Emma Watson paints the town read
Commuters in London were in for a surprise yesterday, when actor Emma Watson (aka Hermione Granger) (aka Belle in the upcoming “live action” Beauty and the Beast movie) planted copies… Read more »
Go bookshops, go! The first National Bookshop Day is coming to the UK…
On 8th October, The Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland is holding its first National Bookshop Day, with around 2,000 bookshops participating. What awaits book lovers on this inaugural day?… Read more »
Melville House Intern Book Club: The Geography of Madness by Frank Bures
It’s August, and you know what that means: We have officially crested the hill of summer and begun the long slide out of the heat. As the season winds down,… Read more »
The Melville House Book Group talks with Christopher Boucher, author of Golden Delicious
This past July, the Melville House Book Group met up at International Coffee HQ The Brooklyn Roasting Company in order to indulge in caffeination, conversation, and this month’s world-improving bundle of words,… Read more »
Melville House Intern Book Club: The Awakening by Kate Chopin and David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
At our last book club we made a shocking confession: we, the Melville interns, haven’t yet read every title published through Melville House. And now, more than halfway through the… Read more »
Melville House Intern Book Club: Not on Fire, But Burning by Greg Hrbek
We Melville interns know it’s already halfway through summer, and we’re finally ready to admit something: we haven’t exactly read every title on the Melville back list. But the good… Read more »
Synergy in action: Rory Gilmore brings books to the White House
Only six months to go before Netflix releases its four-part Gilmore Girls revival series, which means it’s time to get marketing. In a canny cross-promotional effort, the show’s twitter account… Read more »
A storm in a teacup over at the Brontë Society?
Oh, dear. It appears conflict has been brewing at The Brontë Society of late . As Elisabeth Perlman has reported in Newsweek, one society member compared the organization to the East German secret police during… Read more »
NFL draft pick joined a local book club, delighted everyone
Malcolm Mitchell may be headed to the NFL, but before he was the Patriots’ fourth-round draft pick, he was a well-known wide receiver at the University of Georgia, and the… Read more »
Manly book clubs are manly, prefer Henry Miller to Jane Austen and Rocky Mountain Oysters to wine
The Man Book Club of Marin County bills itself as a book group for men who want “to discuss books that challenge us…to find meaning and enjoyment in literature.” So,… Read more »