Melville House Books

In case you missed it, in yesterday’s New York Times, Seth Hettena brought down some serious truth. In an opinion piece for the Times, Hettena—the author of Trump / Russia: A Definitive History—writes of Russian oligarch… Read more »

“Move-in Day” is the term used to describe an obscure national rite of passage that is loathed by all and sundry. Each year on this occasion, hundreds of thousands of… Read more »

In 2016 Phil Knight–the founder of Nike–published his memoir Shoe Dog. It jumped to #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list, and moved hundreds of thousands of copies. Now,… Read more »

This year, as in every year since 1981, Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West hosted its beloved Ernest Hemingway lookalike contest to celebrate the author’s birthday. On July 21, 2018, Papa would… Read more »

When my book Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded was about to come out earlier this year, I had plenty of discussions with Melville House’s… Read more »

In the beautiful American city of Brooklyn, near the Navy Yards and the future location of what will be the five boroughs’ first Wegman’s (we await you all breathless, o noblest grocery chain), between the crook… Read more »

“He used to put us on the carpet. We would sit on the carpet, and he would go around dragging us on this carpet all round the dining room.” That’s… Read more »

This week, the world looked on in shock, despair, and outrage as US Immigration and Customs Enforcement enacted a new immigration policy that can be described only as ghoulish, separating children,… Read more »

Happy solstice! Happy summer! And, not least of all, happy 179th birthday of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, widely regarded as one of Brazil’s greatest-ever writers, and the owner of what must… Read more »

When word came last Tuesday night that Philip Roth had passed away, I reacted inappropriately. Gentle reader, would you think less of me if I confessed that upon receiving the… Read more »