Melville House Books

The digital age has brought with it a bunch of new ways to read a book, but ambient literature might be the first step toward an entirely new way to… Read more »

So, is it worth shelling out the big bucks for a glorified typewriter?… Read more »

There are so many paths a book can take to publication. Often, writers brave the slush piles of editors and literary agents, or even posting ceaselessly on social media in the hopes… 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 »

We have, over the years, had ample cause to ridicule a good number of faddish “book technologies,” each of which was certain to “change the nature of reading, at scale” or “revolutionize the… Read more »

Have you heard of Nintendo’s latest bold interactive experiment, Labo? Like most Nintendo innovations, it breaks down into amazingly simple ingredients that, when combined, become something else entirely. In Labo’s… Read more »

That’s a headline I never expected to write with any sincerity — but according to Alison Flood and Sian Cain at the Guardian, the popular video game Minecraft has become a sort of… Read more »

So, Elon Musk is getting dragged on the internet right now, and it is relatively glorious. Musk has done many things to earn the contempt of the screengazing masses, from falsely smearing… Read more »

iBooks: great for pounding down digital manuscript submissions, binge-sampling published books, and helping to obliterate the printed word. iBooks might lack for personality and features, but hey, it’s still better than reading… Read more »

Who’s to say what the best way of consuming information or entertainment may be in the twenty-first century? Print, e-books, audiobooks, or podcasts. Increasingly, it’s seeming like podcasts are the medium… Read more »