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Sanders, Warren, Steinem, and Other Leading Progressives Respond to Trump in New Melville House Book Pubbing for Inauguration Day

Melville House has announced it will publish a collection of passionate manifestos by leading progressives—including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Gloria Steinem, Paul Krugman, Robert B. Reich, and others—and that it… Read more »

Here’s what’s going on

Ahoy-hoy! Another week down; another bunch of insane Trump appointees, another bouquet of oh-c’mon-now tweets, another round of casualties to 2016 (goodbye to language poet Ray DiPalma, legendary New York bookseller Robert A. Wilson,… Read more »

Watch Owen Jones drop a steak of delightful intelligence into the shark-infested waters of the media

“So, basically, I’m like this meat in the ocean, and you’re the sharks.” So saith columnist, Melville House author, and all-around great sport Owen Jones, in a recent video in which… Read more »

“This must be the greatest quantity of squeezable mustard ever present at a literary lunch.”

There are probably a lot of people in the world named David Mitchell. There is, of course, the guy who, for book lovers, probably counts as the main David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas David Mitchell. There’s… Read more »

The news really has been pretty bad; here are a few reasons to smile

Listen, the world has been very garbagey lately. While there are glimmers of hope on the horizon, they tend toward the sort of long-term. Many of us could use a… Read more »

Amazon employee attempts suicide at the company’s headquarters

A worker at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington, has attempted to kill himself by leaping four stories from one of the complex’s buildings, Spencer Soper has reported for Bloomberg. He has reportedly… Read more »

Last week was hard. This whole month’s been hard. Here’s four minutes of Andy Rooney talking about how much he hated Hemingway. You’re welcome.

Whether you actually survived exposure to family members last week, or are simply one more human being holding it down in the ambient huh? that is survival in 2016, it is… Read more »

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