The return of the Melville House Librarian Preview
On June 21st, Melville House will relaunch a highly popular piece of programming, the Librarian Preview. Beginning at 2:30PM at our offices in the heart of DUMBO, Brooklyn, we invite… Read more »
Maybe we can blame the canon for the incel rebellion?
A little more than a month ago, Alek Minassian murdered ten people in Toronto in an effort to advance the “incel rebellion” — a movement among extremist members of the… Read more »
Mary Wollstonecraft to become the subject of some Bronze Statuecraft
In the US, it’s been a weird and unchill year for statuary. In the UK, where things are looking a lot chiller, they took another turn for the brighter this week, when… Read more »
You say classic, I say Melville House classic! A totally subjective selection of ten of our books bound for the ages
We’re all going to hell, but hopefully with the impending destruction of the universe more space will open up for new peaks of literary greatness. Luckily, Maddy Foley over at Bustle… Read more »
Anatomy of a Trainwreck: Valerie Solanas
Today, on what would have been the eighty-third birthday of would-be Andy Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas, we’re revisiting this passage from Sady Doyle’s Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… And… Read more »
Sylvia Plath’s typewriter, clothing, wallet, and other items sold at auction
For the Los Angeles Times, Michael Schaub reports that “scores” of intimate items that once belonged to Sylvia Plath—including a first edition of The Bell Jar, signed by Plath; Plath’s… Read more »
Two lost Charlotte Brontë manuscripts will be published this year
Big news for Charlotte Brontë fans. The eldest Brontë, who is, of course, best-known for writing Jane Eyre—a novel some of us are forced to read in middle school but don’t come… Read more »
Sylvia Plath would have turned eighty-five today
By the time she took her life in 1963, Sylvia Plath had written enough poetry for five collections, a novel, a short story collection, and four children’s books. She was thirty years… Read more »
Now in paperback: Sady Doyle’s Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… And Why
Britney Spears. Amy Winehouse. Miley Cyrus. Whitney Houston. Even Hillary Clinton. Then farther back: Sylvia Plath. Mary Wollstonecraft. And so on. As Sady Doyle writes, “She’s everywhere once you start looking… Read more »
Revisiting the Trainwreck Files: Donald Trump
Today, as we celebrate the paperback release of Sady Doyle’s Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… And Why, we’re remembering Sady’s awesome MobyLives series, The Trainwreck Files, in… Read more »