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Melville House is excited to announce that the following Hans Fallada books were just reissued in handsome new paperbacks, and each title is also part of our Hybrid Book series, which… Read more »

Buy Bonsai the book, win tickets to Bonsai the movie Melville House is excited to offer five pairs of complementary tickets to the film premier of Bonsai at the New York IFC Center. Tickets… Read more »

Inspired by the holiday and the long days of summer, Melville House wants to help fill your hours with these wonderful books of interviews conducted with three giants from the… Read more »

Novelist Harry Crews has died from complications from neuropathy. Crews, who died at his home in Gainesville, Florida, was 76. “He had been very ill,” his ex-wife, Sally Crews, tells… Read more »

In Argentina, a new and bizarre piece of red tape means that imported books and magazines are being held at customs at Ezeiza airport, some 25 miles outside of Buenos… 1 / Read more »

As publishers, we here at Melville House are often in the position of trying to figure out how to revive interest in an old book that we think worthy of… 2 / Read more »

Listen, we know you love your Mom. We know you meant to have a gift in the mail by now, one she’d receive in time to open on Sunday. We… Read more »

We’re excited to invite you to some upcoming events featuring legendary Iranian author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, who — after a great deal of wrangling with the State Department — has come… Read more »

Three books from Melville House’s New York Poets Series, available now for 30% off the retail price!   *** IN THE HAIRY ARMS OF WHITMAN (hard cover) by Bill Kushner… Read more »

Book bloggers can win free trip to BEA Earl Scruggs, and the legend of his fingers Make my book a lasagna, please Literary flowchart He who climbs upon the highest… Read more »

Here at Melville House, we’re no strangers to the particular pleasures of digital publishing, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still enjoy a bit of printmaking pornography now and then.… Read more »

Purchase any one of our available e-books (PDF, KINDLE, EPUB) this weekend for 10% off. All you have to do is enter the coupon code “Ebook Exclusive” upon purchase. This… Read more »

David Graeber, author of Debt, the First 5,000 Years, has been nominated by Time magazine as one of 2012’s most influential people. Graeber, a former Yale professor and social-justice advocate,… Read more »