Essential Reads for 2021

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 »

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Inspiring Reads for the New Year

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 »

Dictionary.com revises 15,000+ definitions in “largest ever update”

Last week Dictionary.com released its “largest ever update,” with alterations to more than 15,000 entries, according to Allison Flood at The Guardian. Jennifer Steeves-Kiss, chief executive of Dictionary.com, explains: “2020 has been a… Read more »

A Message from John Dean

How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, and counter to our democratic principles? Why do his followers stick with him, even when he… Read more »

Week 19: $1.99 Ebook Sale

The Ghost Network Catie Disabato One minute insanely famous pop singer Molly Metropolis is on her way to a major performance in Chicago, and the next, she’s gone, her cell… Read more »

Week 18: $1.99 Ebook Sale

How to Sharpen Pencils David Rees Deep in New York’s Hudson River Valley, craftsman David Rees—the world’s number one #2 pencil sharpener—still practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening.… Read more »

Week 12: Ebook Sale

Another week, another ebook sale! We have a fantastic selection of novellas for $1.99 this week—as well as a special sale on Malcolm Harris’s Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit. Smart,… Read more »

Interview with Rick Simonson and Michael Reynolds

Melville House co-publisher Dennis Johnson interviews Rick Simonson, head buyer at Elliott Bay Book Company, and Michael Reynolds, editor-in-chief of Europa Editions. This is the fourth in a series of… Read more »

Week 8: Ebook Sale

This week we have a selection of ebooks from our beloved Last Interview series on sale for $1.99. Each volume contains the subject’s last interview, as well as some of… Read more »