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It seems J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series may well be the only thing keeping the publishing industry (or the film industry and theme park industry, or, you know what, just google “How… Read more »

Today in uplifting news that suggests the world may be getting better after all: the Sacramento Bee’s Diana Lambert reports that, following a heated debate, the school board at Rocklin Academy Gateway School outside Sacramento has unanymously voted to… Read more »

Today marks the second day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year festival. If you’re celebrating — go crazy! If you’re not, but want to wish your Jewish friends well (sidenote: it… Read more »

Last week, the Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland (a professional organization comparable the American Booksellers Association) held their annual conference in Birmingham. Rosamund de la Hey, owner of Scotland’s Main Street Trading… Read more »

While we were on break (true MobeHeads know it, we were off in August), publishing veteran, stalwart bookseller, and Melville House neighbor Susanne König was named the recipient of the first… Read more »

The insanely precocious Marley Dias is on a mission to “change the system we live in.” And she’s starting—where else?—with what kids her age are reading. Last year, we reported… Read more »

This Saturday in New York City, Storefront for Art and Architecture—in partnership with The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union—will be hosting the “Architecture Books / Yet to… Read more »

The folks behind the wildly popular Hot Dudes Reading Instagram (turned book) are setting out to prove they’re more than just a pretty face. In the aftermath of hurricanes Harvey and Irma—which damaged schools,… Read more »

According to a report by Jasmine Siu in yesterday’s South China Morning Post, Hong Kong-based activist Alvin Cheng Kam-mun has been convicted of theft and fined HK$3,000 (about $385 in US money). The… Read more »

Within a week after Graydon Carter announced he was leaving Vanity Fair, three other editors of major magazines have said they’ll be stepping down from their posts: Robbie Myers of… Read more »

You’ve got to love librarians — especially the ones who find creative ways to get books to underserved communities. Unfortunately, one such community in Jakarta, Indonesia may find itself without easy access to books soon, after… Read more »

This past week, all of Brooklyn’s lovely people came together once again to celebrate books—those weird little paper-and-glue objects distilled in the cask of thought and wonderment that is the… Read more »

If, like me, you were so traumatized by the episode of Little House on the Prairie where Mary went blind that you remembered it every time you got soap in your… Read more »

In the Guardian last week, Haroon Siddique had some news for Roald Dahl fans. Dahl’s widow, Liccy Dahl, had dropped some pretty big, previously unknown news a few days earlier, during… Read more »

As we approach the release of Blade Runner 2049, we see ever more evidence of sci-fi legend—and Last Interview series participant—Philip K. Dick’s unending mutability. Writer, speculator, and drug-fueled vision-quester, Dick… Read more »

While the larger literary world is (very) slowly acknowledging the inherently diverse population of its readers, those who write and promote comics and graphic novels are working tirelessly at incorporating the… Read more »

Folks, the long wait is over: tickets are on sale for the thirty-fourth annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. This year’s theme is “Basques and Buckaroos,” quite possibly… Read more »

Yesterday, former Breitbart news editor Ben Shapiro showed up to speak at the University of California, Berkeley. It was many things: a pointless provocation, a field day for newsroom thesauruses, and the inaugural installment… Read more »

Hillary Clinton’s new memoir What Happened is a book about running one of the most controversial presidential elections in history — the highs and lows, the twists and turns. You… Read more »

Hillary Clinton’s latest memoir What Happened is now on sale. Obviously, you’re going to buy it. Why wouldn’t you? You’ve been following the election from the beginning. You were a Bernie-bro-bashing badass from… Read more »

Ah, puberty: that magical time when we turn from cute little angels to hormone ridden hell-beasts. Or, as the Urban Dictionary puts it, “Gods way of testing young people between 12-18 to… Read more »

According to reports by Matt Day at the Seattle Times, and Sarah Buhr at TechCrunch, Amazon is filing five complaints with the American Arbitration Association against a number of authors,… Read more »

Our current film industry is so IP-obsessed it’s easy to assume every next major movie originates from a book or comic series, maybe even a new app… but it’s rare… Read more »

Porter Square Books—a Cambridge, Massachusetts indie bookseller and dear friend of Melville House—has a problem. It’s an ongoing problem, and one shared by many booksellers: a very specific set of books keep… Read more »

After twenty-five years at the top of the masthead, Graydon Carter has announced he will step down from his role as the editor of Vanity Fair in December. The prevailing feeling,… Read more »