We’ve got kind of a thing for Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener. We scriven publish it in our Art of the Novella series. We offer totes and tees scrivened emblazoned… Read more »

It rained the evening of November’s meeting of the Melville House Book Club, and I don’t think a single one of us thought to bring along an umbrella. I certainly didn’t. Some… Read more »

Title: Bartleby the Scrivener Author: Herman Melville First published: in two parts in Putnam’s magazine, November and December 1853. Page count: 64 First line: I am a rather elderly man.… Read more »

The Department of Labor, begrudgingly founded by William Howard Taft on the last day of his presidency, turned 100 last year and celebrated by compiling a reading list of “Books… Read more »

This past weekend, we packed a car full of novellas, Neversinks, and Last Interviews and set off to Boston for the annual Modern Language Association conference. This was the first… Read more »

Above, two posters spotted in New York advertising May Day festivities connected to Occupy Wall Street. (The poster on top is hanging in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the other in the… 2 / Read more »

Help loved ones Occupy their preferred holiday this year with our ready-to-go Occupy Wall Street bundle. This amazing offer will help friends and relatives avoid being caught flat-footed by Koch… Read more »

With the release of The Duel x5 earlier this year, Melville House announced a new digital innovation, HybridBooks, which combines the concept of a digitally enhanced eBook with the printed… 2 / Read more »