Melville House Books

Kathleen Rooney’s book of “autobiographical essays,” some of which were about her time as a “mid-level aide” to Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin and her “frustrations as a political office worker… 6 / Read more »

These days every part of the publishing process can be used to promote a new title. A few months back, Random House got a ton of great press for its… 2 / Read more »

They were a rather legendary outfit: The Unbearables. For the uninitiated: …. a loose confederation of poets and writers who came of age in 1980s and 90s New York. Infamous… Read more »

So you’re on the bus reading Tao Lin’s Shoplifting from American Apparel and you realize you’re reading a scene about a fictionalized event you were at. Then you read the… Read more »