Last week, The Guardian asked Melville House author Lars Iyer where in the world his most recent, deliciously bizarre novel, Wittgenstein Jr, came from. Below, reprinted with the author’s permission, is… Read more »

The Irish author Kevin Barry has won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize for his novel Beatlebone. Barry was awarded the prize on Wednesday evening, and is the third recipient of the… Read more »

Goldsmiths College is launching a new and ‘inventive’ academic publisher named The Goldsmiths Press. Goldsmiths, which is located in South London, is part of University of London and is already… Read more »

On Monday, Knopf announced the forthcoming publication of The Strange Library, a new book by Haruki Murakami. The 96-page novel will be released in December, only three and a half… Read more »

People always ask us for holiday recommendations from our list. Tough one! The beauty of working at an indie is that you don’t have to work on books you don’t… Read more »

Melville House is celebrating the news that two of our books have been shortlisted for the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize, both Melville House UK author Lars Iyer’s Exodus and David Peace’s Red or… Read more »

A twenty-six year old philosophy nerd fell into conversation with a twenty-eight year old philosophy nerd while they waited in line for beer in an outdoor stall in the city… Read more »

Last year Spanish novelist Enrique Vila-Matas penned a column for the Spanish newspaper El Pais that praised Lars Iyer’s literary manifesto “Nude in your hot tub, facing the abyss.” Now… Read more »

Fellow book lovers: word is, the party’s over. Last year, Lars Iyer—Blanchot scholar, philosophy lecturer, and author of the self-evisceratingly hilarious novels Spurious and Dogma—asked: what do we do after the end… 1 / Read more »

“Each year, the editors of the Believer generate a short list of the novels and story collections they thought were the strongest and most underappreciated of the year,” and this… Read more »