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• Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award gets more Amazon-y

  In a further move towards gobbling up every aspect of the publishing business they can get their hands on, yesterday Amazon announced changes to their Breakthrough Novel Award. In past… Read more »

• Introducing the “There is No Explanation” tote bag contest (UPDATED)

  There can never be too many totes in the world, which is why we’re excited to announce Melville House’s “There is No Explanation” bag — a new version of our… Read more »

• French Olympic team discovered to have unfair advantage: Baudelaire

  It has recently come to our attention that French Olympic swimmer Yannick Agnel stands accused of using literature as part of his pre-match routines, namely the potent work of Charles Baudelaire.… 1 / Read more »

• Celebrating Herman Melville’s birthday

  Today marks a special occasion here at Melville House as we celebrate the birthday of our namesake. Author of many famous poems, short stories, and novels, Herman Melville was born… 17 / Read more »

• FRIDAY CHALLENGE: Oulipo-inspired interactive fiction

  big oak You are in a dense forest. To the East you can see a clearing. To the West, North, and South the forest continues, however the forest is to… 1 / Read more »

• Don’t go to the Ozarks for romance …

  “The Fallback Plan” is a weekly column at TheFasterTimes.com written by Leigh Stein, author of the forthcoming novel The Fallback Plan. It offers illustrated advice on any number of life’s questions. For an… Read more »

• ART OF THE NOVELLA Reading Challenge

  Inspired by Frances Evangelista, of the Nonsuch Book blog, and her quest to read all of our 42 novellas in one month we’re dedicating August to the Art of the Novella Reading Challenge.… Read more »

• Raffle Contest with Melville House at ALA

  Attention Librarians: We’re going to ALA this year! And to celebrate our inaugural visit we’re giving out some swag. And not just a piece of swag here and there, but… Read more »

• You’ve Got Thirty Pages

  In the introduction to Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985), Postman relates our society to that of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World,… Read more »

• Moby Award Finalists + A Party!

  The finalists for the 2011 are live! —Check them out HERE— We’d love to hear your comments on the nominees and if you have a few trailers you think deserve… Read more »