Melville House Books

This week, Leave.eu co-founder and UKIP donor Arron Banks accused Harry Potter author J.K Rowling of being ‘pretentious’ after she made reference to her writing room on Twitter. Yes, really. In a tweet from November 28th Rowling stated, in reference to Brexit, that ‘every time I come out… Read more »

Announced earlier in November, BuzzFeed News is offering its readers exclusive access through a new subscription service, writes Anthony Ha at Techcrunch. According to Ha, readers of one of the newest sections of… Read more »

Hot on the heels of our report about a batch of Super Mario-inspired poems printed with, ahem, extremely unexpected contents, it’s been another classic week for regrettable production errors. Falling unfortunately foul of the editorial… Read more »

Something is rotten in the state of Iowa.  As we reported back in February of this year, homophobes petitioned to have books with LGBTQ themes removed from general circulation at… Read more »

This year’s Man Booker Prize has been one of frequent surprises.… Read more »

If you’re a poet and looking for some new spaces to share your work, maybe it’s time to give Instagram a try. So suggests award-winning American poet Eileen Myles, in an… Read more »

There are some folks who complain about kids these days reading their social media timelines instead of reading a good book. Now those whippersnappers can have their cake and eat it,… Read more »

It seems the saga of Gawker as we know it is finally coming to a close: CNN’s Tom Kludt and Oliver Darcy reported Thursday afternoon that Bleacher Report co-founder Bryan Goldberg has purchased the… Read more »

As you’ve probably heard, Chief Bootlicker, noted dipshit, fun-loving Holocust denier, and former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is now an author. He wrote a book called The Briefing: Politics,… Read more »

Giving up. It’s a concept that, in these days of workplaces that joyfully claim to be “always at 150%!!!”, self-actualising business bores, multiple Iron Man marathon runners, and streaming services… Read more »