A look back at this year’s AWP Conference
This year’s AWP Bookfair & Conference was held in sunny Los Angeles, which was a blessed relief during a weekend when the Northeast was being hit with hail, chills, and all those… Read more »
Scenes from Winter Institute 2016 with author Martin Seay
Greetings from Denver and the American Bookseller Association’s annual Winter Institute, where Melville House has been representing great books and celebrating author Martin Seay (The Mirror Thief, out in May 2016)! It’s… Read more »
The Guardian recommends Desperate Literature, a new English bookstore in Madrid
A year after opening in Madrid, English-language bookstore Desperate Literature has garnered top reviews on Trip Advisor and a glowing recommendation this month from James Blick in The Guardian. With… Read more »
Forty years later: the book jacket for “Jaws”
“First novels generally sink, and this was a first novel about a fish,” author Peter Benchley said of his novel Jaws, in a 1991 interview with the Palm Beach Post.… Read more »
NYPL releases the weirdest reference questions from the 1940s-1980s
Librarians’ patience has been tested at least as long as there have been libraries. Oh, and as long as there have been people. People to bother them. People who need… Read more »
The world’s foremost pizza expert offers a tour of New York City’s best pizzerias
Scott Wiener is a pizza lover, pizza expert, and pizza tour leader. He also happens to be the author of a book about pizza box art, which was published by… Read more »
Hopscotching throughout Paris: one photographer’s celebration of Cortázar
The latest ode to the hopscotch as inspired by Julio Cortázar’s dizzyingly structure-less novel of the same name is the photography project by Hugo Passarello, now on display at the Lycée Français in an exhibit titled… Read more »
Behind the scenes with Erato, the hardest-working dog in publishing
Book publishing is a famously mysterious industry, and the publication process itself is full of steps and layers that often remain unknown to the general public. But at a meeting… Read more »
Patriotic books to wrap up the July 4 weekend
The July 4 weekend has come to a close, but if the fireworks and ubiquitous red, white, and blue paraphernalia have left you in a particularly patriotic mood, we have your… Read more »
Seven Melville House books made obsolete by rising sea levels
When the globe is hit with a ten foot rise in sea level, which of our books will suddenly become fantastic? We’ve known the general figures for some time now,… Read more »