Could you spot a Nobel prize winner? Nineteen publishers couldn’t…
Are we living in an era of throwaway literature? Seventy-year-old French writer Serge Volle thought so, and went about proving it. He sent chapters of one of his favourite classics to… Read more »
On sale now! Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Next week will mark six years since the death of the astounding and unique intellectual pyrotechnician Christopher Hitchens. Today, we’re remembering him in all his cantankerous luminousness as we celebrate the publication… Read more »
Christopher Hitchens vs. Jon Stewart: “You go to war with the president you have”
Because today marks the release of Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, and because it’s entirely worth watching, here is Christopher Hitchens now-legendary 2005 Iraq War debate, which found Hitch arguing… Read more »
Winter book preview — Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Next month will mark six years since the death of the legendary writer, thinker, intellectual pugilist, and paragon of erudite argumentation Christopher Hitchens. A week from today, he’ll be joining some of… Read more »
“It’s probably the stupidest thing the human race does, to look for patterns in this way”: Christopher Hitchens has some opinions
“Several leaders of the Christian church, as you know, said about the last tsunami that it was a punishment. In Britain several of them said it was a punishment for homosexuality. It… Read more »
When the Librarians came to Melville House: Fall 2017 Edition
This past Friday, June 9th, we here at Melville House were lucky enough to spend the afternoon with some of the finest folks around, the Librarians, on the occasion of… Read more »
Literature of the “departure lounge”
Clive James knows he doesn’t have much time left to write. He was diagnosed with leukemia and emphysema in 2010, but he says he’s feeling pretty optimistic about it, even… Read more »
Benjamin Schwarz out at The Atlantic
In a little-reported move, Benjamin Schwarz has left The Atlantic. Since 2000, Schwarz has edited the Atlantic’s books and ideas section, which published reviews and essays by Christopher Hitchens, B.R. Myers, Caitlin Flanagan, Perry… Read more »
Boring the interns
Man, I can’t wait until I’m old like Michael Kinsley and can write pieces about “the way things were,” back when you occasionally had to stand close to a window… Read more »
Indie publisher James Atlas is indie no longer, or, Now Nancy Pearl has a friend!
Biographer and editor James Atlas, who has acquired books for HarperCollins, Penguin, and WW Norton and later published an independent list at Atlas & Co., has teamed up with Amazon… Read more »