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Interviews, never-before-seen photographs, rare essays by the author… Read more »

Happy happy birthday to Herman Melville! 200 years! Wowza. For readers that are New Yorkers, Poets.org put together this really impressive self-guided Herman Melville super fan walking tour that would… Read more »

This past Sunday, the Guardian featured a piece by Rachel Cooke on fellow journalist Sanam Maher and her book A Woman Like Her: The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch, which is out… Read more »

Full disclosure: This interview did not go as planned. I envisioned it as a cordial, informative conversation with one of the Christopher Bouchers who appear in the new mockmuster novel… Read more »

Animals, with the exception of some humans, do not listen to election promises. But the successful campaign of Benyamin Netanyahu for his fifth term as Prime Minister of Israel held… Read more »

Veteran Melville House author Rudolph Herzog sure knows how to spin plates. In addition to making his English fiction debut this October with the spooktacular story collection Ghosts of Berlin,… Read more »

  Listen along HERE. What would Captain Nemo be without his organ?  In The Great Eastern, the organ aboard the Nautilus was built for him by the legendary designer Aristide Cavaillé-Coll,… Read more »

This month the editors are looking daily through our submissions inbox. I know this because I am one of them. One question I get when encouraging people to submit is,… Read more »

This chapter didn’t make it into the published book (which you can find here), but we’re excited to share it as a standalone!   CREEPY MEN #1 By late summer after… Read more »

It’s May 2019. Do you know where your great nonfiction ideas are? Hopefully in our inboxes! That’s right: Melville House is excited once again to open up the ol’ submission email account for a reading period,… Read more »