Melville House: 350 books
Nora Ephron: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
For fans of When Harry Met Sally and readers of I Feel Bad About My Neck (which is to say, almost everyone!) comes an indispensible collection of wit and wisdom from the late, great Nora Ephron
A hilarious and revealing look at one of America's most beloved screenwriters. From the beginning...
Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview
And Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998, journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist...
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A departure from the stories Elizabeth Gaskell wrote for Charles Dickens’s Household Words magazine*, The Poor Clare* is a dark, gothic novella of thwarted love and a family curse that vividly illustrates the social tensions of Victorian England.
The purposeful slaying of lonely Bridget’s...
Eurovision
A History of Modern Europe Through the World's Greatest Song Contest
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Do you think the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, with its crazy props, even crazier dancers and crazier still songs has nothing to do with serious European politics? Think again. It has been a voice of rebellion across the Iron Curtain, an inspiration for new European nations in the 1990s and...
Future Days
Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary New Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
A sweeping history of the men and women who transformed postwar Germany—and created a musical genre that revolutionized rock and roll and gave birth to hip-hop.
West Germany after World War II was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift from the rest of Europe. But...
The Cleanest Race
How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Understanding North Korea through its propaganda
What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them?
Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean...
by Lewis Lapham
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Halfway between the summer of love and the Tet offensive, the Beatles went to India to study with the Maharishi—and Lewis Lapham, esteemed Harper's editor and award-winning writer, was there. WITH THE BEATLES is a remarkable book of cultural commentary on that seminal '60s moment.
The ashram...
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it's as urgent now as ever to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
Strange Stars
How Science Fiction and Fantasy Transformed Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when rock ’n’ roll met the sci-fi world of the 1970s
As the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrated...
Melancholy Accidents
Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Did you know that fatal gun mishaps have been so common in America that for centuries, newspapers carried regular columns reporting on “melancholy accidents”?
It came as a surprising discovery when, while conducting research that involved reading colonial-era newspapers, acclaimed writer...
by Virgie Tovar
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it - and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world...
J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview
And Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
From the moment J. D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, he was stalked by besotted fans, would-be biographers, and pushy journalists. In this collection of rare and revealing encounters with the elusive literary giant, Salinger discusses—sometimes willingly, sometimes grudgingly—what...
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
When Edgar Allan Poe’s only novella was first published in 1838, the reviews were slow in coming and dismissive when they arrived. The book’s failure left Poe in such dire financial straits that he even accepted a job at one of the magazines that had panned it. But The Narrative of Arthur Gordon...
by Hernan Ronsino
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Glaxo is a chilling novel of betrayal, romance, and murder, from a major Latin American writer being published in English for the first time.
In a derelict town in Argentina's pampa, a decades-old betrayal simmers among a group of friends. One returns from serving time for a crime he didn't...