“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 »
DISPATCH FROM THE FUTURE, four poems by Leigh Stein
LEIGH STEIN’S first novel, The Fallback Plan, was hailed as “beautiful, funny, thrilling, and true” by Gary Shteyngart (Super Sad True Love Story). A former New Yorker staffer and frequent… Read more »
The Art of Translation: Kuprin’s The Duel (pt.3)
Believe the hype: literature-loving Americans are currently living in a golden age of translation. But what is translation? And how did it get so gilt? In 2008, the omnipotent demi-gods… Read more »
“Love is a Thing on Sale for More Money Than There Exists,” a short story by Tao Lin
This was the month that people began to suspect that terrorists had infiltrated Middle America, set up under- ground tunnels in the rural areas, like gophers. During any moment, it… 1 / Read more »
Q&A with Annie Janusch, translator of Brenner and God
Can you describe some of the challenges you faced in translating this title? By all appearances a crime novel, the real mystery of Brenner and God isn’t located in how… Read more »
Celebrating Herman Melville’s birthday
Today marks a special occasion here at Melville House as we celebrate the birthday of our namesake. Author of many famous poems, short stories, and novels, Herman Melville was born… 17 / Read more »
Happy birthday, Proust. Buy The Lemoine Affair for $5, today only
Happy birthday, Marcel Proust. He was born 141 years ago today. In celebration, we’re selling The Lemoine Affair, his hilarious early work, for $5 — that’s half the list price… Read more »
Rare appearance by master Iranian novelist on C-Span
Melville House author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, author of the recently released The Colonel and Missing Soluch, talks about the struggle to publish his novels in Iran and the banning of his work by Iranian… Read more »
David Graeber’s battle over the imagination
Artforum’s June issue features a terrific interview with David Graeber, author of Debt, the first 5,000 Years. The interview, conducted by Artforum editor Michelle Kuo, is sprinkled with eloquent takeaways, including… Read more »
A Travel Guide to New Venice: Culture and Science
This is an occasional series by Jean-Christophe Valtat, author of Aurorarama, now out in paperback from Melville House. Aurorarama is the first installment in Valtat’s The Mysteries of New Venice trilogy. Go here for Part I or Part II or… Read more »