Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Publishing
Since its inception twenty years ago this February (02/20/02 to be exact), Melville House has been called “brilliant,” “anti-establishment,” “small but innovative,” and “[an] enticing American boutique.” Twenty years later,… Read more »
A note to librarians, from author Gregory Galloway
Dear Librarians, Many of you might already know how important libraries have been in my life—I grew up in a town that didn’t have a bookstore until I was a… Read more »
The Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands Patrick Strickland | 9781612199269 | Hardcover | 1/25/2022 | $27.99 This real-life Western tells the story of how… Read more »
MELVILLE HOUSE ANNOUNCES 500,000 COPY PRINTING OF FIRST IN-DEPTH BOOK ABOUT QANON PHENOMENON AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE
(Brooklyn, NY) Melville House Publishing is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of THE STORM IS UPON US: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything by… Read more »
On David Graeber
Brooklyn, September 2, 2020 — We are sad to announce the passing of our author David Graeber. He was 59 years old, and died yesterday in a hospital in Venice,… Read more »
Interview with Emily Powell (Powell’s) & Craig Popelars (Tin House)
Melville House co-publisher Dennis Johnson speaks with Portland, Oregon’s indie stalwarts Emily Powell, owner of Powell’s Books, and Tin House publisher Craig Popelars, about how their businesses have been impacted… Read more »
Interview with Portland booksellers Katherine Morgan and Kevin Sampsell
Melville House co-publisher Dennis Johnson interviews Portland booksellers Katherine Morgan, who works at Powell’s Books and Bookshop.org, and Kevin Sampsell, the small press buyer at Powell’s, and the publisher of… Read more »
Week 17: $1.99 Ebook Sale
Becoming Leonardo Mike Lanford In a book unlike anything ever written about the Renaissance genius, Mike Lankford explodes every cliché about Leonardo da Vinci and then reconstructs him based on… Read more »
Week 16: Ebook Sale
Ways to Hide in Winter Sarah St. Vincent Deep in Pennsylvania’s Blue Ridge Mountains, a woman befriends a mysterious newcomer from Uzbekistan, setting in motion this suspenseful, atmospheric, politically charged… Read more »
Week 15: $1.99 Ebook Sale
Strange Stars Jason Heller As the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom. Derided… Read more »