  When a novelist is published for the first time their potential is limitless. They could be a bestseller, a literary sensation, a genius. But the moment the reviews have run… Read more »

• Columbia artist creates a guerrilla library system throughout Manhattan

  On the heels of lawsuits levied against the city for the destruction of the Occupy Wall Street library, Columbia architecture school grad John Locke has clandestinely installed a pair of… 2 / Read more »

• Pulitzer-winning poet Louise Glück posts 5-star Yelp review of cleaning service

  Or actually, to be more exact, her assistant posted the review for her. (Via The Poetry Foundation) Here it is: Assuming these are actually her words, Glück’s Yelp shares with her poetry… Read more »

• Leigh Stein: “My greatest ambition was to ‘Be Anne Frank.’”

  Anne Frank is alive and well. That’s the premise in Shalom Auslander’s new novel Hope: A Tragedy, where Frank is old, uncouth, and typing away in the attic of a farmhouse. Frank… Read more »

• The world’s best pencil sharpener teaches his secrets

  David Rees, the world’s best and only artisanal pencil sharpener, came to Brooklyn on Monday, and gave the audience at Pete’s Candy Store an hour-long demonstration on the many techniques involved… 1 / Read more »

• The international bestseller by the “anti-leader” of OWS, available in print and ebook