Melville House Publishing

Melville House Publishing Melville House Publishing is an independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Founded in 2001 by Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians.

The company was founded in 2001 and was named winner of the 2007 Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing, popularly known as the "indie publisher of the year" award. In January, 2008 Melville House moved to a new location in DUMBO, Brooklyn that combines a bookstore with an event space as well as their offices. Events will be held regularly and will feature Nobel Prize winners,

a "lunch-time" lecture series, and younger fiction writers. For more information go to their Wikipedia page, their official site, or (for a complete listing of books they have published) their Goodreads page. (See above)

Information about a recently published book will appear in the "Notes" section, which will be updated biweekly or monthly.

🕯️💋 “‘My best-friend is like a candle that always burns. She is a constant source of energy and inspiration for me and s...
04/08/2026

🕯️💋 “‘My best-friend is like a candle that always burns. She is a constant source of energy and inspiration for me and she says I am the same for her’. Testimony about friendship’s power danced across the pages of Shere Hite’s Women and Love.”

“It was an ambitious book. It ran to nine hundred pages and the print was small. Shere asked four thousand women about their love lives and relationships. She had intended to include women’s reflections on love in the first Hite Report but had run out of space.

“She used the same method as in the first two books. She developed a lengthy questionnaire. She asked women everything from ‘Are you in love?’ to ‘Have you ever felt you were “owned” or suffocated, held down in a relationship . . . ?’ to ‘What is your favourite way to waste time?’ and ‘Was your mother affectionate?’

“The book was one of the first to ask a large group of women about love and relationships since the upheavals of the women’s liberation movement. Shere argued that the movement had done wonders for women’s friendships.”

Rosa Campbell’s debut, The Book that Taught the World to Or**sm and Then Disappeared is out next week! Featured in , among other there, and named a book to read this month by and .

📸 Photos courtesy of Mike Wilson, photographer and friend of Shere Hite.

📚❔Are there stories you re-read❔📚 Written after release from a N**i asylum in 1947, and in just 24 days, Hans Fallada’s...
04/07/2026

📚❔Are there stories you re-read❔📚 Written after release from a N**i asylum in 1947, and in just 24 days, Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone is on the “books I go back to all the time and reread” list for Louise Erdrich.

The novel it’s more than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order—it’s a deeply stirring story of two people standing up for what’s right—even against impossible odds.

Erdrich, who just released her new collection Python’s Kiss, spoke with about texts that keep on giving.

“One that I hope people read during these times is Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada. A real story, but it reads like a novel, [it’s] about a couple whose son is killed in World War II. They live in Germany, and they decide to do what they can to resist what’s happening. It is a true story. It feels like what they do is so small, but it’s enough to get them killed. I think it’s really important to read that book.”

LOUISE ERDRICH was born in Little Falls, Minnesota. She’s an American author known for her rich, immersive storytelling on the Ojibwe people of the northern Midwest as well as other subjects. Among her acclaimed novels are The Round House (2012; winner of the National Book Award) and The Night Watchman (2020; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction).

HANS FALLADA was a German novelist who was one of the most prominent exponents of the realistic style known as Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity). His depiction of social misfits, which was influenced by his personal experience, resonated with readers at the turn of the 21st century as much as it did with Fallada’s contemporaries.

🫦📚 3 copies of The Book that Taught the World to Or**sm and Then Disappeared are waiting for you :) Featured in , , and ...
04/03/2026

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The Book That Taught the World to Or**sm and Then Disappeared • April 14

Author Rosa Campbell says: “In this book, I examine the worldwide impact, blind spots and furor over the now all-but-forgotten 1976 bestseller by ex-Playboy model Shere Hite. The Hite Report was the first book in the English speaking world to ask women about their s*x lives and publish the explosive results in their own words. It is the 30th bestselling book of all time, but has all but disappeared. This book explains why through tracing the celebrity rise and dramatic fall of Shere Hite.”

🔗 Tickets in bio! On April 15, brings Lore Segal’s final short story collection, Still Talking, to life 🎭 Starring Jame...
04/01/2026

🔗 Tickets in bio! On April 15, brings Lore Segal’s final short story collection, Still Talking, to life 🎭

Starring James Oliver Cromwell (), Toni Kalem (’s The Sopranos), Mary Beth Piel (), and others. Cellist Susan Salm will provide musical accompaniment. Curated, produced & directed by WORDTheatre’s Founder & Artistic Director, .fox.

This program is the closing celebration of the exhibition “And That’s True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal.”

James Oliver Cromwell is an esteemed actor and activist. Known for his extensive work as a character actor, he has received a Primetime Emmy Award as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Babe (1995).

Toni Kaley is an actress known for her various television credits, including guest appearances on Starsky and Hutch, MacGyver, Another World, and Police Woman.

is an actress known for her extensive work on Broadway and television, winning an Emmy for playing Mrs. Kendal in The Elephant Man and earning Tony nominations for Applause (as Eve Harrington) and The Dinner Party.

Cynthia Adler is one of the top commercial voice-overs and narrators in America, having worked extensively with HBO, Discovery Channel, and PBS.

is known for her stage and screen work, including films such as Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987), An Innocent Man (1989), and True Crime (1999). On television, she has appeared in Homeland (2014), The Blacklist (2013), and The Boys (2019).

is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater.

Vincent Piazza is an American film, television and stage actor. Currently a series regular in Taylor Sheridan’s Tulsa King (2022-present), Piazza had a role in The Sopranos, and went on to play Lucky Luciano in the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014).

🚬 North Texas, in stories. ’s debut fiction is as vivid and true to life as his award-winning reportage. A History of He...
03/28/2026

🚬 North Texas, in stories. ’s debut fiction is as vivid and true to life as his award-winning reportage.

A History of Heartache • April 21

☀️ Boys grow up fast in the blazing heat of North Texas, and men grow old before their time. A wayward son rides shotgun into a night he can’t take back. A janitor at an abortion clinic can’t outrun a ghost—or a camera. Strickland writes with clear-eyed realism and unsparing craftsmanship about common people—fathers and sons; widowers and junkies—poised on the knife-edge of hope.

🌪️ With taut sentences and a wicked sense of humor, these 14 stories chart the small mercies and big mistakes that make a life: the songs we inherit, the bottles we empty, the tools we fashion from whatever’s at hand.

💙 Gritty and tender in the same breath, this debut fiction collection asks what it costs to stay, what it takes to leave, and who we become when we do. Readers of Denis Johnson and Ron Rash will recognize the hard light, bruised humor, and sudden grace that burn throughout.

Patrick Strickland is an award-winning journalist and author from Texas who has reported from some fifteen countries across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, covering immigration, the rise of the far right, humanitarian catastrophes, armed conflict, and more. He was a 2024 Writer of Note. His reportage has appeared in , The Nation, The New Republic, Politico, The Guardian, Vice, In These Times, and elsewhere. Based in Athens, Greece, his previous books are Alerta! Alerta! Snapshots of Europe’s Anti-Fascist Struggle, The Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands, and You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave: Refugees, Fascism, and Bloodshed in Greece.

, release day can’t come fast enough ⏳ GOOD GUYS • Mindy Misener • Oct 2026In a small town, two estranged sisters become...
03/24/2026

, release day can’t come fast enough ⏳

GOOD GUYS • Mindy Misener • Oct 2026

In a small town, two estranged sisters become embroiled in a crime involving a local war “hero”…

🫥 Georgie and Jo are sisters, but they aren’t close. The situation seems worse once Jo goes off to college, making it obvious she’s happy about leaving Curtisville and Georgie and their disabled father behind.

🛐 Then, Gary Clemmons dies in the Iraq War. Gary—the son of their pastor, the hero of their hometown, and the brother of Georgie’s secret girlfriend—was famous for being a good guy. But Georgie stumbles on a dark secret about Gary 🔎

🌀 Jo finds out, things begin to spiral out of control. The fallout will change both sister’s lives forever. In the end, Good Guys uncovers the underbelly of a small town—the darkness of patriotism and masculinity, the harm caused by religious fervor, and the ways these affect a family.

About : Mindy Misener grew up in Maine. She is a graduate of University of Michigan’s . After teaching college writing for ten years, she made a career change and enrolled in . She is on track to be ordained in the UCC. Her prose has appeared in Image, The Missouri Review, CrossCurrents, The Appalachian Review, The Pinch, The Common, and other outlets.

Our country is plagiarizing satire novels. For March, it’s ’s. Do they have writers residencies at Delphi? 🏀🔮🪽“Alas, it’...
03/19/2026

Our country is plagiarizing satire novels. For March, it’s ’s. Do they have writers residencies at Delphi? 🏀🔮🪽

“Alas, it’s all but certainly a contest without a winner...Or, rather, a contest [] is foretold to win. I mean, look at all the free advertising we’re giving hi—“ (9)

Relevant bittersweet news: we are closing as a book publisher 💔 but reopening as a betting market! 🤑 First odds we’re giving: Will sit down with thoughtful contemporary fiction? Investment opens at -430 points on no.*

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🍽️ Out now! : ”Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature.” In her final coll...
03/17/2026

🍽️ Out now! : ”Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature.” In her final collection Still Talking, the eagerly-awaited follow up to Ladies’ Lunch, beloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal brings to life old friends who have loved and lunched together for four decades.

STILL TALKING • March 17, 2026

🌗 Lore Segal was a master of the short story. Still Talking shows her in peak form. Profound, dark, and often hilarious, Segal portrays her characters foibles, eccentricities and passions with great compassion and exactness, as they grapple with life, aging, and each other.

🗣️Readers of Ladies’ Lunch will recognize the educated, urbane nonagenarian women who have been friends for a lifetime, as they tackle aging’s affronts with wit, grace and resourcefulness.

♥️ With an introduction by feminist writer and critic Vivian Gornick—see slide two!

Hear me out…‘Baleen’ as a child’s name? 🐋2: Print Ink Upon It! used lithograph skills to bring the cover for ’s latest ...
03/11/2026

Hear me out…‘Baleen’ as a child’s name? 🐋

2: Print Ink Upon It! used lithograph skills to bring the cover for ’s latest to life 😍

3: got colorful with the edges of some great novel’s, including Flux by .

4: A friendly mugging - rendered We Live Here Now in pottery form, in honor of ’s storytelling achievements.

5: Margaret Talbot covered The Book that Taught the World to Or**sm and then Disappeared in .

6: interviewed at .

How did Shere Hite and her work disappear from public consciousness? ’s Margo Talbot explores The Book that Taught the W...
03/04/2026

How did Shere Hite and her work disappear from public consciousness? ’s Margo Talbot explores The Book that Taught the World to Or**sm and Then Disappeared. 🔗 Link in bio.

Rosa Campbell says: “In this book, I examine the worldwide impact, blind spots and furor over the now all-but-forgotten 1976 bestseller by ex-Playboy model Shere Hite. The Hite Report was the first book in the English speaking world to ask women about their s*x lives and publish the explosive results in their own words. It is the 30th bestselling book of all time, but has all but disappeared. This book explains why through tracing the celebrity rise and dramatic fall of Shere Hite.”

Rosa Campbell is a historian of global feminism and writer based in London. She is a fellow London and holds a PhD from the . She has written for , , .independent, , and , among others.

Alley oops….🏀 Happy pub day to MEDIUM RARE! You’ve *never* read myth retelling quite like this. transforms the Greek fa...
03/03/2026

Alley oops….🏀 Happy pub day to MEDIUM RARE! You’ve *never* read myth retelling quite like this. transforms the Greek fable of Icarus into a blazing romp through bureaucracy, B-list fame, and NCAA March Madness.

Medium Rare • March 3, 2026

🪽 Phil is ordinary. A mid-level Washington lobbyist for a decidedly uns*xy organization, unhappy in the way all mildly successful, minimally influential men are. That is until the spring of 2019, when Phil’s picks for the NCAA March Madness Tournament start panning out, and heads begin to turn his way. He really may do it: predict a perfect bracket, for a billion-dollar prize.

🔮 At first, Cassandra is just along for Phil’s soaring rise—she had foreseen it happening, after all. Despite moving in different circles since their shared university days and Cassandra never much liking him, she recognizes in Phil the making of a legend worthy of the highest art. What Cassandra fails to predict, though, is just how much she’d grow to care about Phil’s wife, Raleigh—and that the grandest narrative arcs sometimes unfold at the steepest of personal costs.

🏀 Dazzling in its absurd comedy, MEDIUM RARE e is not only a gambol through the upper echelon, but also a shrewd examination of madness, desire, and credibility—why don’t we listen when prophetic women speak? A. Natasha Joukovsky delivers a story as layered and incisive as it is high-flying fun.
Tomorrow (!) March 4 • Join , , and for a launch at in NYC. See other events on slide 3 and in bio!

🚨 This morning, ICE detained Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva from a campus building. Reports are that federal agents pos...
02/26/2026

🚨 This morning, ICE detained Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva from a campus building. Reports are that federal agents posed as NYPD. The reason Aghayeva was targeted is still unknown.

This week, we published Columbia prof. Bruce Robbins’s WHO’s ALLOWED TO PROTEST? Through his book, Robbins takes seriously the risks non-citizen students face when exercising free of speech, and how institutional status quo at universities leave students vulnerable to government targeting. We’re sharing his epilogue as a resource.

IF you’re not in the streets, it’s a good day to study.

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Bruce Robbins is an American literary scholar, author and an professor at Columbia University. He is the author of several book, including, Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction (2022, Atrocity: A Literary History (2025), and Who’s Allowed to Protest. He faced right wing attacks and an investigation from his employer for teaching a section of his course inside the Gaza solidarity encampment on Columbia’s campus.

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