Melville House Books

Imagine being a PhD student at Napier University in Scotland, casually frequenting your campus library to borrow a textbook for your studies. But the shelf is empty—not one of the… Read more »

Ain’t no way Mike Lindgren is not going to kick off his first-ever Moby with a Spinal Tap reference … especially when some UK protestors have noticed that the august… Read more »

A fact of life in publishing is that big publishers will acquire small publishers and keep them open as an imprint, which builds a complex web of companies that exist… Read more »

A picture book about a young boy dressing up as a mermaid has won The Klaus Flugge Prize. Founded to honour publisher Klaus Flugge, who set up Andersen Press in 1976 and discovered… Read more »

According to the LA Times, two venerable institutions are throwing their energies behind a search for lost Sherlock Holmes films. Christi Carras writes: The UCLA Film & Television Archive and… Read more »

James Patterson is at it again: donating his money to worthwhile literary causes.  The mega-bestselling author’s latest charitable deeds benefit those who might just need it most—teachers and students. Reported… Read more »

Chapter One: Some Bad News The postwoman Eva Kluge slowly climbs the steps of 55 Jablonski Strasse. She’s tired from her round, but she also has one of those letters… Read more »

Perhaps the only thing that we here at MobyLives have in common with Jeffrey Epstein is that the man was once a blogger like us. Over at The Chronicle of… Read more »

Don’t you just hate it when you’re innocently performing an Accio summoning spell or trying to cast a Patronus and an evil spirit turns up instead, ready to drag you… Read more »

  If it wasn’t for social media, most likely no one would have noticed. But in numerous posts on Twitter and Instagram beginning at least on Tuesday, the cat was… Read more »

Hello! We have returned from our August hiatus. Sun drunk and blissed out, we’re so relaxed that we have nothing to report about the conquering tide of Amazon washing into new… Read more »

Happy International Dog Day! Author (and social media genius) Timothy Faust posted a callout for photos of dogs with his book, Health Justice Now, and you guys did not disappoint.… Read more »

I don’t know about you, but I could do with a little light relief right now as the world turns to garbage. Boris “Piccaninny Watermelon Letterbox Cake Bumboys Vampires Haircut… Read more »

In his own era, Melville’s work received at best a mixed reception.   Said the London Athenaeum of Moby-Dick, “This is an ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter-of-fact…The style of his… Read more »

We often write about downward trends in book buying–that folks just aren’t buying enough books. But maybe they are also buying the wrong books. Today, buying the wrong books is… Read more »

Nothing like a non-Western literary festival to reinvigorate contemporary literature. As the Jakarta Post points out, authors from Asia and Africa are to take center stage at the first-ever Jakarta International… Read more »

This year’s National Book Festival, a free annual event hosted by the Library of Congress, was already set to be a hit with big names like Ruth Bader Ginsberg and… Read more »

This Monday, July 22, a huge fire ripped through East London. Declared a major police incident, it broke out in The Mall shopping centre in Walthamstow, which contains 66 shops.… Read more »

Gentlemen, start growing out your beards now for next year’s Ernest Hemingway lookalike contest, hosted annually in Key West according to WPTV. This year, over 100 Hemingway fanatics participated in the lookalike… Read more »

In the past we have written about how breathtakingly homophobic the concept of gay conversion therapy is, and how it is bad science that must be stamped out wherever it seems… Read more »

We at Melville House would like to think most of you know how many people it takes to publish a book. It doesn’t just end with the author and their… Read more »