February 22, 2017

When the Co-op City Barnes and Noble first announced that it was going to shut its doors and leave the Bronx without a general interest bookstore, we did what we… Read more »

Booksellers & bookselling

Bye-Bye BEA: Big Book Bonanza Bails, No Replacement Seen — Mike Lindgren
"BoxedOut" campaign to warn customers of costs of shopping on Amazon this season — Ryan Harrington
One partnership sending books to prisons — Alyea Canada
Indie bookstores are nervous about the holiday season — Alyea Canada

Utah Republican leader resigns over controversial views on equal pay

Kait Howard

Last week, while Melville House author Jessa Crispin trenchantly questioned whether women’s increasing representation in the corporate world has done much to advance broader economic equality, Republicans in Wascatch County, Utah, were debating a… Read more »

A recently discovered anonymous novel is attributed to Walt Whitman

Ryan Harrington

We know the great Walt Whitman as a poet, diarist, Brooklyn-liver and amateur bare-knuckle boxer. But we don’t always think of him as having been a novelist. Indeed, he didn’t… Read more »

A brief history of mall writing

Ian Dreiblatt

Tolstoy once wrote, “Standalone retail outlets are all alike; every mall is a mall in its own way.” Countless scholars have debated the subtle shadings of this sentence, how it flashes with scenes… Read more »

Melville House Books

Noëlle Santos is bringing a goddamn bookstore to the Bronx

Simon Reichley