Melville House Books

Melville House is an independent publisher with offices in Brooklyn and London.

“We can read [the dreams] for their style, placing them at an important point in Perec’s literary development…its rebuses are not there to be solved, and we can only guess what lies behind its wordplay.” —Times Literary Supplement on La Boutique Obscure

“The text is superbly translated by Daniel Levin Becker, who has rendered Perec’s French into English with aplomb and resourcefulness, and who has moreover supplied a useful and engaging afterword.” —Review of Contemporary Fiction on La Boutique Obscure

“An excellent entry point into Cocteau’s work… The Difficulty of Being contains glimpses from all sides of his many-faceted self that made possible his fascinating artistic explorations across a lifetime.” —Bookslut on The Difficulty of Being

“A fascinating book for Italian food lovers.” —the Chicago Tribune on The Duke’s Table

Ancient texts

• Massive rare manuscript auction at Sotheby's
• St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing
• Queensland Museum discovers 3,000 year old fragments from Egyptian Book of the Dead
• The Art of War visualized
• A new Haggadah from two fiction writers

Environment

• Fifty Shades of Grey wastewater in Shanghai
• Henry David Thoreau, global warming activist
• You've Got Thirty Pages
• Whither weather? Ask a book
• Texas does us proud

Poll

• Poll: Should plagiarist Quentin Rowan write a book about his crimes?
• What would give eBooks the SAME value as physical books?
• This is the way the world ends: Ron Rosenbaum and WWIII
• Are you a Never-Better, Better-Never, or an Ever-Waser? Adam Gopnik on the Internet
• What is it about Moby-Dick?