Melville House Books

Paul Oliver

Paul Oliver is the marketing manager of Melville House. Previously he was co-owner of Wolfgang Books in Philadelphia.

• As Kindle Fire sales slump, analysts wonder what’s next?

  The Kindle Fire released late last fall to robust sales despite lackluster reviews. The sales were strong enough to land Amazon the spot as the second bestselling tablet behind the… Read more »

• Christies in Paris is auctioning off a large collection of porn — er, curiosa

  Christie’s, the celebrated auction house in Paris, has scheduled for May 11th a substantial collection of curiosa. The noteworthy collection includes the pornographic illustrations from both low and high brow… Read more »

• Orhan Pamuk creates a museum to honor one of his novels

  There is a hotel in Spain that is designed around Italo Calvino’s celebrated Invisible Cities, which sounds remarkably appealing so long as one of the themed rooms is not in… Read more »

• Queensland Museum discovers 3,000 year old fragments from Egyptian Book of the Dead

  In an unlikely — and slightly disconcerting — story, the Queensland Museum located in Brisbane, Australia, has discovered that its collection houses a fragment from a 3,000-year-old Egyptian manuscript that… Read more »

• I Am the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, or, Amazon is a knockoff factory

  We’ve discussed the plagiarism issues Amazon allows to run rampant, but what about that other time-honored tradition of retail charlatanry: Designer knockoffs. It seems that there isn’t a single aspect… 11 / Read more »

• VIDEO: Melville House author Mukoma Wa Ngugi talks about writing, life and Nairobi Heat the movie

  Melville International Crime author Mukoma Wa Ngugi was recently interviewed by Kali TV, an independent news program that focuses on the stories of Africans living in the diaspora. Wa Ngugi’s… Read more »

• House nominates resolution honoring Ameen Rihani and The Book of Khalid

  The Book of Khalid has a fascinating and important history starting with its place as the first Arab-American novel. Ameen Rihani’s sojourning tale of turn-of-the-century life in New York captures… Read more »

• Mrs. Vickers and the case of the vanishing manuscript

  When diabetes took her vision away, Dorset native Trish Vickers took to poetry to bring order to her suddenly chaotic life. In time, Mrs. Vickers found that the pen suited… Read more »

• DOJ still missing mark, but manages to hit B&N hard

  The aftermath of last week’s capitulation by three of the five major publishers has had at least one solid effect: Barnes & Noble took a 17% hit on its stock.… Read more »

• Valtat’s Steampunk Emporium, or the return of Aurorarama

  We’re less than a month away from the paperback release of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s cult hit, the steampunk epic Aurorarama. Published in hardcover in the fall of 2010, Aurorarama is the… Read more »