Introductions, excerpts and afterwords from the newest Neversink titles
20 things you may encounter in the Melville House booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Visit Melville House’s booth #805-806 at the Brooklyn Book Festival, this Sunday, 9/21 from 10:00 to 6:00, to encounter the following: 1. Books for sale, at shockingly good prices 2. Our staff… Read more »
Ten Nights On Long Island: The Great Gatsby’s early reviews
In its first year, The Great Gatsby sold a disappointing 21,000 copies, less than half of the first year sales for This Side of Paradise or The Beautiful and Dammed.… Read more »
“The Strong Beat of Life” by Edith Wharton
The following is Edith Wharton’s introduction to William Gerhardie’s novel, Futility, releasing next month as part of Melville House’s THE NEVERSINK LIBRARY … There are few novelists nowadays, I suppose, who… Read more »
“The Fable of the Weasel,” by Alexander Cockburn
The following is Alexander Cockburn’s foreword to John Reed’s Snowball’s Chance, releasing in August as part of Melville House’s The Neversink Library. Snowball’s Chance takes its intriguing departure from Animal… Read more »
The Book of Khalid: “Its moment is now”
The Book of Khalid, the first Arab-American novel, stands as the foundational text of Arab-American literature, despite having been out of print in the United States since its first publication… Read more »