Who can annex a gazelle?
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 »
Rudolph Herzog has a new book and a new film, what about you?
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 »
A musical journey through The Great Eastern
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 »
Actually, we do publish manuscripts sent to the slush pile
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 »
Creepy Men: An unpublished chapter from Juliet the Maniac
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 »
The second annual Melville House nonfiction open reading period
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 »
Author of How to Do Nothing doing something with NPR
I was so psyched about Jenny Odell’s fantastic interview with NPR’s Think with Krys Boyd that I had to share it with our dedicated Mobiers. Here’s the first snippet of conversation… Read more »
The RSL Ondaatje Prize longlist is revealed and includes Melville House author S.K. Perry
Let Me Be Like Water by our very own British author, S.K. Perry, is a beautifully moving, poignant, and lyrical debut novel set in Brighton, a seaside town in England.… Read more »
The Hundred Acre Wood is burning down as UK temperatures reach record highs
While my esteemed colleagues in the Melville House Brooklyn office are experiencing freezing conditions, in the UK we’re living through the hottest winter on record. It’s debatable as to when… Read more »
The importance of the novella: Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Perhaps one of the things Melville House is known for is celebrating a specific renegade art form: the novella. Here on our MobyLives blog, we’re diving into a post series in which we’ll discuss and… Read more »