In stores today: Sady Doyle’s Trainwreck
Britney Spears. Amy Winehouse. Miley Cyrus. Whitney Houston. Farther back: Sylvia Plath. Mary Wollstonecraft. And so on. As Sady Doyle writes in Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and… Read more »
On sale today: Networks of New York by Ingrid Burrington
What does the internet look like? Pursuing this basic question, author Ingrid Burrington—whom Atlantic editor Ross Andersen has called “the premier infrastructure writer in America”—created Networks of New York, a field… Read more »
Hillary Clinton is definitively not a trainwreck — is that at the heart of her likability problem?
Here at Melville House HQ, we’re chomping at the bit for September 20, when we get to publish Sady Doyle’s fierce, funny, and incredibly timely Trainwreck: The Women We Love… Read more »
“Sooner or later, chickens the size of 747s had to come home to roost”: An interview with Michael M. Thomas
In his novel Fixers, which we published in January, the great Michael M. Thomas answers a question that, for a while, we seemed to have stopped asking: How did Wall… Read more »
On sale now: Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor
We had many discussions in-house about the title that eventually became Good on Paper: How to evoke the equal-parts-thrilling-and-terrifying reality that the only certain thing in life is its uncertainty?… Read more »
On sale today: The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome by Serge Brussolo
Serge Brussolo might be the most famous writer you’ve never heard of. He’s as prolific as Stephen King, as brilliantly, disturbingly imaginative as Philip K. Dick and J. G. Ballard,… Read more »
On sale today: The Happy Marriage by Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Happy Marriage, by Tahar Ben Jelloun, is out today! Unlike much of the internet, I find the hubbub over spoiler warnings a bit overstated. Is it really such a… Read more »
Excerpt: Ernest Hemingway’s Last Interview
An extraordinary collection of pugnacious, charming, and revealing interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning author who defined and transformed American literature. Ernest Hemingway was not only known for his understated style,… Read more »
Excerpt: Nora Ephron’s Last Interview
A hilarious and revealing look at one of America’s most beloved screenwriters. Packed with her characteristic wit, wisdom, and charm, this collection of interviews with Nora Ephron celebrates a treasured voice in… Read more »
Excerpt: Philip K. Dick’s Last Interview
This collection of conversations with Philip K. Dick—on sale tomorrow—ranges from his very first interview, when he was just a 26-year-old kid from Berkeley, to the last, conducted the day before he suffered… Read more »