Melville House: 350 books
by Howard Rodman
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A dazzling, inventive literary adventure story in which Captain Ahab confronts Captain Nemo and the dark cultural stories represented by both characters are revealed in cliffhanger fashion.
A sprawling adventure pitting two of literature's most iconic anti-heroes against each other: Captain...
Poetry After 9/11
An Anthology of New York Poets
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The 10th anniversary edition of this important and inspiring collection is a sweeping overview of poetry written in New York in the year after the 9/11 attacks.
This 10th anniversary edition of the popular anthology contains poems by forty-five of the most important poets of the day, as well...
1913
The Year Before the Storm
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
An International Bestseller
“An absolute gem of a book.” —The Observer
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . .
It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong...
How to Sharpen Pencils
A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
A hilarious guide to the lost art of artisanal pencil sharpening
"...I am so thrilled David Rees is picking up the reins of the forgotten art of manual graphite-encased-in-wood point-crafting. I love my pencil!"
—AMY SEDARIS
"You may think that sharpening a pencil is...
Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Hunter S. Thompson was so outside the box, a new word was invented just to define him: Gonzo. He was a journalist who mocked all the rules, a hell-bent fellow who loved to stomp on his own accelerator, the writer every other writer tried to imitate. In these brutally candid and very funny interviews...
The Hollywood Economist 2.0
The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
A fully revised edition of the popular guide to Hollywood finances, updated to reflect even newer films and trends
In a Freakonomics-meets-Hollywood saga, veteran investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein goes undercover to explore Hollywood’s “invisible money machine,” probing the dazzlingly...
The Stop
How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
“[A] terrific book about a visionary post–food bank project.” —**Michael Pollan
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**
British super chef Jamie Oliver called it "amazing," writing that he'd traveled all over the world and never seen anything like it. New York Times food writer...
The Establishment
And How They Get Away with it
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A major bestseller in the UK and a six-time Best Book of 2014, The Establishment is a sweeping look at how power and money have made British politics hugely undemocratic. Power, money, and undemocratic politics—wait, does that sound familiar?
Who wields power in politics? It is a question...
by A. S. Patric
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
**Winner of the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award
A powerful debut novel about two refugees starting over after losing everything**
Jovan and Suzana have fled war-torn Sarajevo. They have lost their children, their standing as public intellectuals, and their connection to each other....
Among the Bankers
A Journey into the Heart of Finance
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector.
Joris immersed himself in...
by Edward Jay Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
One of America’s most acclaimed investigative journalists re-investigates some of the most notorious and mysterious crimes of the last 200 years
The beloved head of the UN dies in a tragic plane crash . . . witnesses unearthed years later suggest it wasn’t an accident. Theories behind the...
The Man Who Designed the Future
Norman Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes.
A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to Manhattan's most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama,...
Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
An extraordinary collection of pugnacious, charming, and revealing interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning author who defined and transformed American literature.
Hemingway was not only known for his understated style, but for his public image as America's greatest author and journalist--and...
The Art of Lying Down
A Guide to Horizontal Living
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
“A strange and dreamy voice . . . , like an Italo Calvino short story, curiously translated from some lost, obscure language.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
An utterly charming study of the history of lying down—which is more complicated than you might think
We...