In Memoriam: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti died on Monday, at 101 years of age the last surviving member of the fabled “Beat Generation” who re-shaped American culture so flamboyantly beginning in… Read more »
Hail & Farewell, Randall Kenan
Brooklyn, September 3, 2020 — Melville House is sorry to announce the passing of our friend and author Randall Kenan, who died on August 28th at the age of 57.… Read more »
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of The Shadow of the Wind, dies at 55
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the international hit 2001 novel The Shadow of the Wind, has passed away at the age of 55. Often critically lauded as the next great… Read more »
Hail and Farewell: Larry Kramer
It was announced Wednesday that legendary AIDS activist and author Larry Kramer has died of pneumonia at the age of 84. In the early 1980s, Kramer helped found the Gay Men’s… Read more »
Charles Sprawson, cult author of ‘Haunts of the Black Masseur’, has died
Sad news this week as it was announced that Charles Sprawson, author of Haunts of the Black Masseur, and widely regarded as the forerunner to the modern nature writing / wild… Read more »
Harold Bloom, (in)famous literary critic, dies at 89
Harold Bloom—literary critic and longtime Yale professor—died on Monday at the age of 89. Bloom was perhaps the bestselling literary critic of all time. He is most known for his rigorous… Read more »
Hail and Farewell: Jim Bouton
Hello sportsfans. It is our sad duty to report the passing of Jim Bouton—former New York Yankee All-Star pitcher, and perhaps the most famous literary chronicler of life in Major… Read more »
Celebrated editor and author Diana Athill dies, age 101
I first came across Diana Athill when I worked at Granta in the early noughties. Shortly after the publication of Stet: An Editor’s Life, and as a publishing newbie, I… Read more »
Todd Bol, founder of Little Free Library, has died
“Take a book, share a book,” is the slogan written across teeny wooden houses filled with books on the street sides across the United States and 80 other countries. We… Read more »
Re-reading a Hail and Farewell to James Alan McPherson
Today, on the second anniversary of James Alan McPherson’s passing, we’re revisiting this moving remembrance Melville House co-director Dennis Johnson wrote of him. It was originally published just a few days after McPherson… Read more »