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Aurorarama author Jean-Christophe Valtat was a guest of honor at not one but two steampunk festivals over the last nine days. Jules Verne would be so jealous. Over the next couple weeks images and videos will begin to manifest from these two splendid outings. Naturally…
Edward Jay Epstein made headlines two weeks ago with a big interview with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, drawn from his ebook original Three Days in May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK, just out from Melville House and reviewed in the New York Times here. Just days after DSK…
What is steampunk? Is it important? Does genre have an important role in literary culture? Or is genre troublesome, as Soren Kierkegaard may have unintentionally implied when he wrote that “Once you label me you negate me.” On the eve of his second steampunk festival…
I have spent the last 10 months investigating the incident of May 14, 2011 involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn, which has resulted in Three Days In May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK. I have had considerable success obtaining CCTV surveillance tapes from around the hotel, the key swipe records…
This is an occasional series by Jean-Christophe Valtat, author of Aurorarama, which releases on May 1st from Melville House. Aurorarama is the first installment in Valtat’s The Mysteries of New Venice trilogy. Read Part I or Part II here- CUSTOMS AND CHARACTER The life…
Last Friday Melville House did the new-age version of something we first got a reputation for doing during the Bush administration — “crashing” a book (making it really fast) on a timely topic. We’ve always loved this. This country was partly inspired by a crashed…
Melville International Crime author Mukoma Wa Ngugi was recently interviewed by Kali TV, an independent news program that focuses on the stories of Africans living in the diaspora. Wa Ngugi’s philosophy and approach to literature and life is rendered plain in this short video. He…
The Book of Khalid has a fascinating and important history starting with its place as the first Arab-American novel. Ameen Rihani’s sojourning tale of turn-of-the-century life in New York captures an important and overlooked place in American history. Innovative in form and important in subject,…
We’re less than a month away from the paperback release of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s cult hit, the steampunk epic Aurorarama. Published in hardcover in the fall of 2010, Aurorarama is the first volume in “The Mysteries of New Venice” trilogy. The second installment, Luminous Chaos, publishes…
In a New York Daily News profile, artisanal pencil sharpener, comedian, and Melville House author David Rees describes how he got into the business. Hint: It had nothing to do with George Bush no longer being president and suddenly making Rees’ hilarious, anti-Bush Get Your…