The Brooklyn Rail’s Kate Trainor profiles Melville House with an interview of publishers Valerie Merians and Dennis Loy Johnson, asking them “How did MobyLives evolve into Melville House?” “With a book of poetry,” Merians explains. “After 9/11, poets were sending Dennis poems to put up on MobyLives, so we decided, well, let’s make a little book out of this. And things got out of hand from there.”