Melville House Books

Independent bookshops, unite! The Booksellers Association (BA), a membership organisation for all booksellers in the UK & Ireland, representing over 95% of bookshops, is launching a scheme to promote one… Read more »

It was 2018 when public defender and essayist Amalia Beckner first entered Harris County Jail in Houston. Beckner writes for the Houston Chronicle that despite jitters upon seeing high security measures… Read more »

A study conducted by The National Literacy Trust displays the disparities of children who own books and those who do not, to some unsurprising and surprising finds. The findings are… Read more »

Two people have resigned from a committee that was established to oversee reforms to the Swedish Academy’s Nobel prize for literature. This puts the net resignation count for any committees… Read more »

In response to worsening conditions for Amazon employees as demand for speedier delivery increases, protests are being organized for Cyber Monday. The newly formed Athena Coalition has joined over 40… Read more »

When the average American thinks of Florida, they imagine alligators, Disney, sunshine, voting recounts, and Florida Man. But when Amazon thinks of Florida, they envision a state of unlimited space… Read more »

My debut novel, The Revisionaries, will be released on December 3. A little secret, now: It wasn’t supposed to get published—according to me. Before I started, I told myself that… Read more »

We are living in something of a golden age of fraud. It seems in the past four years, we’ve become acquainted with every permutation of misdeed involving a country in… Read more »

West Virginia’s Upshur County public library has pulled a book from its shelves this week, after a local church minister publicly raised concerns over its content. Prince & Knight written… Read more »

Coming Winter 2021, young readers can expect a new line of books by Native authors and illustrators that introduce the world to oft-overlooked Native protagonists. This is all thanks to… Read more »

It’s easy, from the cheap seats, to complain about the ways billionaires spend their money. But who can really say what they’d do, if they had more money than they knew… Read more »

As we’ve previously discussed, a small piece of juvenalia by a 14-year-old Charlotte Brontë recently came back on the market, and the Brontë Society, who support and operate the Brontë… Read more »

Ahhh, the smell of old books. Something people love to brag about loving. (Why yes, we’ve gotten product recommendations for old-book-scented soy candles on a certain Internet megastore that shall… Read more »

Last week’s flooding in Venice caused dramatic damages throughout the city. Currently in a state of emergency, the highwater mark reached 6 feet, 2 inches, the worst the city has… Read more »

Last month, Ruby Tuesday Books published two illustrated children’s volumes in a new series called Fred and Woody’s Fantastic World. The series aims to initiate honest and realistic conversations about… Read more »

Key West has long been a haven for America’s favorite writers. Tennessee Williams, Anne Beattie, Joy Williams, and Judy Blume have all spent time there. Hemingway, of course, got the… Read more »

Publishers Weekly reports that Amazon has been cutting book orders to book publishers over the last several weeks. Jim Milliot reports: It isn’t clear how widespread the reduction in orders… Read more »

“Cancel culture,” a neologism that has been gaining ever accelerating traction in the last two or three years, has been cited once again in completely nonsensical manner. The term, which… Read more »

Last year we wrote about the annual tradition that is Collins English Dictionary word of the year, as chosen by lexicographers since 2013. Following on from last year’s winner “single-use,”… Read more »