June 14, 2018

Melville House author, political science savant, and world’s most delightful rabble-rouser David Faris is a little busy this week, so today we thought we’d post a “hear me out” on… Read more »

Melville House Books

Sir David Attenborough turns 93; launches remix competition — Tom Clayton
Actually, we do publish manuscripts sent to the slush pile — Michael Barron
Creepy Men: An unpublished chapter from Juliet the Maniac — Melville House
"Equal parts David Lynch and James Ivory": help support the I Await the Devil's Coming short film — Ryan Harrington

Dear Republicans, Don’t forget to proofread your shitty tax law unless you want to be, amazingly, even worse

Susan Rella

The unequivocally great thing about 2017’s horrible Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is how it makes billionaires really fucking rich and the rest of us actually literally dead. But good news!… Read more »

Another One Bites the Dust: Florida State University backs away from “Big Deal” subscription packages

Florida State University’s libraries are in negotiations with Elsevier about an impending pricing issue, according to Diana Kwon writing in the Scientist this week. Back in April, the libraries announced that, due to the “high… Read more »

I, for one, welcome our New Apple Book overlords

Michael Barron

iBooks: great for pounding down digital manuscript submissions, binge-sampling published books, and helping to obliterate the printed word. iBooks might lack for personality and features, but hey, it’s still better than reading… Read more »

Melville House Books

We could split California into three states
. . . or we could split it into seven

Taylor Sperry

Dear Republicans, Don’t forget to proofread your shitty tax law unless you want to be, amazingly, even worse

Susan Rella

Another One Bites the Dust: Florida State University backs away from “Big Deal” subscription packages

Michael Seidlinger

I, for one, welcome our New Apple Book overlords

Michael Barron