Melville House Books

Let’s start with a book plug. In May 2019, Melville House will publish Ernesto, a period biography of Ernest Hemingway’s years as a celebrated resident of Cuba, and a book you… Read more »

Listen, it’s been a weird week for many of us. You may have found yourself eating horseradish-and-apple-mush sandwiches on oversized-cracker fragments. Maybe you were painting the eggs of a bird… Read more »

It’s the 235th birthday of Washington Irving, and so perhaps the ideal time to sit back, pour yourself a Heineken, and groove out to Faerie Tale Theatre’s highly excellent adaptation of Irving’s immensely… Read more »