Melville House Books

In case you hadn’t heard, the US Congress and President Obama are having a hard time agreeing to terms on raising the debt ceiling. Leaders from the Congress met yesterday… Read more »

For six years late in her life, the German author Irmgard Keun lived in the psychiatric ward in a hospital in Bonn. After being discharged in 1972 she lived an impoverished existence in a… Read more »

A lost-for-centuries memorial book kept at the burial site of Lord Byron in the days just after his death and signed with “personal tributes and several poetic laments … by… Read more »

ITW announces 2011 Thriller Award Winners Michael Connelly becomes 7th member of Kindle Million Club Flannery O’Connor cartoonist? and did she teach a chicken to walk backwards? A Crime Wave in… Read more »