Hail & Farewell, Randall Kenan
Brooklyn, September 3, 2020 — Melville House is sorry to announce the passing of our friend and author Randall Kenan, who died on August 28th at the age of 57.… Read more »
Dennis Johnson
Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House. Follow him on Twitter at @mobylives
MELVILLE HOUSE TO CRASH BOOK BY JOHN DEAN OF WATERGATE FAME ON THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING TRUMP AND HIS FOLLOWERS
Watergate legend John Dean and Brooklyn indie publisher Melville House today announce their partnership on the imminent publication of AUTHORITARIAN NIGHTMARE: TRUMP AND HIS FOLLOWERS. The book will be co-written… Read more »
Interview with the Shelf Awareness team
Melville House co-publisher Dennis Johnson interviews the braintrust behind Shelf Awareness, the beloved trade publication covering independent bookselling. Included are Jenn Risko, the co-founder and publisher; John Mutter, the co-founder… Read more »
What happens when you give a monopoly a dystopian text: They learn how to be badder
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 »
Bezos: Dick pix schtick tricks hicks & hacks
While the story hasn’t finished playing out yet, the votes are in, and according to most of my lefty media heroes the richest man in the history of — well,… Read more »
Re-reading a Hail and Farewell to James Alan McPherson
Today, on the second anniversary of James Alan McPherson’s passing, we’re revisiting this moving remembrance Melville House co-director Dennis Johnson wrote of him. It was originally published just a few days after McPherson… Read more »
Publishing During Wartime (Those who forget past blogging are doomed to repeat it)
The year is winding down, and we’re officially on hiatus. But, seeing as how internets gonna internet, we’re using this time to look back on some of our favorite posts… Read more »
Milo Yiannopoulos’s original publisher named PW’s Publisher of the Year
Bad guy vs. bad guy redux: Bad guy wins again!
As Donald Trump continues to use Twitter to give definition to the word smear, two trends of thought preoccupying the right-minded in the book industry collided the other day on… Read more »
Publishing during wartime: Chickens, roosting
Milo Yiannopoulos went down in flames yesterday — spectacularly so, in a way that will likely leave him a regular guest on the Bill Maher show but unemployed and radioactive forever… Read more »