Wishing the happiest 200th birthday to Herman Melville
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 »
Forthcoming book chronicles the story of Qandeel Baloch
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 »
An interview with Christopher Boucher, one of the Christopher Bouchers in Big Giant Floating Head, by Christopher Boucher
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 »
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Creepy Men: An unpublished chapter from Juliet the Maniac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 »