Books from Melville House
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May Day
By F. Scott Fitzgerald" Although F.Scott Fitzgerald is known for the kind of subtle, polished social commentary found in his masterpiece The Great Gatsby, his little-known novella May Day is unique in that it is the most raw, directly political commentary he ...
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Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
By Lou ReedI've got anew album out right now and there'sa song called “Harry's Circumcision,” which you can take in a couple ofways. And one of the ways is that it's funny.I think Iget classified in the black humour section .
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GB84: A Novel
By David PeaceThe Jew picks up a Get Well Soon card from Richard Clarke's bedside table. The Jew shows itto the press.The Jewreads italoud: ' “All the best to a very brave man who deserves a medal and all the miners' thanks.
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The Destruction of Hillary Clinton
By Susan BordoThese black mothers disputed the idea that Clinton was using them for political purposes, citing Clinton's longstanding work with Civil Rights activist and Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman, as well as other black ...
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Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power - Updated and Revised: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing
By Amy Sonnie, James TracyKENSINGTON NIZATIOR TREAD ON ME DRGANI October 4th Organization protesting a Philadelphia city council bill allowing a Model Cities housing site to be used as a truck - loading terminal , Kensington , 1971 . ( Photo by H. Earle Shull ...
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Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
By Amy Sonnie, James Tracy"It's not only Blacks & college Mids who to turnithings. (Photo by H. Earle Shull Jr., courtesy of Temple University, Urban Archives McDowell Collection) Final issue of JOIN newspaper, The Firing line, during Peggy.
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Future Days: Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary New Music
By David StubbsThe writer Frances Morgan was part of a scene of groups, including.They Came from the Stars (ISaw Them), Now and, as occasional stand-in, Radio 9, who followed a template set down by Stereolab, one involving cheap analogue synths simply ...
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Maranoia: Weed, Greed, and the End of California
By David RoseCalifornia’s famed pot farmers, it seems, are not the peaceful, laid-back hippies you might imagine. From the Hardcover edition.
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Authoritarian Nightmare: The Ongoing Threat of Trump's Followers
By John Dean, Bob AltemeyerHe told Lesley Stahl he did not like their methodology but did not deny they were part of the operation . But the Cambridge Analytica guys had the heavy - duty data , and maybe most telling is when Cambridge Analytica closed ...
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Farewell Speeches
By Barack Obama, Michelle ObamaF A R E W E L L S P E E C H E S B A R A C K & M I C H E L LE O B A M A FAREWELL SPEECHES Melville House Publishing 46 John Street Brooklyn, NY. 4 MELVILLE HOUSE ERCIKLYM = LCIMDIF,
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
By Martin Luther King, Jr.Martin Luther King, Jr. had great success in helping to end segregation and the disenfranchisement of African-Americans.
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Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview And Other Conversations
By Christopher Hitchens"From Hitchens's earliest interviews to his final published interview with Richard Dawkins just before his death, this collection covers the brilliant career of Christopher Hitchens and tackles everything from atheism, his controversial ...
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In Every Moment We Are Still Alive
By Tom MalmquistHe plugs in a cigarette and stands up with his cryptic smile, the one that's always made me want to crawl into his arms, and in his laboured English he quotes one of Tom T. Hall's songs: Friends are hard to find when they discover that ...
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The Canal
By Lee RourkeDe Beauvoir Road was quiet, except for the distant furore of a group of lads walking down Englefield Road, up ahead in the direction of Kingsland Road. It was a comforting racket, it made me feel warm and happy.
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Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning
By Alan MaimonAs one of the speakers at the service noted , “ Thomas Wolfe said you can't go home again . James Still said you can never leave home . ” 5 In the mid - 1920s , the coal mining industry employed more than 800,000 workers nationwide ...
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Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning
By Alan MaimonAn intimate portrait of Appalachia, East Kentucky, an area still beset by the worst poverty in the US, tracing how events at the start of the new millennium continue to impact life in the region and the soul of the nation as a whole.
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The Bloodless Boy
By Robert J. LloydThe Bloodless Boy is an absorbing literary thriller that introduces two new indelible heroes to historical crime fiction.
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It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics
By David M. FarisConsider this: When Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court in 1993, she was confirmed 96–3. Just twentythree years later, Garland, a man clearly to Ginsburg's right, couldn't even get a hearing.
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Viva la Pizza!: The Art of the Pizza Box
By Scott WienerWhere does all this art come from? Scott Wiener has been collecting and cataloging pizza boxes for more than five years. In Viva la Pizza!
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David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
By David Foster WallaceIn addition to Wallace’s last interview, the volume features a conversation with Dave Eggers, a revealing Q&A with the magazine of his alma mater Amherst, his famous Salon interview with Laura Miller following the publication of Infinite ...