Melville House Publishing
Founded | 2001 |
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Founder | Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Brooklyn, New York |
Distribution | Penguin Random House Publisher Services (US) Turnaround Publisher Services (UK)[1] |
Publication types | Books |
Imprints | Stop Smiling |
Official website | www |
Melville House Publishing is an American independent
History
The company was founded by husband-and-wife team of Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians.
In 2007, they were named by the
In 2008 Melville House moved to Dumbo, Brooklyn, to a location that includes a bookstore with their offices. The opening was on January 19, 2008.[11] In 2013, Melville House started a sister company in the United Kingdom, Melville House UK.[12]
Melville House publishes books in several series. These include the Art of the Novella Series, which The Atlantic called an "ongoing celebration of the form", and which includes classics by Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Virginia Woolf.[3] The Neversink Library, "a collection of lost, forgotten, and 'foolishly ignored' books from around the world".[3][13] The Last Interview series, which collects interviews with prominent writers, including the last interviews given before their deaths, has included Ernest Hemingway, Philip K. Dick and Nora Ephron.[14][15]
In 2014, it published the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture in just 19 days;[6] and later that year, an edition of the Pope Francis' Laudato si', an encyclical on climate change, soon after the Pope released it. The speed of publications has been called "extraordinary" for the industry.[5][4] In 2016, Melville House published The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston.[7] Melville used a process they call "crashing the book" to work around the clock and bring the book out in 27 days.[7][4]
References
- ^ "Our publishers". Turnaround Publisher Services. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
- ^ a b Lewis Beale (July 28, 2002). "NEW JERSEY & CO.; When Publish or Perish Is More Than Just Words". The New York Times. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
- ^ a b c John Fassler (April 24, 2012). "The Return of the Novella, the Original #Longread". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Tyler Woods (April 4, 2017). "This Indie Publisher Is Throwing the Books at Trump". TheBridge. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
- ^ ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
Publishing the Torture Report cemented their reputation as a self-described 'activist publishing company.'
- ^ a b Alexandra Schwartz (December 19, 2014). "Turning the Torture Report Into a Book". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
works of political reportage with a leftist streak
- ^ a b c John Maher (September 2, 2016). "The Making of 'The Making of Donald Trump'". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ^ "MELVILLE HOUSE CO-PUBLISHERS DENNIS LOY JOHNSON AND VALERIE MERIANS ARE NAMED 2007 MIRIAM BASS AWARD WINNERS" Archived October 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Association of American Publishers press release dated February 6, 2007. Accessed October 24, 2007.
- ^ "RATTLING THE CAGE AT THE AAP ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR THE LARGE AND LESS THAN LARGE", ForeWord (magazine), March 14, 2007. Accessed October 24, 2007. "One of the most moving moments of the week came when Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians, co-publishers of Hoboken, NJ based Melville House received the Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing at the opening of the conference."
- ^ "50 Books / 50 Covers competition". AIGA. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
- ^ "Melville House moved to Dumbo, Brooklyn". January 22, 2008. Archived from the original on February 1, 2008.
- ^ Philip Jones (March 25, 2013). "Some people never learn: Johnson & Merians start a new company ... Melville House UK » MobyLives". Melville House Books. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
- ^ Melville House Publishing (September 26, 2016). "Neversink Library Page". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
- ^ Maureen Corrigan (January 11, 2016). "Revisiting The 'Last Interview' Of Ernest Hemingway, Philip K. Dick And Nora Ephron". NPR. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ^ Melville House Publishing (26 September 2016). "Last Interview Series Page". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved September 26, 2016.