It rained the evening of November’s meeting of the Melville House Book Club, and I don’t think a single one of us thought to bring along an umbrella. I certainly didn’t. Some… Read more »

(Editor’s note: If you’re in NYC, and you’re interested in talking about this novella with some very cool coffee fans, come to the inaugural Melville House Book Club at Brooklyn Roasting!… Read more »

As has now been widely reported, Philip Roth is done with writing. In an interview conducted in his upper west side home last week and published yesterday in The New… Read more »

At Melville House we pride ourselves at bucking a trend or two, at fighting the good fight for literary scruples, but there are some trends that even we can’t ignore.… Read more »

TODAY ONLY: Buy The Lesson of the Master or The Coxon Fund for just $5 each. Henry James died on this day in 1916, at the age of 72. He left… Read more »

To commemorate the passing of one of Melville House’s favorite writers, Alexander Pushkin, we’re running a weekend long sale on his seminal work of Russian prose fiction: Tales of Belkin.… Read more »