Melville House Books

Advice

• Lessons from a noir convention

  Like the very best genre conventions it is characterized in every aspect by incredible enthusiasm… Read more »

• Brooklyn Book Festival by the numbers

  Melville House has been in attendance at the Brooklyn Book Festival every year of the festival’s existence, and while we wouldn’t call ourselves experts, we do think we might be… Read more »

• Literary epiphanies while running

  After our first long training run this weekend in preparation for the New York City Marathon, the leader of my running group called everyone together to make a few announcements.… 2 / Read more »

• ADVICE: “Are text messages fair game for poetry?”

  “The Fallback Plan” is a weekly column at The Faster Times written by Leigh Stein (author of the novel The Fallback Plan), that offers advice to those undergoing a second adolescence.… 1 / Read more »

• Total panda-monium: Leigh Stein’s THE FALLBACK PLAN goes on tour

  Last Thursday saw the launch of Melville House’s 200th title, The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein, a hilarious debut novel that captures the youth zeitgeist and has been wowing the critics. The… 3 / Read more »

• ADVICE: “I was born to be an Edwardian gentleman of leisure [but] have no money. What can be done about this?”

  The Fallback Plan is a weekly column written by Leigh Stein (author of the novel The Fallback Plan), that offers advice to those undergoing a second adolescence. For an illustrated… Read more »

• Get good advice and WIN signed copies of The Fallback Plan

  Times are tough. The economy sucks. 85 percent of college graduates are moving back in with their parents. If you’re like millions of America, your A-plan (Get an education! Find… Read more »

• ADVICE: How do I get my keys back from my ex-boyfriend?

  The Fallback Plan is a weekly column, offering advice to those undergoing a second adolescence. It is written by Leigh Stein, author of the January novel, also titled The Fallback… Read more »

• ADVICE: “You smell like roses from here.”

    Leigh Stein, author of the forthcoming The Fallback Plan, has begun writing a weekly advice column at The Faster Times. We’ll be syndicating the column here at MobyLives. Dear… Read more »

• Anatomy of marketing campaign, #10: Meta-marketing & luck

  How do you market a book written in a foreign language by an author who’s now dead, that was originally published 60 years ago, and has been overlooked by mainstream… 2 / Read more »