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Simon & Schuster is making headlines again, although this time not about the impending Penguin Random House Simon & Schuster mega-merger-to-dwarf-all-other-mergers. As well as publishing their own titles, S&S distribute books for… Read more »

(Brooklyn, NY) Melville House Publishing is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of THE STORM IS UPON US: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything by… Read more »

Last week we had the privilege of participating in the Penguin Random House Spring Festival for librarians (thanks to everyone who stopped by!). Three of our authors joined us in… Read more »

It has been a long, cold, hard winter with much of the high street closed in England, but finally, this week, non-essential shops reopened for the first time since the… Read more »

For those lucky enough to have access to a garden or outdoor space during the pandemic, they have provided more than just an escape from the no-so-great indoors. And with… Read more »

If there is one thing we have learned over the years, it is that librarians are fierce! So it came as no surprise when the American Library Association (ALA) sent… Read more »

A new memoir from government insider Sir Alan Duncan is causing waves in the UK, attacking prominent Conservative politicians, including current Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Sir Alan Duncan served as… Read more »

Last week it was confirmed, in the latest instance of “Marcus Rashford being an excellent human,” that the Manchester United striker—who is just 23!—is putting his name to a new… Read more »

Where will it all end? The incessant roundelay of mergers and acquisitions (“M&A,” in the parlance of our finance-bro pals—but, we digress) continues apace. According to Monday’s Wall Street Journal,… Read more »

Selling over 80 million copies worldwide and with a DreamWorks film to its name, the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey is a much loved and lauded series of children’s… Read more »

  Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world’s largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also… Read more »

Climate change is real and the stakes are pretty dire. While some of the modern proposed solutions to climate change have started to creep towards something out of science fiction,… Read more »

A recent New York Times piece opens with author E. Lockhart seeing her 2014 book We Were Liars hitting the best-seller list over the summer of 2020. Baffled but pleased,… Read more »

  Daniel Combs spent the past six years studying Myanmar’s ethnic conflicts. The result: Until the World Shatters, the first in depth reporting on Myanmar’s jade war and the largest… Read more »

Celebrate Women’s History Month with some of our favorite titles about women, by women.   A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star… Read more »

Poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti died on Monday, at 101 years of age the last surviving member of the fabled “Beat Generation” who re-shaped American culture so flamboyantly beginning in… Read more »

Founded a year and a half ago, Dulkal Libraries has been organizing mobile and street libraries to help get books to children in government schools and rural communities across Tamil… Read more »

Your special correspondent for the inability to read, write, or otherwise function during the pandemic is back. This time, it’s the writers of novels who are citing all sorts of… Read more »

Words are our business over here on (digital) John Street! and that means, by extension, typography is also our business! As scholars of the intersection of the digital and the… Read more »

When it comes to pioneers in Black history, who do you think of? February is Black History Month and this year, on the docket for essential reading, we’ve got some classics… Read more »

In the wake of the Capitol riots on January 6, Simon & Schuster cancelled Junior Senator Josh Hawley’s forthcoming book on January 7. Almost as quickly, and after many conservative… Read more »

Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing just celebrated its paperback release. And believe us when we say, this book is *blowing up* on social feeds. If you’ve ever found yourself… Read more »

Protestors have gathered at famous indie bookstore Powell’s, in Portland, Oregon, to express their opposition to the store’s selling of Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, by right-wing… Read more »

There’s a long fight ahead this next week and beyond. Educate yourself on everything from the impeachment process to how we stop climate change.   A Citizen’s Guide to Impeachment… Read more »

Before we log off for the holidays, we had to do one more round of staff picks. After asking the scrappy Melville House team what books they’d recommend to readers that we… Read more »

It’s time for the annual ritual where we begin reflecting on the year as it comes to an end. Except 2020 is arguably different than the previous years. People can’t… Read more »

While books have depicted themes of isolation, pandemics, and loneliness for centuries, I think we can all agree that this is the first time we 21st century folk can relate… Read more »

It’s hard to believe 2020 is almost at an end. As we head into 2021, we offer some recommendations to get everyone off on the right foot: some to inspire,… Read more »

“Get out, we do not want your kind here.” Sandra Dear, owner of The Little Boho Bookshop, read the anonymous note left in her mailbox just hours before the grand… Read more »

[Note from the marketing director] After last week’s fiasco the managing editor has been restored to factory settings, but is currently on probation. We will be watching him closely. AS… Read more »

A couple of weeks ago Bertelsmann announced that it was buying Simon & Schuster, combining the largest and third largest publishers in the United States. The news was not well… Read more »