Melville House Books

William Faulkner

• Writing a novel? Don’t quit your day job.

  In his new book Daily Rituals, Mason Currey examines the creative processes that have kept writers, composers, and artists going throughout history. One secret to success? Keep your day job. As… Read more »

• Writing is a vice, explains William Faulkner

  The University of Virginia library’s archive is an absolute treasure trove of audio clips of 20th century authors reading and discussing both their own work and that of others. A… Read more »

• SHIRTLESS SIGHTING: Mark Twain

  Faithful readers of MobyLives may recall last year’s sultry slideshow of writers in their underpants, including figures like Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, William Carlos Williams, and William Faulkner.… Read more »

• SLIDESHOW: Writers in underpants

  On a recent afternoon, in the middle of some research for an upcoming book, I fell down a Google rabbit hole and landed on a Polish blog post with the… 1 / Read more »

• SLIDE SHOW: When writers attack … other writers

  Wordsmiths, obviously, should know how to sting other writers. But some have proven especially good at it. Herewith, the ten historic barbs we think the most notable and the story… 1 / Read more »

• The Sound and the Fury, hold the fury

  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 »

• SLIDE SHOW: The private world of great writers

  The website Apartment Therapy has posted a slideshow of fifteen writers’ bedrooms, many of which are an interesting reflection of the authors’ works and personalities. Victor Hugo’s apartment on Paris’… Read more »