Weekend Bites: Penguin Ripping off Melville House (?), Novels About Cults, Overrated Books, and More

Yeah yeah, it’s Jack Kerouac’s birthday, but it’s also Darryl Strawberry’s.

  • Is Penguin ripping off Melville House’s cover design ideas?
  • What do Ulysses, Gravity’s Rainbow, and Moby-Dick have in common?  Apparently they’re all overrated according to this list.