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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.

12/12/2025

🎁 $11 - $14 🎁 Luminous intros: on Prince, Patricia Lockwood on Joan Didion, on John Lewis, on Sinead O’Connor, on Shirley Chisholm, Nikki Giovanni on Toni Morrison, on bell hooks, and so many more.

Shop the full Last Interviews series at 🔗 in bio!

🎭 The world’s most iconic artists, writers, thinkers, political and cultural figures have choice words for you—and your gift list. Lifelong fans and the newly-fascinated both to love these slim, well-crafted volumes of career-spanning conversations. Tap in! 🐋

12/10/2025

🎁 The only objective year-end list?? 🎁 We argued. We laughed. We cried. There were 100s of qualified titles. Finally we saw that in every respect, these 30 books are truly 30% off. (Like every paperback and hardcover book on our site).

, Toni Morrison, , , .pepi, , .varoufakis, Jane Austen, , , David Graebar, so many more—most under $14!

🔗 in bio to browse 🐋 🎁

12/09/2025

🌃 Placeless 🌃 In the tradition of Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted”, longtime housing activist presents a myth-breaking account of why homelessness endures in contemporary America.

1️⃣ hosts a standing-room-only collaborative launch for Placeless, like only they can ❤️. Big thanks to moderator Sam Stein!

2️⃣ Attendees shout out housing orgs to support, join, and follow 🌇

3️⃣ Staff picks 📚

4️⃣ (The audio you hear): Tonya Mosely speaks with Patrick about on-the-ground realities and housing-first policy.

5️⃣ Read an excerpt about the Tunnel Home community formed back in the 1990s in

🏠 Follow + support! 🪧

Patrick Markee is the former deputy executive director for Advocacy of the Coalition for the Homeless in NYC, and a member of the board of directors of . He has authored numerous research studies on houselessness and housing policy, and has written for and . He lives in New York City.

12/07/2025

Is that book, u know 👀…on sale? 👀 Yes. All of them. Meaning , , , all under $14. 🔗 in bio to browse 30% off all books and enjoy 🐋

12/05/2025

🧟 January 13 🧟 “Get ready for the ghouls to grab you and not let go.” — . Yesterday .satchkova came by our office and unboxed finished copies of THE UNDEAD! Available for pre-order now.

THE UNDEAD: A Novel of Modern Russia • Jan 13

🎬 Follow the story of a young, low-budget horror filmmaker in who runs afoul of a government that doesn’t take kindly to artists satirizing the regime...even if she didn’t really mean to.

💥 What follows is a propulsive, darkly funny tale of Maya and her hapless, headstrong friends, and the choices they make under the spectre of state pursuit.

🔮 Written with the the savviness of an emigre from Putin’s Russia, THE UNDEAD is a piercing debut—a parable about art making, absurdity, and atmospheric repression.

Svetlana Satchkova is a Russian-born journalist and writer who immigrated to the United States in 2016. She is an established arts journalist with bylines in the , , , and others. She is currently a research fellow at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at , has an MFA from Brooklyn College, and lives in Brooklyn. The Undead is her first novel in English.

12/03/2025

“…inside the tunnel, working alongside some remarkable people who’d managed to survive some unimaginably trying circumstances, I saw what was possible when both their needs and their hopes were met. Even more, I learned some crucial lessons about the enduring, and pernicious, myths surrounding homelessness, and the way those myths not only warped New York’s response to the crisis but shaped the approach adopted by scores of other cities.

Now, all these decades later, I have been horrified to watch as the most extreme versions of these policies make a comeback, this time at the hands of Donald Trump.“

Read from Patrick Markee’s Placeless: Homelessness in the New Golden Age online and in the January print edition. Link in bio. 🌃

Tonight, Dec 3: Join Patrick and journalist Sam Stein for a conversation , 7pm - 9pm.

12/02/2025

🐋 No code required. Every book, in every format. 🐋

‘‘Tis the season for really good reading (and gifting 🎁). Link in bio! We can’t wait to send you books 🤓

A few titles we’re honored to offer include The Country Under Heaven, voted Best Horror of 2025 by ; The New York Times Bestseller Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook; and the sleeper hit of the year Sunburn, a debut novel by .

NOTE 📦: The last day for holiday shipping is December 15th, and any orders placed after December 22nd will be shipped after January 5th.

12/01/2025

🐋 No code required. Every book in every format. 🐋

‘Tis the season for really good reading (and gifting🎁) Link in bio! We can’t wait to send you books 🤓

A few titles we’re honored to offer include The Country Under Heaven, voted Best Horror Book of 2025 by the ; the New York Times Bestseller Antifa: the Anti-Fascist Handbook; the prestigious -winning novel We Live Here Now by the great C.D. Rose; and the sleeper hit of the year, the indie bestseller Sunburn, a debut novel by Chloe Michelle Howarth.

NOTE 📦: The last day for holiday shipping is December 15th, and any orders placed after December 22nd will be shipped after January 5th.

11/27/2025

That’s not just any whale, you know. That’s a salewhale 🐋 Get 30% off every title on our site, in every format. Just 1) Join the newsletter (link in bio), 2) Get your 30% off code, and 3) Fill a cart 📚

Oh, and share with your pod! 🐳🐳🐳 Current subscribers, you won’t be left out—watch your inbox this week. Here are a few faves, ready to ship...

SUNBURN by : A Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best Books” Pick for 2025 ; INDIE NEXT pick for July 2025; A Pacific Northwest Indie Bookseller Association Bestseller.

FLUX by : A Best Book of 2023; A Editor’s Choice; A Most Underrated Sci-Fi on Goodreads; The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award 2024 (Finalist); PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel 2024 (Longlist)

HOW TO DO NOTHING by : **A New York Times Bestseller **; NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: • • • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • •

ANTIFA by Mark Bray: **A New York Times Bestseller **; “Focused and persuasive . . . Bray’s book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of antifa . . . and a record of advice from anti-Fascist organizers past and present.”—

THE COUNTRY UNDER HEAVEN by Frederic S. Durban: “Best Books of 2025: Science Fiction” Award— ; #1 Best Horror Book of 2025.

DILF by Jude Doyle: “DILF thoroughly pulled apart several built-in assumptions I knew I had about the world, several I didn’t know I had about the world, and still more I didn’t even begin to imagine I had about our ever fractious society. Jude Doyle is an incredibly incisive writer who is also quite funny, which is a rare combination.” — , author of Woodworking

JAMES BALDWIN: The Last Interview — One of the most revelatory interviews of Baldwin’s career, plus a vibrant archive of other conversations.

11/20/2025

🏘️ Out soon! 🏘️ from veteran Patrick Markee…

Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age • Dec 2, 2025

🗣️ Pundits and politicians, whether cynical or earnest, too often frame homelessness as a social work issue, a result of “personal pathologies,” or an exceptional type of poverty.

🎯 In the tradition of Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted,” Patrick Markee shows that unhoused people are unhoused as a consequence of economic shifts inaugurated in the Reagan era, worsening inequality, private developer incentives, systemic racism, and neoliberal policies.

🌇 There are proven ways out of this manufactured crisis. Markee identifies real, achievable solutions—bold steps towards more safety and security for *everyone* in our communities.

Patrick Markee is the former deputy executive director for Advocacy of the Coalition for the Homeless in NYC, and a member of the board of directors of .He has authored numerous research studies on houselessness and housing policy, and has written for and . He lives in New York City.

11/11/2025

🥀3 galleys🥀 of ’s HEAP EARTH UPON IT are ready to ship to lucky winners! 🔗 in bio for newsletter sign up—full instructions below ⬇️ Watch this space for more about HEAP EARTH ahead of February’s release.

A must read for fans of Biography of X, Mrs. S, Organ Meats, All Our Wives Under the Sea, or, of course, Sunburn ☀️🥀

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Heap Earth Upon It: A Novel • Feb 3, 2026

🛤️ The O’Leary siblings arrive in their new village under suspicious circumstances. Desperate to make a new start and leave their troubled life behind, the O’Learys offer few, contradicting details about their past.

🕯️As they slowly settle in to town, the siblings are taken under the wing of Betty and Bill Nevan, a wealthy couple in their forties who have always wanted children. However, as one O’Leary sister grows close to Betty, lines are crossed and their intense relationship becomes difficult to define. All the while, the O’Leary’s buried secrets keep bubbling up, threatening to ruin their new future.

🫀Gothic, lush, and suspenseful, Heap Earth Upon It is a tangled web that leaves you wondering who to trust until the very last page.

11/07/2025

🎭 “Hilarious and deeply haunting”: biggest congrats to 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner , and his latest, We Live Here Now! The book was praised by judges as “constellatory…and supremely entertaining.” The £10,000 award, now in its 13th year, honours “mould-breaking” fiction. Last year’s winner was Rachel Cusk for Parade.

We’re overjoyed at the recognition of a singular talent—now go read some C.D. 🥰 (🔗 excerpt in bio)

Thanks to all the judges, to visionary for the write up in , and to Emma Flanagan for coverage in .

•• We Live Here Now: A Novel ••

🎨 When visitors to a famous conceptual artist’s installation start mysteriously disappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives, and launching them on a crazy-quilt trajectory that will end with them all together at one final, apocalyptic bacchanal.

🌀 Mixing illusion and reality, simulacra and replicants, sound artists and death artists, performers and filmmakers and theorists and journalists, We Live Here Now ranges across the world of weapons dealers and international shipping to the galleries and studios on the cutting edge of hyper-contemporary art. It spins a dazzling web that conveys, with eerie precision, the sheer strangeness of what it is like to be alive today.

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