Melville House Books

Founded a year and a half ago, Dulkal Libraries has been organizing mobile and street libraries to help get books to children in government schools and rural communities across Tamil… Read more »

Your special correspondent for the inability to read, write, or otherwise function during the pandemic is back. This time, it’s the writers of novels who are citing all sorts of… Read more »

Words are our business over here on (digital) John Street! and that means, by extension, typography is also our business! As scholars of the intersection of the digital and the… Read more »

When it comes to pioneers in Black history, who do you think of? February is Black History Month and this year, on the docket for essential reading, we’ve got some classics… Read more »

In the wake of the Capitol riots on January 6, Simon & Schuster cancelled Junior Senator Josh Hawley’s forthcoming book on January 7. Almost as quickly, and after many conservative… Read more »

Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing just celebrated its paperback release. And believe us when we say, this book is *blowing up* on social feeds. If you’ve ever found yourself… Read more »

Protestors have gathered at famous indie bookstore Powell’s, in Portland, Oregon, to express their opposition to the store’s selling of Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, by right-wing… Read more »

There’s a long fight ahead this next week and beyond. Educate yourself on everything from the impeachment process to how we stop climate change.   A Citizen’s Guide to Impeachment… Read more »

Before we log off for the holidays, we had to do one more round of staff picks. After asking the scrappy Melville House team what books they’d recommend to readers that we… Read more »

It’s time for the annual ritual where we begin reflecting on the year as it comes to an end. Except 2020 is arguably different than the previous years. People can’t… Read more »

While books have depicted themes of isolation, pandemics, and loneliness for centuries, I think we can all agree that this is the first time we 21st century folk can relate… Read more »

It’s hard to believe 2020 is almost at an end. As we head into 2021, we offer some recommendations to get everyone off on the right foot: some to inspire,… Read more »

“Get out, we do not want your kind here.” Sandra Dear, owner of The Little Boho Bookshop, read the anonymous note left in her mailbox just hours before the grand… Read more »

[Note from the marketing director] After last week’s fiasco the managing editor has been restored to factory settings, but is currently on probation. We will be watching him closely. AS… Read more »

A couple of weeks ago Bertelsmann announced that it was buying Simon & Schuster, combining the largest and third largest publishers in the United States. The news was not well… Read more »

In a move that surprised exactly no one, trade-show behemoth ReedPop announced that BookExpo, formerly the annual conference of the American Booksellers Association, would cease to exist, ending a tradition… Read more »

As we gear up to celebrate the end of this most… trying* year, one thing is for certain: 2020 has forced individuals and companies worldwide to think out of the… Read more »

In more “seriously it’s 2020 how is this just now happening” diversity news, the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) in the UK has announced that the late Andrea Levy will… Read more »

Artists in merry old England want more access to their countryside. And to do so, they used the tried-and-true, never-fails method of penning an open letter to the prime minister.… Read more »

Banned Books Week, an awareness campaign hosted by the American Library Association, ended last month. During this week, as we’ve written about, people celebrate literature that has previously been banned… Read more »

It’s November! The last month of the best season (fall)! I’m sure we all have complicated feelings about November this year and many of us are still at home with… Read more »

“The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me was the same day the milkman died.” Well, then. If… Read more »

Casting a wide net, our omnivorous marketing director came across an interesting essay written by a high-school student named Daniel Ma and published in something called the Post Bulletin. Young… Read more »

Last week we wrote about the American Bookseller Association’s #BoxedOut campaign in which select indie storefronts were covered in the familiar drab of Amazon boxes carrying slogans like “Anyone else feel weird… Read more »

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear Instagram… although we may not be celebrating many parties in-person this year because of our lovely virus friend, we… Read more »

For the last couple of days, Americans stopped squabbling, put aside their differences, and gathered ’round the table as family for the harvest of Amazon Prime. Prime Day–as the annual event… Read more »

One thing many people have learned during the various stages of coronavirus lockdown is that books make for excellent escapes. For incarcerated people this has long been a truth, but… Read more »

Famed postmodernist artist Jenny Holzer is releasing a mobile app on Monday that will allow quotes from selected Great Books to be projected, Holzer-style, onto nearby surfaces. The project—or whatever… Read more »

Riley Gale, the singer of Dallas, TX, thrash heroes Power Trip, died unexpectedly this August at the simply tragic age of 34. He was one of the best frontmen in the… Read more »