Melville House Books

It is monsoon season in the Valley of the Sun, Phoenix, Arizona. That’s right, buckaroo, the 120-plus-degree summer afternoon hellscapes that bring life here to a standstill are punctuated by evenings… Read more »

(NB The following contains minor spoilers for Games of Thrones season 7, episode 1.) Last week, we were graced with the long-awaited return of everyone’s favorite politically-charged, blood-and-violence-infused fantasy series: Game of… Read more »

We’ve got kind of a thing for Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener. We scriven publish it in our Art of the Novella series. We offer totes and tees scrivened emblazoned… Read more »

Ehsan Abdollahi, illustrator of When I Coloured In the World by Ahmadreza Ahmadi and A Bottle of Happiness by Pippa Goodhart (both published in the UK by Tiny Owl) and citizen of Iran, has been denied… Read more »

New York City’s attempts at reader engagement have led to several impressive initiatives throughout the five boroughs, like the recent library train cars sponsored by the NYPL (among others), Penguin Random House’s… Read more »

Keanu Reeves is many things: an actor, a philanthropist, a meme (twice). Now, he’s adding book publisher to his list of titles. The Matrix star and Excellent Adventure-er, in collaboration with… Read more »

Not-exactly-prolific (but very successful and cool!) author Junot Díaz (The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Drown) has written a picture book, reports Alexander Alter in the New York… Read more »

Steve Bloom is (or was) the owner of second-hand bookshop Bloomindales in Hawes, in northern England’s Yorkshire Dales. Such a puntastic shop should surely have been a success. But unfortunately Bloom… Read more »

Good news for folks who love both money and wittily perceptive fiction: soon, you’ll be able to travel to the UK and buy whatever you need—pants to wear under your favourite… Read more »

It’s a well-known fact that only three percent of books written outside of the English language end up translated and on US bookshelves. Of that three percent, just a small margin… Read more »

Imagine you’re in a wormhole, rocketing across spacetime at the speed of light, plummeting through the multiverse like a lead weight sinking to the bottom of a cool, clear lake. Now… Read more »

Nothing makes for better internet comedy than some good old-fashioned corruption. Last week, everybody’s second-least favorite Donald Trump made the inexplicable decision to publish his email conversations about a then-upcoming… Read more »

Today, we’re celebrating the release of Dirty Wars and Polished Silver, Lynda Schuster’s heart-racing memoir of her life as a foreign war correspondent, with astounding scenes in the nations of Latin… Read more »

Now that he has some spare time on his hands, former FBI director James Comey—who was suddenly, unceremoniously dismissed from his post in May—is apparently shopping a book proposal around… Read more »

“I don’t believe in the afterlife as a reality, but I believe in the afterlife as metaphor, and my mother, from the afterlife, is metaphorically kicking my ass.” That’s Sherman… Read more »

Yes, everyone with a brain loves coffee. Artistic writerly types have relied on the delicious drug for centuries, and bibliophiles are renowned for savoring a cuppa while they peruse all… Read more »

For anyone wondering if they lack empathy—anyone who fears they’ve missed out on the milk of humanity for so long that the only internal prodding they’ve experienced has been courtesy of a… Read more »

Check out this song, it’s weird and excellent: So, yeah. That was Potrzebie (That’s What I Want) by Mike “Sport” Murphy. Each author’s name—including, forgive me for observing, more than… Read more »

According to reports by Kaja Whitehouse and Natalie O’Neill of the New York Post and Kaileen Gaul of the Daily Mail, a man from Albany, NY is suing former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and her publisher, Penguin… Read more »

Recently, we wrote about Australia’s Avid Reader bookshop, whose Facebook user ratings had been targeted by a horde of Men’s Rights Activists following their decision to boost a signal from feminist author Clementine Ford. Happily,… Read more »

Language is a notoriously slippery beast. As people continue to insist on using words, they also continue to insist on using them, and spelling them, in their own, sometimes weird,… Read more »

Fifty years ago this week, one of the biggest, wildest urban convulsions in American history took hold of Newark, New Jersey. As usual, there were mounting tensions, and then there was… Read more »

Following the election of The Boss Baby, Locofo Chaps, an imprint of the Indiana-based poetry press Moria Books, made the decision to get Donald Trump’s first hundred days down in writing… Read more »

Are you eagerly awaiting Philip Pullman’s first Book of Dust volume, La Belle Sauvage? Perhaps you’re thinking about pre-ordering it. And perhaps you will shop around to find it at the best… Read more »