When the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to present an award for fiction last month, independent bookstores were frustrated at the lack of a winner, which would usually give them a sales boost from readers seeking out the year’s big winner (GalleyCat posted a roundup…
Since the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to present an award for fiction in 2011 last month, the New York Times invited eight literary experts to pick their winners for the prestigious prize. The group they polled include editors, critics, and novelists. Their hypothetical picks for…
London, 1 May 2012 — The Alliance of Radical Booksellers has announced that Melville House‘s Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber was the winner of the 2012 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. As described on the Alliance’s website, the award, launched to mark…
A point of clarification after yesterday’s post about the decision not to award anybody with the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year: it was the Pulitzer Board that decided not to present the fiction award, and not the jury, whose members selected the three nominated…
The Pulitzer Prizes were given out on Monday, with awards going to the Philadelphia Inquirer for public service in journalism, The Stranger‘s Eli Sanders for feature writing, and the late Manning Marable’s biography Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention for history, among others. For the first time in…
I know, I know, we’re supposed to be a bunch of highbrows over here at Melville House. Britain’s Independent newspaper called us an “upscale” publisher, some academic in Australia has credited us with starting a movement for — near as I can tell — a…
Forty-five years ago Oxford University Press published the first edition of William H. McNeill’s survey, A World History. It’s still in print. Now in its fourth edition, the book has not had significant trade sales in the US for at least a decade, according to…
South Korean novelist Shin Kyung-sook‘s novel Please Look After Mom has won the Man Asian Literary Prize, it was announced yesterday in Hong Kong. It is the first time the award has been given to a woman, and the first South Korean to ever win,…
“Each year, the editors of the Believer generate a short list of the novels and story collections they thought were the strongest and most underappreciated of the year,” and this time around they have selected a Melville House book: Lars Iyer’s Spurious. The timing is…
In their newly-released March issue, Scholastic‘s Parents magazine announces a list of the top one hundred books for kids. Culled from over 500 titles suggested by literacy experts, educators, and parents, the list is part of their literacy and reading issue. Scholastic hopes there are some surprises…
