Topics discussed: Paul and Linda McCartney, Wings, Paul McCartney and Wings, The Fireman, the big questions, President Obama, Thomas Pynchon, Alex’s family, Pontius Pilate, Satan, Jesus, Richard Farina, mustaches, V,… Read more »

Topics discussed: warmth, beach vacations, gently crashing waves, rust, Rust, Norwegian domestic terrorism, American domestic terrorism, the long tail, The Long Tail, Stewart O’Nan, Alex’s party skills, cynicism, poker, Authors… Read more »

Ödön von Horváth, author of the novels The Eternal Philistine and Youth Without God — the first in print and the second forthcoming from Melville House — died on this… Read more »

The Guardian reported yesterday that the German state Bavaria is supporting the publication of a new version of Mein Kampf. With copyright ownership expiring in 2015, it appears the state is prepared to… Read more »

Melville House is pleased to announce that Odon von Horvath’s The Eternal Philistine is now available! This never-before translated work by a major yet overlooked mid-20th century writer is a brutally… Read more »

For six years late in her life, the German author Irmgard Keun lived in the psychiatric ward in a hospital in Bonn. After being discharged in 1972 she lived an impoverished existence in a… Read more »