01/25/2021
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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.
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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.
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01/20/2021
This is the real story of #QAnon—what it is, what it means, and where it goes. And be warned—none of it is pretty.
Mike Rothschild, a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, explains all in his new book. → bit.ly/StormUponUs
01/19/2021
Fresh window display 🤩 just in time for Black History Month! Beach Books in Oregon is doin' it right!
Some of our fave books from our Last Interview series covering black representation, identity + diversity:
JAMES BALDWIN
MLK
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
BILLIE HOLIDAY
PRINCE
TONI MORRISON
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01/15/2021
Essential Reads for 2021 » MobyLives
There’s a long fight ahead. Check out these ~𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚜~ covering everything from the #impeachment process to how we can stop the #ClimateCrisis. ↓
https://www.mhpbooks.com/essential-reads-for-2021/
There's a long fight ahead this next week and beyond. Educate yourself on everything from the impeachment process to how we stop climate change. A Citizen's Guide to Impeachment by Barbara A. Radnofsky A non-partisan guide to a precise…
01/15/2021
Buzzing on Bookstagram: Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing » MobyLives
What's all the buzz on social media about?
'Bookstagrammers' are going wild for Jenny Odell's HOW TO DO NOTHING, an inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy.
https://www.mhpbooks.com/buzzing-on-bookstagram-jenny-odells-how-to-do-nothing/
Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing just celebrated its paperback release. And believe us when we say, this book is *blowing up* on social feeds. If you’ve ever found yourself thinking about your self worth as something that’s contingent upon…
12/18/2020
🌟 Day 18 of 25 DAYS OF BOOKS 📚
We have to rebuild the economy and restore the promise of equality! "Money From Nothing" by Robert Hockett and Aaron James is a major work of financial theory and practice with immediate relevance.
🎄 Our Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/17/2020
✨ Day 17 / 25 DAYS OF BOOKS ❄️
This is not your conventional biography. "Chalk" by Joshua Rivkin is poetic, strange, and personal— covering the life of artist Cy Twombly whose life and paintings are difficult to summarize in just a few words.
→ bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/16/2020
❄️ Day 16 / 25 DAYS OF BOOKS 📚
This book is many things: poetic, funny, frustrating, insightful, strange. Kirkus Reviews calls Ari Braverman's THE BALLAD OF BIG FEELING "an original, compelling, and enigmatic first novel."
🎁 Holiday gift guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/15/2020
🍁 Day 15 / 25 DAYS OF BOOKS ❄️
What are the effects of intergenerational + colonial traumas on #Native people like Alicia Elliot? This memoir covers a wide-range of topics like race, mental illness, poverty, gentrification, and representation.
🎁 → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/14/2020
👩⚖️ Day 14 / 25 DAYS OF BOOKS ❄️
Get to know American icon Ruth Bader #Ginsburg and the details of her fascinating life in a concise collection of in-depth interviews.
🎁 Shop the Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/13/2020
🪄 Day 13 / 25 DAYS OF BOOKS 🧙♀️
When #women gather, magic happens. Covens. Girl bands. Women-owned businesses. Ballet troupes. Sam George-Allen celebrates the power + pleasure of working with other women in this personal exploration.
🎁 Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/12/2020
❄️ Day 12 / 25 DAYS OF BOOKS 📚 She’s everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck.
Sady Dyle's TRAINWRECK takes a hard look at what it means to "behave" as a woman in a world where any form of self-expression is scrutinized.
Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/11/2020
❄️ Day 11 / 25 DAYS OF BOOKS 🎄
In a world that demands our attention, how do we do...nothing? Jenny Odell encourages us to question capitalist ideas of productivity and optimization, and instead value the peace that comes from simple observation.
→ http://bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/10/2020
🎄 Day 10 of 25 DAYS OF BOOKS ❄️
Calling all Beloved and Song of Solomon fans! Get to know Toni Morrison—a "national treasure" according to Barack Obama—in an intimate collection of thought-provoking interviews.
Our Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/09/2020
Day 9 of 25 DAYS OF BOOKS 📚
Who agrees that #Prince was one of the greatest musicians of his generation? (*raises hand*) This brilliant collection of interviews gives telling insights into this star's pioneer spirit.
🎁 Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/08/2020
🎄 Day 8 of 25 DAYS OF BOOK(stuff) 😉
Okay so maybe today isn't a book, but this "Bartleby the Scrivener" swag is 👌 Could any phrase encapsulate 2020 better than "I would prefer not to"?
❄️ Our Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/07/2020
☀️ Good morning sunshine, it's DAY 7 of 25 DAYS OF BOOKS! 📚
Based on the true events told to journalist Eva Nour, "City of Sparrows" is a coming-of-age story about a city under siege and the power of hope.
🎁 Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/06/2020
🎄 DAY 6 of our 25 DAYS OF BOOKS Advent calendar ❄️
Sometimes interactions with strangers are the best way to find yourself. Ellen Michaelson's debut novel, "The Care of Strangers" is a moving story about vulnerability.
🍬 Holiday Gift Guide here → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/05/2020
🌟 COVER REVEAL 🌟 Meet our newest memoir, "Pedro’s Theory" by Marcos Gonsalez (out 1/12).
"Pedro's Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land" is a breathtaking debut memoir chock full of cultural commentary on identity, race, and queerness in America. Marcos Gonsalez explores the lives of many Pedros—real and imagined—all hoping to discover an America of their own. From his childhood memories of being bullied for his mixed background to learning how to acclimate to present-day New York City and academia, this memoir asks the pressing question: What does it look like to be classified as "Other" growing up as a queer MexiRican in a predominantly straight, white America? Is there a Promised Land for these "Others"?
Pre-order it here → bit.ly/3oeCPl
#melvillehouse #memoir #pedrostheory
12/05/2020
🍬 DAY 5 of our 25 DAYS OF BOOKS roundup! ❄️
Emma Roberts included "What to Expect When You're Expecting" in her Belletrist gift guide, but what about... the unexpected? 👀 Melody Schreiber's anthology of premature birth stories is essential!
🎁 → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/05/2020
🍬 DAY 5 of our 25 DAYS OF BOOKS roundup! ❄️
Emma Roberts included "What to Expect When You're Expecting" in her Belletrist gift guide, but what about... the unexpected? 👀 Melody Schreiber's anthology of premature birth stories is essential reading for families grappling with the surprise of a premature baby!
🎁 Check out our Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/04/2020
📚 DAY 4 of our 25 DAYS OF BOOKS roundup! 🎁
Everyone here can agree that Anthony Bourdain's skills as a chef were simply, well, *chef's kiss* 😙👌 Dig into his heart-to-hearts with interviewers in this collection of blisteringly honest stories—such as when he talks about his battles with addiction, or when detailing his thoughts on restaurant critics.
Check out our Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/04/2020
📚 DAY 4 of our 25 DAYS OF BOOKS roundup! 🎁
Everyone here can agree that Anthony Bourdain's skills as a chef were simply, well, *chef's kiss* 😙👌 Dig into his heart-to-hearts with interviewers in this collection including blisteringly honest stories—such as when he talks about his battles with addiction, or when detailing his thoughts on restaurant critics.
Check our our Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/03/2020
🎄 Day 3 of our 25 DAYS OF BOOKS lineup! ❄️
Get a tour of the female dark side in Sady Doyle's "Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers." She illuminates the women who have shaped our nightmares paying particular attention to the primal threat of a woman who takes back her power. 👊
🎁 Check out our Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/03/2020
🎄 Day 3 of our 25 DAYS OF BOOKS lineup! ❄️
Get a tour of the female dark side in @sadydoyle's "Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers." She illuminates the primal threat of a woman who takes back her power. 👊
🎁 Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/02/2020
🎄 25 Days of Books 📚 DAY 2:
Can gentle people change the world? The charming novel "Leonard and Hungry Paul" by Rónán Hession aims to answer this question.
This is the story of two friends struggling to protect their understanding of what’s meaningful in life. It is about the uncelebrated people of this world — the gentle, the meek, the humble. Is it really them against the world, or are they on to something?
🎄 Check out our Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/02/2020
🎄 25 Days of Books 📚
Can gentle people change the world? The charming novel "Leonard and Hungry Paul" by Rónán Hession aims to answer this question.
This is the story of two friends struggling to protect their understanding of what’s meaningful in life. It is about the uncelebrated people of this world — the gentle, the meek, the humble. Is it really them against the world, or are they on to something?
🎁 Browse our Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
12/01/2020
It's December 1 so we're kicking off our 25 DAYS OF BOOKS lineup!
IMMORTALS OF TEHRAN by @ataraghi is perfect for magical realism + literary fiction readers— especially fans of Gabriel García Márquez + Yaa Gyasi's 'Homegoing.'
🎄 Holiday Gift Guide → bit.ly/MelvilleGiftGuide
11/30/2020
🤩 Our November stack 🤩
As the last day of November comes to a close, we're reflecting on the busy month we had publishing these books!
Care of Strangers → bit.ly/care_ofstrangers
What We Didn’t Expect → bit.ly/what_wedidntexpect
Night in Tehran → bit.ly/night_intehran
![🤩 Today’s #ebook deals [ends at midnight]:LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL → bit.ly/lahpbfd PRINCE → bit.ly/princebfd WHAT YOU BE...](https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/127280794_10164364146695402_3144140856230523418_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=3&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=R2O8gd5oWUQAX8tmuK7&_nc_ht=scontent-yyz1-1.xx&tp=7&oh=969c74b36e4c087f008ba8b445eb6e41&oe=605B9983)
11/30/2020
🤩 Today’s #ebook deals [ends at midnight]:
LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL → bit.ly/lahpbfd
PRINCE → bit.ly/princebfd
WHAT YOU BECOME IN FLIGHT → bit.ly/wybifbfd
CARE OF STRANGERS → bit.ly/caresbfd
HEALTH JUSTICE NOW → bit.ly/3hjnbfd
![Today’s #ebook deals [ends at midnight]:WHAT WE DIDN’T EXPECT → bit.ly/wwdebfd A WOMAN LIKE HER → bit.ly/awlhbfdANTHONY ...](https://scontent.fymy1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/127197555_10164364144075402_5917153394096493779_o.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=3&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=rpSOXrYNoPYAX9wxQYb&_nc_ht=scontent.fymy1-2.fna&tp=7&oh=3403edc4fb6dacbe9f7733a189aa8a0e&oe=605F5FD8)
11/29/2020
Today’s #ebook deals [ends at midnight]:
WHAT WE DIDN’T EXPECT → bit.ly/wwdebfd
A WOMAN LIKE HER → bit.ly/awlhbfd
ANTHONY BOURDAIN → bit.ly/anthonybfd
REVISIONARIES → https://bit.ly/revisbfd
TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE → bit.ly/twwwbfd
11/28/2020
Word of the day: Unputdownable
Used in a sentence: Sometimes you read the first chapter of a book and you then realize you've got an unputdownable book in your hands...
Read Chapter 1 of "The Ancient Hours" here → bit.ly/ancienthourschapter
11/28/2020
This #bookcover is quite literally out. of. this. world. 🤩
The paperback release of THE REVISIONARIES by @JuliusGoat is just around the corner (Dec. 1)!
More here → bit.ly/revisionariesbs
11/28/2020
👇Today’s #ebook deals:
MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND → bit.ly/amsootgbfd
BALLAD OF BIG FEELING → bit.ly/bigbfbfd
TONI MORRISON → bit.ly/tonimbfd
AUTHORITARIAN NIGHTMARE → bit.ly/authnigbfd
NIGHT IN TEHRAN → bit.ly/nitbfd
11/27/2020
📚 Are you ready for our Black Friday - Cyber Monday sale? Get 30% off ALL #BOOKS on our website! And be sure to check our daily #ebook deals — as low as $1.99!
🎁 Start shopping → bit.ly/BLACKFRIDAYBOOKS_mhp
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Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers
The second video in our interview series is live! This week, Melville House co-publisher Dennis Johnson talks to Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store and Gary Lovely, buyer at The Book Loft of German Village. Watch the full video here: https://www.mhpbooks.com/interview-with-danny-caine-and-gary-lovely/
Interview with Jessica Stockton and Johnny Temple
We're excited to announce the launch of a new interview series! This week Melville House co-publisher Dennis Johnson talks to Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, co-owner of Greenlight Bookstore, and Johnny Temple, publisher at Akashic Books. Watch the full video here: https://www.mhpbooks.com/interview-with-jessica-stockton-and-johnny-temple/
What are high crimes and misdemeanors?
A citizen asked: What does "high crimes and misdemeanors" mean? Barbara Radnofsky, author of A Citizen's Guide to Impeachment, has the answer. Read about Donald Trump's many high crimes and misdemeanors: bit.ly/2WshcBd
Don't just read the summaries—read the report! We're walking around New York City asking citizens to read segments of The Mueller Report.
HAPPENING NOW: Jessa Crispin, author of WHY I AM NOT A FEMINIST, live at Strand Book Store
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Tonight at powerHouse Arena!!! Feat contributors Linda Sarsour (Arab American Association of New York) and M Dove Kent (Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [JFREJ]). See you there!
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Book One – Luray
Published: November 2020
One of humanity’s colonies makes contact with an alien civilization that calls itself the Aurigan Empire. The empire politely demands the United Earth Military’s unconditional and immediate surrender and sends wave after wave of warships. Strangely, the Aurigan ships are technologically inferior, lack any sort of effective weaponry, and are easily shot down – or so the UEM claims.
When the colony’s investors start getting nervous, acclaimed risk assessment agent Luray Ulyssa Cayenne is sent to determine what is going on and whether the Aurigans truly pose a threat. What she finds is well beyond her pay grade, and what she does to uncover the truth could cost not only her freedom but her very humanity.
Enjoy a mysterious science-fiction story challenging the reader and asking difficult questions that will keep you awake at night.
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My review of The Diary of a Bookseller, from The Memphis Flyer:
You might well imagine how the little men, her friends and benefactors bewailed her death in their shock and consternation when they found Snow White utterly lifeless! How deep did they mourn and sorrow for her! Not a few more tender-hearted than the others howled and wept bitterly, as men sometimes do weep at unredeemable loss, but, even though Snow White was dead, her beauty, they beheld, had still the same delicate freshness, the very first blush of her innocent, budding peony-like youthfulness, such that they could not bear to see her immured in the clod forever. A bier and a glass coffin, they fashioned for her that was decorated with beaten silver, and finally, a team of black horses was hired to bring Snow White's body to a place of gentle repose in the mountainside where her beauty would undoubtedly be immortalized forever.
It is mid-morning. On a miry way, bound for the foot of the mountains where it debouched into another side-road, they found they had to stop because of traffic coming from the left. A foreign prince, with his handsome equipage, will be passing by and they heard the murmurs of English prose, being carried in the air, and then the prince lifted the blind and speaking with almost salubrious delight the versatile French tongue. He is Prince Michael Rhys Arthur-Collins and they saw him speaking with his aide-de-camp. Native nobility in his blood made him got down from his horse-drawn carriage though it was painfully obvious he was in great hurry, and he bared his head to pay his respect to the cortege and it was a wonderful sight to behold when his eyes alighted on Snow White inside the glass coffin, in the pearly hue of death but otherwise seemed to be sleeping; and just as sure as he is Prince Michael he was sure that he had loved her at first glance.
He made the dwarves understand that he had fallen in love with the most beautiful princess in the world although she was dead. Then, he ordered that the lid of the casket be lifted, and taking Snow White in his arms he said that she must be before his eyes, look upon her sweet face; otherwise, his breast will quit throbbing, and he took some pains to quote an obscure philosopher who wrote, ‘Love is a law onto itself!’
Bearing his beloved’s lifeless body he was getting nimbly into his royal coach when one of his front horses stamped its feet and flung off a shoe. At that moment, because of the jarring motion, the poisoned apple that had stuck fast in Snow White’s throat was dislodged and she breathed and opened her eyes although her faculties couldn’t make her recollect where she was or what had happened to her. Then her eyes met Prince Rhys’s and the last vestige of her deathly pallor was now being thoroughly superseded by the tint of rose-water; and now her future was sewn up, too! When Prince Michael had pieced together who it was that had tried to murder Snow White, there was a rare kindling of anger in his usually mild, fine grey eyes of the foreign prince and with his troops and horse guards he set out at once to bring the wicked Queen to justice and if failing that, to administer large doses o’ his very own. The orders he issued to his men were swiftly carried out and they entered Castle Du Quenoy, intending to arrest the Queen forthwith in the name of God and the law. However, she refused to take flight. With conscious dignity, she got up and sought the evil agency for help one last time. ‘There is no helping it now, it’s too late to repent!’ the thought must have certainly flashed across her mind. Suddenly, she thought she was now surrounded by shadowy waifs: two at her back and two in front. The two red-coated soldiers behind her twisted her arms to pin her down; while two in front likewise, with a length o’ steel wire, looped it around her front teeth in order to forcibly drag her away and as she struggled her sight swam and everything became streaks of blurred light. She managed to free an arm and dashed a candelabrum to the ground which soon set fire to the curtains and drapery and before long her entire boudoir was engulfed in flames. They managed, however, to drag the Queen away, and with quivering nether-lip, she confessed everything.
As for Snow White, she married Prince Michael Rhys and I still have the wedding invitation card in my drawer. In the Cathedral of one of the biggest city Parishes in the Prince’s home country, Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria was the added decorative touch to cap off that very June, the season of matrimony, on a gloriously sunny Saturday, as icing was to the cake, to complement the stirring trumpet music of Handel’s Eternal Source of Light Divine and put away the coat of sorrows for Snow White and all the lonely searching of her beloved husband. Snow White’s stepmother was also invited to dance at the newly-weds reception: only, clogs that had been heated red-hot were got ready for her to wear and this, she did and shrieked out her insides in little pieces; dancing until requiescat en pace her mortal company with Death she harrowingly kept. I still have my favorite memorabilia – the beautifully printed card -- and can show it to you if you desire to see it. ] -- From John Tan's The Incorruptible Princess (Snow White), Copyright, John Tan 2018 (Looking for a traditional publisher).
Melville House publishes fascinating factual accounts on topical and controversial issues. It also publishes books like "Diary of a Bookseller" which offers an often comedic respite from the world's madness.
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