Melville House Books

We’ve had chick-lit, hick-lit, Brit-lit and prick-lit; misery memoirs, mummy memoirs, country memoirs and hunting memoirs. The French have their own brand new area, supermarket-lit: The Tribulations of a Checkout… Read more »

“I’d hardly settled behind my desk when one of my bosses asked if I would join her in the corner office. ‘Please close the door,’ she said as I entered… Read more »

I know I spat corrosive vitriol about several Guardian Books series recently. I stand by those comments (but not the grammatical mistake that someone kindly pointed out). As if to… 2 / Read more »

So she’s the most powerful literary agent in the history of mankind. So she’s legendary, feared, reviled, loved — even more than the jackal, Andrew Wylie. So she “made” Raymond… Read more »

So she’s the most powerful literary agent in the history of mankind. So she’s legendary, feared, reviled, loved — even more than the jackal, Andrew Wylie. So she “made” Raymond… Read more »