Melville House Books

Earlier in the summer (and recently noted at The Rumpus), the Recorder of Greenfield, Massachusetts wrote about a community college librarian who saved her library’s card catalog by transforming it. After… Read more »

It’s a truism of the publishing industry that any book with a dog on its cover will sell. (We’ve been known to try it ourselves here at Melville House on… Read more »

Publishers Weekly reported last week that actress Jessica Lange has written a children’s book, It’s About a Little Bird, that will be published by Jabberwocky, an imprint of Chicago-based publisher… Read more »

Giusepi Plazzi, an Italian academic, recently wrote an unconventional essay on Dante and his famous Divine Comedy.  Plazzi’s academic background might have suggested an odd approach: rather than working in… Read more »