Spring and Summer2013

MELVILLE HOUSE DEBT THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS DAVID GRAEBER

The acclaimed international bestseller, now in paperback: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt

Acclaimed anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom, not to mention centuries of accepted economic theory: He shows that for 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. Ever since, arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. Indeed, the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive from ancient and nearly forgotten debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. Without knowing it, Graeber NOW AVAILABLE writes, we are still fighting these battles today. 978-1-61219-129-4 Key points and quotes $22.00 / $22.00 CAN. + ECONOMICS / HISTORY Winner of 2012 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing PAPERBACK + Winner of 2012 Gregory Bateson book prize, awarded by the Society for 5 3 544 PAGES, 5 ⁄8" × 8 ⁄8" Cultural Anthropology EBOOK: 978-1-61219-098-3 + Hardcover has sold more than 75,000 copies internationally WORLD

Marketing and publicity Praise for Debt: • “An alternate history of the rise of money and markets, a sprawling, erudite, Radio tour: national & regional provocative work.” —Bloomberg Businessweek public radio, news shows, business/ • “David Graeber’s Debt is like no book I have ever read, a meditation on money, finance shows debt, gifts, and religion. . . It is graceful, lucid, free of jargon and crammed full of Op-ed campaign connections and revelations that will delight the curious reader. . . . It will change Targeting religious media your life.” —Peter Carey, author of Parrot and Olivier in America Jewish-interest magazines to • “One of the year’s most influential books.” —Paul Mason, The Guardian highlight biblical/historical • “Written in a brash, engaging style, the book is a philosophical inquiry into the narrative of the book nature of debt—where it came from and how it evolved.” Media targeted on reaching readers of —Thomas Meaney,The New York Times Book Review history, particularly ancient history Pitching to paperback columns in About the author daily newspapers DAVID GRAEBER teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He Nytimes.com (display ads) is the author of Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value, Lost People: Magic and the Advertising in the Chronicle of Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Possibilities: Higher Education Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire, and Direct Action: An Ethnography. He has written for Harper’s, The Nation, The Baffler, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New Left Review. In the summer of 2011, he was one of the original organizers of Occupy Wall Street, and he coined its infamous slogan: “We are the 99 percent.”

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MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 3 NEW FINNISH GRAMMAR A NOVEL DIEGO MARANI Translated by Judith Landry

With echoes of The English Patient and Out Stealing Horses, this moving tale of a man who loses not only his identity but his memory of speech has become a surprise bestseller and critical favorite in the UK

Trieste, 1943: A badly wounded man in a Finnish navy uniform is found on the quay. He bears no identification other than the words “Sampo Karjalainen” stitched into the collar of his jacket. And when the man regains consciousness he has lost his memory and cannot even remember what language he speaks. But the Finnish doctor who found him believes that the man is a fellow countryman, and struggles to teach him his own language before being finally forced to send the still-fragile man home to Helsinki . . . where the Nazis and Russians are about to stage one of World War II’s most pitched battles, and where “Sampo” hopes ON SALE: to find his identity—before it’s too late. JANUARY 29 A sweeping saga of lost identity, memory, love and war, as well as a celebration 978-1-61219-285-7 of the fiendishly difficult and beautiful Finnish language, from one of Italy’s most $15.95 / $15.95 CAN. acclaimed new writers. LITERARY FICTION PAPERBACK Key points and quotes 1 1 208 PAGES, 5 ⁄2" × 8 ⁄4" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-286-4 + First U.S. publication, from a highly acclaimed Italian author NORTH AMERICA + First published in English by a tiny British press (Dedalus), the book became a surprise hit thanks to the handselling efforts of numerous indie booksellers Marketing and publicity who fell in love with it, and thanks to unanimous and lavish raves from leading publications First of three novels by Marani to be published by Melville House + Named “Book of the Year” by The Financial Times and The Spectator + Will appeal to anyone who has struggled to learn a new language Major critical hit in the UK: will use UK reviews to secure US feature coverage + Like The English Patientand Out Stealing Horses, this is also a WWII story, with the attendant love story, Nazis, divided loyalties—it’s a novel that can be enjoyed Large ARC campaign, to booksellers and review sections on many levels and for many reasons + New Finnish Grammar won four prestigious Italian book prizes: The Premio Email blasts to librarians and MFA programs Grinzane Cavour, the Premio Ostia Mare, the Premio Giuseppe Desi, and it was shortlisted for the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Posters and shelf-talkers available Author Q&A for press kit Praise for New Finnish Grammar: • “I can’t remember when I read a more extraordinary novel, or when I was last so strongly tempted to use the word ‘genius’ of its author. . . Read it and brace yourself for something special.” —Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian

About the author DIEGO MARANI was born in Ferrara in 1959. He works as a linguist for the European Union in Brussels. The author of six novels, he writes a weekly column for a Swiss newspaper in Europanto, a language he invented. His novels The Last of the Vostyachs and Las Adventures Des Inspector Cabillot are forthcoming from Melville House.

JUDITH LANDRY is a translator of fiction French and Italian. Her translation of New Finnish Grammar has been awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

4 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM Praise from the UK for New Finnish Grammar

“It was, naturally, the flatness of the title that attracted me: it bespoke, in its quiet confidence, a deep, rich and eventful inner life. . . Deep and rich, did I say? That isn’t the half of it. I can’t remember when I read a more extraordinary novel, or when I was last so strongly tempted to use the word “genius” of its author.” —Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian

“Marani’s miraculous novel is profound, moving, elusive and tragic.” —Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times’ Books of the Year

“Don’t be put off by the unwelcoming title: this is an extraordinary book, as good as Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and with a similar mystery at its heart.” —The Spectator’s Books of the Year

“We soon forget we are reading an English translation of an Italian novel. Sheer narrative vim is one reason for this. . .What gives New Finnish Grammar its true interest, however, is its evocation of a place and language foreign to the author yet, to all appearances, intimately familiar.” —The Times Literary Supplement

“A subtle exploration of how language shapes our sense of ourselves and the world. Fascinating.” —The Financial Times

“New Finnish Grammar has a thoroughly European sensibility: intellectual, melancholy, mysterious, imbued with a sense of tragedy and history.” —The Independent on Sunday

“A thoughtful, idiosyncratic book . . . entirely to be applauded.” —The Literary Review

“I know that it is a book that I will be thrusting into people’s hands for years to come urging them to buy it, read it and spread the word. It is the least that I can do for the pleasure that it has given me.” —Euan Hirst, bookseller, Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford

“This book is full of riches: a landscape so solidly created one can hear the ice crack, a moving examination of what makes a human being, and a restless brooding over the ideas of memory, belonging and identity. It is written in mirror-smooth prose and superbly translated.” —The Warwick Review

“There is nothing easy and nothing obvious aboutNew Finnish Grammar, a translated book about language, a story narrated by a man without an identity or a voice— a tremendously difficult thing to achieve, and here pulled off admirably.” —Daniel Hahn, Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation

“A highly original, uniquely imagined work.” —Marina Warner, judge for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 5 MARANOIA WEED, GREED, AND THE END OF CALIFORNIA DAVID ROSE

In the spirit of Hunter Thompson’s Hell’s Angels or Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, a first-person account of a booming California business: weed

When Californians voted on Proposition 19—the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act—in November 2010, many expected the state to become the first to fully legalize a Schedule I drug. After all, the pro-legalization movement had huge popular support, medical marijuana was already legal, and, well, pot was the state’s biggest agricultural money-maker. Tax revenues would be enormous, the legal system relieved, new jobs created—it seemed like a no-brainer. But Prop 19 was not only defeated, it was crushed, and the opposition was driven not by Arnold Schwarzenegger or Mothers Against Drunk Driving—but by the marijuana growers themselves, who launched a major campaign to keep their product ON SALE: illegal. APRIL 2 Why? To find out, journalist David Rose went beyond the Redwood Curtain of Northern 978-1-61219-186-7 California—seat of the clandestine pot-farming industry and the country’s largest $24.95 / $24.95 CAN. guerilla economy—and what he discovered was not only eye-opening, but, at times, CURRENT EVENTS heart-breaking and, at other times, terrifying. California’s famed pot farmers, it seems, HARDCOVER 3 1 are not the peaceful, laid-back hippies you might imagine. 256 PAGES, 5 ⁄4" × 8 ⁄2" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-187-4 WORLD Key points and quotes + Marketing and publicity David Rose is author of two bestselling books, and has already been celebrated in the US and UK for his work with the London Review of Books. National print, TV, and radio campaign + The author is experienced at—and excellent on—radio and TV and has a National author tour unique voice. + Deep sources in the industry: Rose has gained the confidence of some of Author has previously been profiled by GQ, the New York Times, and California’s biggest growers and traffickers. He has interviewed many of the key appeared on national NPR show players in the industry and visited dozens of major grow sites. Colorado and Washington will + Tackles both the local and the national: Like a recent bestseller on the effects of the vote on marijuana legalization in meth business on the midwest (Methland by Nick Reding), Rose’s book addresses a November 2012 big issue with a local, accessible narrative.

About the author DAVID ROSE is the former president of the London Review of Books. In 1998 he started the magazine’s personal ads, one of the magazine’s most popular features. His ads were collected in two bestselling books, which he edited: They Call Me Naughty Lola: Personal Ads from the London Review of Books and Sexually, I’m More of a Switzerland: More Personal Ads from the London Review of Books.

6 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM A SHORT HISTORY OF NUCLEAR FOLLY MAD SCIENTISTS, DITHERING NAZIS, LOST NUKES, AND CATASTROPHIC COVER-UPS RUDOLPH HERZOG

In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe.

Rudolph Herzog, the acclaimed author of Dead Funny, presents a devastating account of history’s most irresponsible uses of nuclear technology. From the rarely discussed nightmare of “Broken Arrows” (40 nuclear weapons lost during the Cold War) to “Operation Plowshare” (a proposal to use nuclear bombs for large engineering projects, such as a the construction of a second Panama Canal using 300 H-Bombs) . . . Herzog focuses in on long-forgotten nuclear projects that nearly led to disaster. Digging deep into archives, interviewing dozens of previously censored scientists, ON SALE: and including dozens of photos, Herzog also explores the “accidental” drop of a APRIL 23 Nagasaki-type bomb on a train conductor’s home, the implanting of plutonium into patients’ hearts, and the invention of wild tactical nukes, including weapons designed 978-1-61219-173-7 to kill enemy astronauts. $26.00 / $26.00 CAN. Told in a riveting narrative voice, Herzog—the son of filmmaker Werner Herzog HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE HARDCOVER and the grandson of Nazis—also draws on childhood memories of the final period 3 3 304 PAGES, 5 ⁄4" × 8 ⁄4" of the Cold War in Germany, the country once seen as the nuclear battleground for EBOOK: 978-1-61219-174-4 NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and discusses evidence that Nazi scientists knew how to WORLD make atomic weaponry . . . and chose not to. An unprecedented people’s history.

Marketing and publicity Key points and quotes National print and radio campaign + Told in an accessible, episodic style Author tour: New York, LA, San + Including 25 photos and other illustrations Francisco + Based on archival material: book will likely generate a new round of news Video trailer stories on nuclear policy

Praise for A Short History of Nuclear Folly: • “Meticulously researched and thrillingly told—reading this is as informative as it is spine-chillingly entertaining.” —Die Zeit ALSO AVAILABLE: DEAD FUNNY Praise for Dead Funny: 978-1-61219-130-0 • “Strikingly original historical research sets it apart.” —Time Out New York • “Subtle but scathing.” —The New Republic • “A concise, compelling book” —The Independent(UK) • “Herzog, the son of the film-maker Werner Herzog, shares his father’s curious and mordant wit.” —The Financial Times

About the author and translator RUDOLPH HERZOG is the author of Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler’s Germany. His documentary on humor in the Third Reich, Laughing With Hitler, scored top audience ratings on German Channel 1 and was also broadcast on the BBC. He is the son of the celebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog. Author website: rudolph-herzog.de.

JEFFERSON CHASE is one of the foremost translators of German history.

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 7 THE DUKE’S TABLE THE COMPLETE BOOK OF VEGETARIAN ITALIAN COOKING ENRICO ALLIATA, THE DUKE OF SALAPARUTA Introduction by Antony Shugaar; Illustrations by Olimpia Zagnoli

A major re-discovery: an authentic and complete guide to vegetarian Italian cuisine . . .

First published in 1930, The Duke’s Table is a massive compendium of vegetarian recipes from across Italy. The brainchild of Enrico Alliata, the Duke of Salaparuta, a utopian gourmand and winemaker, the book contains 1,030 recipes—the result of decades of work by Alliata to systematically re-imagine classic Italian dishes without using meat. The result is a ON SALE: timeless encyclopedic reference work for vegetarians. MARCH 26 Alliata, who spoke out against the “dietary orthodoxy of the day,” was a vocal advocate for a vegetarian diet, which he believed, much in advance of early dietitians, 978-1-61219-139-3 $40.00 / $40.00 CAN. led to a longer, healthier life. Much like The Silver Spoon (first published in Italy in 1950, and in the U.S. in 2005), the book is unique in its scope and scale: its recipes are COOKBOOK HARDCOVER imaginative, playful and healthy—and all designed for family-style serving. 1 352 PAGES, 8" × 9 ⁄2" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-140-9 Key points and quotes WORLD + Though the book dates from 1930, all recipes are being tested for and adapted to Marketing and publicity the modern kitchen + Vegetarian cookbook market is growing. ThinkVegan Cupcakes (100,000 copies Publicity campaign by YC Media, sold) or Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian (200,000 copies sold.) the company that launched The Silver Spoon + An absolutely stunning package featuring illustrations by Olimpia Zagnoli, known for her work for the New York Times and the New Yorker. Deco design also Author has an amazing life story, which should feed feature interest including custom type, two-color text, and striking period patterns ARCs in November • “Even though man can draw all he needs in the way of nourishment from a mere Events in NYC, in association with the handful of seeds and fruit, he must not give up a proper meal.” —Enrico Alliata Italian Trade Commission About the author ENRICO ALLIATA, THE DUKE OF SALAPARUTA, was born in Sicily in 1879. He studied music at the Conservatory of Milan but gave it up to study agriculture and run the family wine business. In 1824, Enrico’s grandfather, Giuseppe Alliata (“Prince of Villafranca, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Grandee of Spain, and Duke of Salaparuta”) founded the Corvo wine company to produce gifts for diplomats, ambassadors, princes, and noble ladies. With the decline of the aristocracy and the reduced importance of his title, Enrico transformed his family heritage into a successful international business. Among many interests, Enrico was a dedicated student of diet and health. He advocated a vegetarian diet, which he believed could prolong human life to 130 years and which he called “absolutely regenerative.” To the Duke, however, vegetarianism was no impediment to a good meal: he often hosted six-course vegetarian feasts, which he believed to be—along with the house wine—a “solution to human happiness.”

8 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM ANTIPASTI ED INSALATE

Crostini indicates small rounds of sliced (and 3. sometimes toasted) bread, spread with a vari- CROSTINI F ORTI ety of flavorings (the original and more refined version of American garlic bread). slices with a strong-flavored mustard.

4. BOLI DI F ORMAGGIO 1. With a fork, crush hard-boiled egg yolks. Add grated parmesan cheese - CROSTINI DI T ARTUFI O DI FUNGHI tity of egg white to be able to form ½ inch balls; Cream butter together with: dip these into boiling water for a few seconds, salt then drain and let cool. Serve on cucumber fresh parsley slices garnished with mayonnaise (see recipes a few drops of lemon juice 677 to 679). Slice a baguette in ½ inch slices, then spread with the butter and sprinkle with black truffles or chopped fresh mushrooms. 5. CROSTINI DI F ORMAGGIO INDIAVOLATI Melt 2 oz butter. 2. Add equal quantities of: CROSTINI D ’UOVO Parmesan cheese Slice a baguette and spread the slices with but- cayenne pepper ter. Chop hard-boiled eggs on a plate and press mustard (to taste) the buttered slices into the egg. Spread this mixture on baguette slices.

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725. oven and serve in the oven dish. Before serving Turn out onto a plate, pour on some brandy, and 730. Neapolitan cake BODINO AMBRATO add a spoonful of brandy and light. - TORTA NAPOLETANA RIPIENA Ingredients: Make a shortcrust pastry using: 1 lb boiled carrots B/c lb flour 5 oz crumbled dry cookies 727. English Christmas pudding 4 oz sugar 6 oz butter BODINO DI NATALE INGLESE 728. Fruit tart 4 oz butter 5 oz dried currants In a heatproof ceramic or earthenware bowl place: TORTA DI FRUTTA 2 egg yolks 5 oz raisins 1 lb flour Make some shortcrust pastry (see recipes 1 egg white 5 oz sugar B⁄e lb sugar 546–547), and roll out thinly to cover a buttered Separately, prepare a cream with: nutmeg 10 oz raisins pie pan. Pierce the crust to prevent blisters from 1 pint milk 2 crushed cloves 7 oz dried currants forming. Prepare the fruit as follows. Use pitted 2 tbsp starch a pinch of salt 1 cup butter whole apricots, peaches, and cherries. Place 4 oz sugar 2 eggs 6 oz bread crumbs the whole pears upright, complete with stems, but 3 egg yolks enough milk to make a thick paste 6 oz candied lemon peel remove the cores. The strawberries and rasp- the grated peel of B/c orange or lemon Cook in a greased mold for 3 hours over boiling 4 B/c oz orange marmalade berries should also be whole, as are the grapes Add: water and serve with grape syrup or other hot 2 oz almonds and the mandarin orange segments. Garnish 4 oz dried currents or sultanas syrup. grated lemon the tart as richly as possible, sprinkle with sugar, 2 oz pine nuts juice of one lemon and bake in the oven. Mix well. Roll out 2 sheets of pastry. Put one 3 eggs in a buttered cake tin and cover with the above 726. enough vintage wine to dampen mixture. Seal with the other pastry sheet, pressing BODINO DI PANE E BURRO Remove the raisin seeds and peel the almonds 729. the edges together and decorating with any left Ingredients: in hot water. Crush and chop the almonds as TORTA DI MERENGA over bits. Brush the top with egg yolk and bake. 1 lb sliced bread - Make some shortcrust pastry (see recipes 546– Sprinkle with sugar when cold. 3 pints milk ange peel. Mix all the ingredients together in the 547) and also some vanilla cream (recipe 873), 10 oz confectioner’s sugar bowl, cover with a cloth and a lid, and let stand using about 2 cups milk. 8 oz dried currants overnight. Next morning place the bowl in a pan Take 6 oz sponge cake and cut ¼ inch 731. Pine nut cake grated peel of 2 lemons or vanilla extract of boiling water which must be covered. Boil for thick. Line a pie pan with a sheet of pastry. On TORTA PIGNOLATA 5 oz butter 8 hours, taking care to add water as it evaporates. this spread half the slices of sponge cake, squeeze Ingredients: 5 eggs some lemon juice and cover. Form another layer 1 pint milk Work the egg yolks in the sugar and add the milk with the remaining sponge cake, sprinkling with 4 oz semolino slowly, stirring continuously. In an ovenproof dish lemon juice. Whip 3 egg whites 2 oz sugar spread a layer of thinly sliced bread spread with add confectioner’s sugar, then cover the top of 2 oz pine nuts butter. Scatter the currants and grated lemon peel, the cake. Bake in the oven and as soon as the me- 1 oz butter and add another layer of bread, followed by cur- ringue begins to harden, cover with oven paper 2 eggs to prevent it from burning during the remaining shortcrust pastry as needed cover with the milk and egg mixture. Bake in the cooking time. Serve cold. Cook the semolino in the milk, and when done

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253. Macaroni timballo with Gruyère (keep 1 tbsp Gruyère to spread on the raw eggs (calculate 3 eggs for every pound of bottom of the baking dish). Pour the mixture into purée). Add ½-inch cubes of mozzarella and TIMBALLO DI MA CCHERONI A LLA a buttered mold, place in a pan of water and cook pour the mixture into individual molds which BESCIAMELLA F INANZIATA have been buttered and sprinkled with grated Ingredients: sides of the mold with a knife and turn out on a cheese. Place in the oven for about 15 minutes 4 eggs serving platter, covering with the remaining spin- and turn out onto a serving plate. 12 shelled and crushed walnuts ach sauce. 2 oz butter 5 oz Parmesan cheese 257. Egg timballo ‘alla molinara’ 2 truffles 255. Semolino timballo TIMBALLO DI SEM OLINO FARCITO 1 lb macaroni TIMBALLO D’UOVA ALLA MO LINARA Boil the macaroni al dente, drain and put aside. Ingredients: Into a saucepan, pour: 3 B/c cups milk a pint of milk 9 oz semolino a pinch of salt - 4 oz butter mesan and place in a mold or a baking dish lined 4 oz Parmesan cheese 5 oz semola with pastry crust (see recipe 548). Put in a hot 4 eggs dish, until it is wound around itself like a shell. Stir continually. When it has thickened, remove oven for 15–20 minutes, then turn out on a serv- Cook the semolino in milk, stirring continually Continue with other pieces of pasta until the 8 egg whites ing dish and serve with béchamel (see recipe sides of the dish are lined with the rolled pasta. 658) on the side. to cool. While still lukewarm, add the eggs and Cut the remaining noodles in pieces and put in a Add: Parmesan, stirring briskly. Pour half of the semo- saucepan, adding the sauce prepared as follows: in the egg yolks lino mixture in a baking dish or mold (which has a saucepan mix: 3 oz Parmesan cheese 254. been buttered and spread with bread crumbs). 1 tbsp of melted butter Green timballo with Pour into a baking dish which has been buttered stuffing 1 tbsp of flour and sprinkled with grated Gruyère cheese. TIMBALLO VERDE AL G RUVIERA a cup of good broth (recipes 43 to 51) or, if Place this in a larger dish with two or three inches Ingredients: with the rest of the semolino and bake in a hot not available, a cup of salted water oven. a spoon of caramel sauce (see recipes 2 lb spinach plate to serve. 18 oz fidellini pasta (thin noodle-like strips) 897–898) 4 eggs Add chopped mushrooms and allow to thicken 3 oz butter 256. Glutton’s timballo 258. 5 oz Gruyère cheese TIMBALLETTE GOL OSETTE Timballo lined with add a few mock eggs (recipe 471). Pour this 1 pint milk Make: macaroni shells over the pasta in the saucepan, sprinkle with Par- Boil the spinach and put through a food mill, then a pea purée (recipe 63) TIMBALLO A CHIO CCIOLA mesan cheese and crushed shelled walnuts. mix with béchamel (recipes 657–658). Cook the a potato purée (recipe 74) Cook wide pasta strips as in recipe 233, then When the mixture has condensed, pour into the pasta, drain and stir in the 4 beaten eggs, half the Make the purées thicker than those called for in butter a baking dish. After draining the pasta, take center of the baking dish and cover with a few spinach and béchamel mixture and the grated the recipes, then combine the two with beaten one noodle and roll it across the bottom of the unseasoned noodle strips you will have set aside;

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MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 9 LA BOUTIQUE OBSCURE 124 DREAMS GEORGES PEREC Translated by Daniel Levin Becker

The beguiling dream diary of Georges Perec, written in deceptively simple prose but nonetheless capturing the origins of the author’s charming quirkiness—and the beginnings of some of his most brilliant books

As you might expect, this never-before-translated work by beloved French stylist Georges Perec—written between 1968–1972, when he wrote his most well known works—is not at all like a typical dream journal, hazy or psychoanalytic. Rather, Perec revels in the challenge of translating his dreams directly into prose and revealing how he might turn them into a book. And indeed, these diaries were written between 1968–1972, the time when Perec wrote his most well-known books, including A Void and Life: A User’s Manual, and readers will recognize their origins here—such as in his dream about a man not ON SALE: allowed to use the letter “e.” FEBRUARY 19 But more than being essential reading for the understanding of the acclaimed 978-1-61219-175-1 author, readers will enjoy the book for what it is: Perec at his best. He rises so inspiringly $18.95 / $18.95 CAN. to the challenge of making useful sense out of what at first seems nonsensical that the LITERARY COLLECTIONS book becomes, in the end, both a joy to read and an important document of the PAPERBACK changes in fiction in the twentieth century. 1 1 224 PAGES, 5 ⁄2" × 7 ⁄2" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-176-8 WORLD Key points and quotes + First ever English translation. Marketing and publicity + Will appeal to fans of Perec’s popular books A Void and Life: A User’s Manual + Will appeal those interested in both psychology and modern literary movements. Translator to do media (he is a regular guest on KQED in SF) for the book + Growing interest in Oulipo literary movement, of which Perec was a founder. + Translated by the youngest member of Oulipo. National media campaign Promo at AWP Praise for Georges Perec: Events: San Francisco • “One of the most singular literary personalities in the world, a writer who resembled absolutely no one else.’’ —Italo Calvino ARCs to booksellers • “The genius of Perec [is] to marry a deeply humane melancholy with dazzling formal experiments.” —The Guardian • “For as long as people write by his rules, or read his work anew, his contribution to literature and to life will remain loving and vital.” —The Telegraph

About the author GEORGES PEREC (1936–1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentary maker and essayist. In death he remains a member of Oulipo, the workshop of “potential literature.” He is most famous for the novels Life: A User’s Manual and A Void.

Translator DANIEL LEVIN BECKER (b. 1984) is the youngest member of Oulipo, and only the second American to ever be so honored. He is a writer, translator and music critic, and reviews editor of The Believer. He is the author of Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature (Harvard 2012).

10 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM EXODUS A NOVEL LARS IYER

A wickedly funny and satisfyingly highbrow black comedy about the collapse of Western academic institutions under the weight of neoliberal economics and crushing, widespread idiocy

Lars and W., the two preposterous philosophical anti-heroes of Spurious and Dogma— called “Uproarious” by the New York Times Book Review—return and face a political, intellectual, and economic landscape in a state of total ruination. With philosophy professors being moved to badminton departments and gin in short supply—although not short enough—the two hapless intellectuals embark on a relentless mission. Well, several relentless missions. For one, they must help gear a guerilla philosophy movement—conducted outside the academy, perhaps under bridges—that will save the study of philosophy after the long, miserable decades of intellectual desert known as the early 21st-century. ON SALE: For another, they must save themselves, perhaps by learning to play badminton JANUARY 29 after all. Gin isn’t free, you know. 978-1-61219-182-9 $15.95 / $15.95 CAN. Key points and quotes LITERARY FICTION + Readers don’t need to have read the previous two novels in the series to enjoy this PAPERBACK 1 1 one—they are not sequential 272 PAGES, 5 ⁄2" × 7 ⁄2" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-183-6 + The series has received rave reviews in nearly all major literary reviews and WORLD publications including: The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, Library Marketing and publicity Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian (UK), The Spectator, and Events in New York, Boston, DC, The Believer. and London +The series has become a web sensation, with extensive coverage from all the best National review campaign, online literary reviews and blogs. focusing on press for all three + Spurious won 3:AM’s “Best novel of 2011” was a finalist forThe Guardian’s Not-the- books in the trilogy Booker Award, and was shortlisted for The Believer book award. Op-ed campaign by Iyer + The books have developed a passionate following among philosophy and literature Online media campaign: videos, graduates. blog posts, etc + Author will tour extensively in the UK and US at universities and bookstores. Praise for Spurious and Exodus: • “It’s wonderful. I’d recommend the book for its insults alone.” ALSO AVAILABLE: —Sam Jordison, The Guardian SPURIOUS • “I’m still laughing, and it’s days later.” 978-1-935554-28-8 —Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times DOGMA • “Fearsomely funny.” 978-1-61219-046-4 —Carolyn See, The Washington Post

About the author LARS IYER is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of two books on Blanchot (Blanchot’s Communism: Art, Philosophy, Politics and Blanchot’s Vigilance: Phenomenology, Literature, Ethics) and the novels Spurious and Dogma. He writes at his blog Spurious, and is also a contributor to Britain’s leading literary blog, Ready, Steady, Book. His literary manifesto, “Nude in Your Hot Tub, Facing the Abyss” appeared in Post Road and The White Review.

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 11 THE ACCIDENTAL PALLBEARER AN ELIOT CONTE MYSTERY FRANK LENTRICCHIA

Introducing a gritty detective series that Don DeLillo calls “entertainment of a high order—funny, fast-moving and hot-blooded,” from the writer that the New York Times famously dubbed “The Dirty Harry of literary criticism”

Washed-up private investigator Eliot Conte would rather be teaching American literature and listening to opera than taking pictures of cheating spouses in flagrante delicto. But he flamed out as an academic when he hung the Provost of UCLA out a window, and he had to come home—to bleak Utica, New York, where his aging father, Silvio, is a political kingmaker with questionable associations, and his all-but-in- blood brother Antonio is the city’s first black Chief of Police. And now Antonio’s asking him for a favor—a favor that, to Eliot, doesn’t seem like the kind of thing a police chief should ask for . . . especially as lead after lead points back to the most sensational hit in local Mafia history. In a Utica marked by economic devastation and racial tensions, Eliot finds himself MELVILLE caught up in a cobweb of allegiances, grudges, and his own dark demons. Who is the INTERNATIONAL CRIME spider at the center of it all?

EARLY ON SALE: Key points and quotes DECEMBER 26 + The Accidental Pallbearer is the first book in a series of crime novels set in Utica, New York—a city struggling to cope with the economic setbacks and social 978-1-61219-171-3 $14.95 / $14.95 CAN. tensions of the early 21st century, and the author’s hometown + The author is a beloved, internationally acclaimed and extremely influential CRIME FICTION PAPERBACK professor of literature at Duke University 1 1 208 PAGES, 5 ⁄2" × 8 ⁄4" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-172-0 Praise for The Accidental Pallbearer: WORLD • “Frank Lentricchia’s new novel ranks as entertainment of a high order—funny, fast- moving and hot-blooded. It’s also the kind of novel that will appeal to readers who Marketing and publicity like their fiction to carry depth and range.” —Don DeLillo • “One of the most important Italian-American authors of our time. Bravissimo!” New York event with Don DeLillo —Lisa Scottoline North Carolina and East Coast author • “The Accidental Pallbearer is a brilliant piece of fiction, and a page turner to boot, tour (New York, Boston, DC, Upstate New York) able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the best writing in America today.” —Jay Parini Author will write features for crime magazines Praise for the author’s previous book, The Knifemenand Johnny Critelli: Author has previously been on NPR • “[Scenes that are] somber or funny or lose-your-lunch ugly. . . . The sabotage and and featured in the NY Times, will use sadness are real, and the language out of the streets and kitchens and bedrooms is these clips to pitch feature coverage obscenely authentic.” —Entertainment Weekly National media campaign • “Lentricchia has fashioned two short novels that display a rousing capacity for Pre-pub promotion at NoirCon and language and a gritty sense of the contemporary male mind.” —Publishers Weekly Bouchercon About the author FRANK LENTRICCHIA was raised in Utica, New York, by working class, first generation Italian-American parents. A chaired professor of literature at Duke University, he is the author of several highly acclaimed and often controversial critical studies; novels, including Johnny Critelli and The Knifemen; and a memoir, The Edge of Night.

12 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM THE END OF THE WORLD IN BRESLAU AN INSPECTOR EBERHARD MOCK INVESTIGATION MAREK KRAJEWSKI Translated by Danusia Stok

The second installment in the darkly intelligent series that The Independent called “As noir as they get”

1927, Breslau, Poland: Two elaborate and sadistic murders are discovered within days of each other. The body of an unknown musician, bound and gagged, is found behind a false wall in a shoemaker’s workshop. The victim had been sealed in alive. Elsewhere in the city, the horrifically mutilated body of a locksmith is found. Next to each victim is a torn-out calendar page, with the day of the death marked in blood. Nothing else seems to connect the cases. It falls to Criminal Councillor Eberhard Mock to solve the case, the mystery taking him still further into the Breslau underworld he knows only too well. MELVILLE Meanwhile, his hard-drinking nocturnal habits soon threaten his volatile marriage, INTERNATIONAL CRIME and prompt some strange behavior from his wife . . . and before long, Mock and his team will be investigating not only two of the grisliest murders in the city’s history, but ON SALE: the councillor’s own wife. APRIL 2 Key points and quotes 978-1-61219-177-5 + UK rights acquired by Christopher MacLehose, the editor responsible for $24.95 / $24.95 CAN. discovering Stieg Larsson. CRIME FICTION + Extremely well reviewed on UK publication. HARDCOVER + 304 PAGES, 6" × 9" Classic, stylish noir with a fascinating period setting—Europe on the brink EBOOK: 978-1-61219-178-2 of fascism. NORTH AMERICA Praise for Death in Breslau: Marketing and publicity • “As noir as they get. This complex and atmospheric thriller will find many fans.” —The Independent Pre-publication at Noircon 2012 and • “The city of Breslau is as much a character in this thriller as the parade of gothic Bouchercon 2012 loons that inhabit it . . . Addictive. . . .” —The Daily Telegraph ARCs to media • “A stylish, intelligent and original addition to the canon.” —The Financial Times Ads in crime media • “Krajewski carved out a new niche, Polish noir. And what a neat niche it is: sweaty with decadent aristocrats, fleshy with prostitutes and pimps and corpulent with ALSO AVAILABLE: corpses. . . a bawdy, black-humoured and a unique police tale.” —RTE Guide DEATH IN BRESLAU • “Rich and idiosyncratic . . . Atmosphere and piquant period detail saturate the 978-1-61219-164-5 pages, and push these books into the upper echelons of literary crime. Krajewski’s lacerating narrative performs the key function of the skilful novelist: providing an entre into a world far from our own.” —The Independent About the author MAREK KRAJEWSKI was born in Wroclaw (formerly Breslau), Poland, on September 4, 1966. He is the author of five novels in the Breslau series, which have been translated into fourteen languages and won Poland’s top literary and crime prizes. Krajewski is a former lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Wroclaw.

DANUSIA STOK is the translator of the previous title in the Inspector Mock series, Death in Breslau, as well as The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowsi.

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 13 THE BONE MAN A NOVEL WOLF HAAS Translated by Annie Janusch

The wry and rueful Columbo of Austria investigates a grisly murder at a beloved restaurant where snooty Viennese gourmands go to eat . . . fried chicken

At a wildly popular chicken shack in the Austrian countryside, a gruesome discovery is made in the pile of chicken bones waiting to be fed into the basement grinder: human bones. But when former-police detective now private eye Simon Brenner shows up to investigate, the woman who hired him has disappeared . . . Brenner likes chicken, though, so he stays, but finds no one will talk. And as he waits for the disappeared manager, there’s one ghastly find after another. Perhaps the most raucous book in the series, The Bone Manmanages to make fun of institutions from high cuisine to soccer while nonetheless building relentless suspense based in all-too-real social issues. Smart, tense, and funny, the book makes MELVILLE clear why Carl Hiaasen called Wolf Haas “the real deal.” INTERNATIONAL CRIME Key points and quotes ON SALE: + Follow-up to the first Brenner release, bookseller favoriteBrenner and God MARCH 5 + The writing is truly unique to the crime world—told in the first person but not in the perspective of the protagonist—it’s the voice of God, and God it seems is a wise guy. 978-1-61219-169-0 + The odd setting—Austria is dark and oddly exotic, and largely unknown to $14.95 / $14.95 CAN. US readers. CRIME FICTION PAPERBACK Praise for Wolf Haas and Brenner and God: 1 1 176 PAGES, 5 ⁄2" × 8 ⁄4" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-170-6 • “One of the cleverest—and most thoroughly enjoyable—mysteries that I’ve read in WORLD a long time. Wolf Haas is the real deal, and his arrival on the American book scene is long overdue.” —Carl Hiaasen, New York Times bestselling author of Skinny Dip Marketing and publicity • “Simon Brenner, the hero of Wolf Haas’ marvelous series of crime thrillers, is a wildly likable and original character—a delightful and unexpected hero to show Pre-publication promotion at NoirCon 2012 and Bouchercon 2012 up in this noble and enduring genre.” —Jonathan Demme, Oscar-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs Ads in crime media • “A must for crime fiction lovers with a sense of humor: In Simon Brenner, Wolf National media campaign Haas has created a protagonist so real and believable that I sometimes wanted to Haas will be coming to the U.S. in tap him on the shoulder and point him in the right direction!” April 2013 —Andrey Kurkov, author of Death and the Penguin Screenings of the German film • “A wry sense of humor. . . American readers will look forward to seeing more of adaptation of The Bone Man in NYC Simon Brenner.” —Publishers Weekly and Chicago (the movie set box office records in Germany and Austria) About the author ALSO AVAILABLE: WOLF HAAS was born in 1960 in the Austrian province of Salzburg. He is the BRENNER AND GOD author of seven books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, where each 978-1-61219-113-3 title has sold in the hundreds of thousands, and three volumes of which have been made into popular German language films.

Translator ANNIE JANUSCH is the translator Wolf Haas’ Brenner and God, and the Art of the Novella series edition of Heinrich von Kleist’s The Duel.

14 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM A VERY PROFITABLE WAR A NOVEL DIDIER DAENINCKX Translated by Sarah Martin

A rollicking noir set in Paris, during the anarchic days following World War One

In January 1920, in the aftermath of “the war to end all wars,” private detective Rene Griffon is hired to investigate the marital infidelities of the wife of a war hero. But what he uncovers is more than shabby behavior, and more than a sex scandal— what he uncovers is a scandal with devastating national implications. And as Griffon’s investigation plunges him into the murky world of blackmail, murder, anarchists, profiteering, and the repercussions of the war’s dark secrets, he discovers that the people who helped France win the war are being made to pay for the peace. Both homage to its American predecessors and critique of the Americanization of French—and global—culture, A Very Profitable War is a tense and evocative book that will linger long after its startling conclusion. MELVILLE INTERNATIONAL CRIME Key points and quotes + First US publication EARLY ON SALE: + Features a French protagonist modeled on the classic American PI, and in love DECEMBER 26 with American culture—set in the era of the American noir originals such as Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain 978-1-61219-184-3 $14.95 / $14.95 CAN. Praise for Murder in Memoriam: CRIME FICTION • “Murder in Memoriam is the kind of book that begins to restore one’s confidence PAPERBACK 1 1 in the detective story. Not only has Daeninckx produced a particularly intriguing 192 PAGES, 5 ⁄2" × 8 ⁄4" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-185-0 narrative, but he has found a way to give this narrative a satisfying significance . . . NORTH AMERICA A touch of moral vision and a pinch of righteous anger work wonders.” —Nick Hornby Marketing and publicity • “Didier Daeninckx is a novelist, magician and archaeologist prince. . . a frightening book.” —Jerome Charyn Pre-publication promotion at NoirCon 2012 and Bouchercon 2012 • “Serves as a tap on the shoulder—a necessary reminder that what is dead is not buried, and what is buried is, unfortunately, not dead.” —Derek Raymond Ads in Crime media National media campaign About the author DIDIER DAENINCKX is a prominent French journalist, essayist, and author ALSO AVAILABLE: of more than forty books including Murder in Memoriam, also available from MURDER IN MEMORIAM Melville House. 978-1-61219-146-1

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 15 MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY CHARLIE CHAPLIN

From rags to riches, to the McCarthy era and his eventual “reverse migration” to Europe: Charlie Chaplin’s remarkable autobiography about life as the world’s most famous man

As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of the glamorous vaudeville stars passing by his home, and from then on he never lost his ambition to become an actor. His subsequent film career as the Little Tramp, adored the world over, is the stuff of legend. But this frank autobiography shows another side: his childhood of grinding poverty in the south London slums, his early debut on the music hall stage, his lucky break in America, the struggle to maintain artistic control over his work, the string of failed marriages, and eventual exile from Hollywood after persecution for his left- wing politics and personal scandals. “Like everyone else I am what I am,” he writes, “an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.”

T H E But as this book reveals, he was indeed more than the sum of his parts. My NEVERSINK Autobiography is an evocative and compelling account of a spirit that transcended LIBRARY trouble to lead one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable lives.

EARLY ON SALE: Key points and quotes DECEMBER 26 + Chaplin was one of the first major supporters of indie film in Hollywood: He 978-1-61219-192-8 founded United Artists in 1919 with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and $20.00 / $20.00 CAN. D. W. Griffith. AUTOBIOGRAPHY + Winner of the first Academy Award. PAPERBACK 512 PAGES, 5" × 8" Praise for Charlie Chaplin and My Autobiography: EBOOK: 978-1-61219-193-5 • “Tells so much about this curious, difficult man . . . a wonderfully vivid NORTH AMERICA imagination.” —The New York Times • “Chaplin was not just ‘big,’ he was gigantic. In 1915, he burst onto a war-torn world Marketing and publicity bringing it the gift of comedy, laughter and relief while it was tearing itself apart Author website: charliechaplin.com through World War I. Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and Chaplin screenings and panel the rise of Adolf Hitler, he stayed on the job. . . . It is doubtful any individual has discussions in NYC to celebrate ever given more entertainment, pleasure and relief to so many human beings when new edition they needed it the most.” —Martin Sieff Online advertising • “The only genius to come out of the movie industry.” —George Bernard Shaw Tie-in to new musical Chaplin About the author CHARLIE CHAPLIN was born in 1889 in London to impoverished parents. He began performing at age 10 as a member of a juvenile clog-dance troupe. In 1913, while touring with a vaudeville act in the U.S., Keystone films recruited Chaplin to make films. He debuted his “Little Tramp” character in his second short. He went on to write, direct, and star in some of the most critically acclaimed moves ever made, including the classics Modern Times, The Gold Rush, City Lights, The Great Dictator, and Monsieur Verdoux. Chaplin died on Christmas day 1977.

16 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM THE POLYGLOTS A NOVEL WILLIAM GERHARDIE Introduction by Michael Holroyd

A comic masterpiece—from the man Evelyn Waugh called a “genius”—about the tragedy of life in “interesting times.”

Long out of print, William Gerhardie’s second novel—considered by most to be his masterpiece—is the unforgettable tale of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East during the turbulent years of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. Recounted by a conceited young English cousin who comes to stay during his military mission, the story is filled with a host of fascinatingly idiosyncratic characters— depressives, obsessives, sex maniacs, and hypochondriacs—often forced to choose between absurdity and tragedy. Yet Gerhardie depicts them as both charming and poignant, as they each struggle for love and safety in tumultuous times . . . and the protagonist finds his conceits shredded as he falls for one of them. Gerhardie’s deft ability to depict a world where the comic and the tragic are irrevocably entwined led many to compare him to Chekhov, but in the end this T H E stirring saga stands alone as a major work of twentieth century ficition. NEVERSINK LIBRARY Key points and quotes ON SALE: + Will appeal to a wide range of readers—from Chekhov lovers to Graham Greene JANUARY 29 devotees to William Boyd fans. + Long out of print 978-1-61219-188-1 + Michael Holroyd wrote his intro after consulting with Gerhardie about the book $17.00 / $17.00 CAN. shortly before Gerhardie’s death LITERARY FICTION PAPERBACK Praise for William Gerhardie and The Polyglots: 336 PAGES, 5" × 8" • “Wonderfully eccentric, funny, and beguilingly melancholic, Gerhardie’s EBOOK: 978-1-61219-189-8 masterpiece.” —William Boyd NORTH AMERICA • “I have talent, but he has genius.” —Evelyn Waugh Marketing and publicity • “To my generation Gerhardie was the most important new novelist to appear in our young life.” —Graham Greene Posters and shelf-talkers available • “One of the funniest writers of the century.” —Philip Toynbee Publicity and marketing for the • “A comic writer of genius . . . but his art is profoundly serious: underneath the Neversink Library will include national shamelessness and farce, his themes are the great ones, love grief and death, of print and internet media campaign intimations of joy and our imprisonment in the world of flesh and time.” Marketing to librarians —The Sunday Times Part of a Shelf Awareness ad for the Neversink Library About the author WILLIAM GERHARDIE (1895–1977) was one of the 20th century’s most ALSO AVAILABLE: underappreciated masters, celebrated as an influence by the likes of Graham Greene FUTILITY and Evelyn Waugh. Of Anglo-Russian upbringing, Gerhardie deftly combined keen 978-1-61219-145-4 observations of Russian social realism with the sly wit of the English romantic comedy, and his own particular comic edge on the dawning absurdity of the new century.

MICHAEL HOLROYD (introduction) is the author of acclaimed biographies of George Bernard Shaw, Augustus John, and Lytton Strachey, as well as two memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic. Knighted for his services to literature, he is the president emeritus of the Royal Society of Literature.

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 17 I AWAIT THE DEVIL’S COMING MARY MACLANE Introduction by Jessa Crispin

The shocking, brave and challenging diary of a teenage girl living in remote Butte, Montana in 1902, that propelled her to nationwide celebrity— and attack

Mary MacLane was a self-proclaimed genius, a caged free spirit—and a nineteen- year-old woman living miserably with her family in Butte, Montana in 1902. But when she published this book, she would break out of her cage. It sold 100,000 copies in its first month. I Await the Devil’s Coming—her title before MacLane’s publisher changed it against her wishes to The Story of Mary MacLane—lays bare in raw, sensual, provocative prose the inner life of an incomparable young woman. In love with the devil and Napoleon, bisexual, intellectual, longing for life and experience, and unafraid to speak passionately about her frustrations and desires, MacLane spoke out more than half a century before the modern feminist movement began, and before such things were spoken abut in public. MacLane would pay dearly for doing so. Pilloried by conservative critics and even T H E NEVERSINK H.L. Mencken, the embattled young woman was unable to equal her initial success LIBRARY and would be forgotten as times caught up with her. She suffered an early death, but as these crackling pages confirm, her message still speaks to caged spirits everywhere. ON SALE: MARCH 19 Key points and quotes + Sold 100,000 copies in its first month of publication. 978-1-61219-194-2 $16.00 / $16.00 CAN. + Author was once a national celebrity but is now virtually unknown. + Foreword by popular blogger/critic Jessa Crispin will position the book as a vital AUTOBIOGRAPHY PAPERBACK work in the feminist canon. 304 PAGES, 5" × 8" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-195-9 Praise for Mary MacLane and I Await the Devil’s Coming: WORLD • “One of the most fascinatingly self-involved personalities of the 20th century.” —The Age (2011) Marketing and publicity • “Mary MacLane comes off the page quivering with life. Moving.” —London Times • “Her first book was the first of the confessional diaries ever written in this country, Neversink Library posters and shelf- talkers available and it was a sensation.” —New York Times • “The first of the self-expressionists, and also the first of the Flappers.”—Chicagoan Publicity and marketing for the Neversink Library will include national print and internet media campaign About the author Marketing to librarians MARY MACLANE was born in 1881 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her family Part of a Shelf Awareness ad for the moved to Minnesota while she was young, then again to Montana after the death Neversink Library of her father. She published her first book,I Await the Devil’s Coming, in 1902 at Outreach to feminist media the age of nineteen. Following its publication she moved first to Chicago, then to Massachusetts, then to Greenwich Village, New York. She published two further books, including the memoir I, Mary MacLane in 1917; also in 1917 she wrote and starred in an autobiographical silent film, Men Who Have Made Love to Me. She died in 1929, and her works fell almost immediately into obscurity.

JESSA CRISPIN (introduction) is a critic and the editor-in-chief of Bookslut, a litblog and webzine founded in 2002. She is a book critic for NPR and contributor to PBS’s Need to Know, and has written for The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian and the Globe and Mail.

18 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM A COUNTRY DOCTOR’S NOTEBOOK MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Translated with an introduction by Michael Glenny

The stirring and previously unavailable memoir of the great author, detailing his life as a young doctor in remote and pre-revolutionary Russia.

In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor Mikhail Bulgakov was posted to the remote Russian countryside. He brought to his position a diploma and a complete lack of field experience. And the challenges he faced didn’t end there: he was assigned to cover a vast and sprawling territory that was as yet unvisited by modern conveniences such as the motor car, the telephone, and the electric light. A Country Doctor’s Notebook is based on this two-year window in the life of the modernist master. Bulgakov candidly details his own feelings of inadequacy, and warmly and wittily recounts episodes such as peasants applying medicine to their outer clothing rather than their skin, and finding himself charged with a difficult delivery of a baby—having only read about the procedure in text books. Not yet marked by the dark fantasy of his later writing, this early work features T H E NEVERSINK a realistic and wonderfully engaging narrative voice—the voice, indeed, of twentieth LIBRARY century Russia’s greatest writer.

ON SALE: Key points and quotes FEBRUARY 5 + The experiences and education of a newly qualified doctor. + Will appeal to those interested in Russian history: a snapshot of rural Russia 978-1-61219-190-4 $15.00 / $15.00 CAN. before the revolution. + The author’s only work that includes autobiographical revelations AUTOBIOGRAPHY PAPERBACK Praise for A Country Doctor’s Notebook: 160 PAGES, 5" × 8" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-191-1 • “These straightforward yet extraordinary sketches gain their strength from also NORTH AMERICA being the account of a young man’s growth. One begins to see that he became a novelist not because he had material but because he was storing up passion and Marketing and publicity temperament.” —V.S. Pritchett, New Statesman • “Stories as keen and bright as a scalpel. . . Courage shines from every angle of this Neversink Library posters and shelf- talkers available profoundly human collection by the greatest of modern Russian writers.” —Sunday Times Publicity and marketing for the Neversink Library will include national • “Bulgakov casts a wonderfully wry, self-deprecating humour. His compassion for print and internet media campaign human folly is unfailing. . . These stories stand testament both to human resilience Marketing to librarians and a remarkable literary talent.” —The Independent Part of a Shelf Awareness ad for the Neversink Library About the author MIKHAIL BULGAKOV was born in Kiev on May 15th, 1891. He graduated as a doctor but gave up the practice of medicine in 1920 to devote himself to literature. He is the author of The White Guard, Heart of a Dog, and his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. He died in Moscow of kidney disease in 1940.

MICHAEL GLENNY (1927–1990) was one of the world’s leading translators of Russian literature, who was also famous for bringing the works of then-lesser-known dissident writers to the fore, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Georgi Vladimov. He was the first person to translate Mikhail Bulgakov into English.

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 19 DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: THE LAST INTERVIEW AND OTHER CONVERSATIONS

A unique selection of the best interviews given by David Foster Wallace, including the last he gave before his untimely death

David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview and Other Conversations charts the growth, both personal and artistic, of a uniquely talented and cherished writer, frequently labeled the best of his generation. In addition to Wallace’s last interview, given to the Wall Street Journal weeks before his death, the volume features a legendary interview with Russian journalist Ostap Karmodi, a conversation with Cleveland State University’s Whiskey Island Magazine from early in Wallace’s career, his famous Salon interview with Laura Miller following the publication of Infinite Jest, and more. These conversations showcase and illuminate the traits for which Wallace remains so beloved: his incomparable humility and enormous erudition, his wit, sensitivity, and humanity. As he eloquently describes his writing process and motivations, displays his EARLY ON SALE: curiosity by time and again turning the tables on his interviewers, and delivers DECEMBER 26 thoughtful, idiosyncratic views on literature, politics, entertainment and discipline, and the state of modern America, a fuller picture of this remarkable mind is revealed. 978-1-61219-206-2 $15.95 / $15.95 CAN. Key points and quotes BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY PAPERBACK + Both Flesh and Not, a new anthology of David Foster Wallace essays, is 1 1 176 PAGES, 5 ⁄2” × 8 ⁄4” forthcoming from Little, Brown November 6—no doubt sparking renewed EBOOK: 978-1-61219-207-9 attention for David Foster Wallace WORLD + Including not only print but otherwise unavailable transcribed broadcast Marketing and publicity interviews + Sure to appeal to DFW’s huge and passionate fan base, as well as to general Pitching to holiday gift sections readers interested in learning more about the motivations of the literary voice of a Online promotion generation Promo at AWP 2013 Praise for David Foster Wallace: • “The best mind of his generation.” —A. O. Scott • “In a culture that depletes you daily of your capacity for imagination, for language, for autonomous thought, complexity like Dave’s is a gift.” —Zadie Smith • “One of the big talents of his generation, a writer of virtuosic talents who can seemingly do anything.” —New York Times • “The funniest writer of his generation.” —Voice Literary Supplement • “A prose magician. . . He could map the infinite and infinitesimal, the mythic and mundane.” —Michiko Kakutani

About the author DAVID FOSTER WALLACE (1962–2008) was an award-winning novelist, short- story writer, and essayist. He is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest. Frequently referred to as the voice of his generation, he won a multitude of prizes and accolades before committing suicide in 2008.

20 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM JORGE LUIS BORGES: THE LAST INTERVIEW AND OTHER CONVERSATIONS Translated by Kit Maude; Edited by Gloria Lopez Lecube

The literary giant’s last interview, translated into English for the first time, along with the best interviews from throughout his long and influential career

Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life. Accompanying that interview are a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Highlights include his celebrated conversations with Richard Burgin during Borges’s time as a lecturer at Harvard University, in which he gives rich new insights into his own works and the literature of others, as well as discussing his now oft-overlooked political views. The pieces combine to give a new and revealing window on one of the most celebrated cultural figures of the past century. EARLY ON SALE: DECEMBER 26 Key points and quotes + Discusses his own writing in detail: functions as a “guide” for those new to his 978-1-61219-204-8 work as well as giving new perspectives for established fans. $15.95 / $15.95 CAN. + Discusses the great figures of literature from the US, UK, and Latin America. BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY PAPERBACK Invaluable for students and lovers of literature. 1 1 176 PAGES, 5 ⁄2” × 8 ⁄4” + Discusses his own creative processes: will appeal to writers. EBOOK: 978-1-61219-205-5 + Intimate insights into his personal life from first ever translation of his last WORLD interview. Marketing and publicity The New York Times on Richard Burgin’s Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges [several Burgin conversations feature in this volume]: Pitching to holiday gift sections • “Further acquaintance with the writings of Borges reveals a complex person who Online promotion draws extensively from the world’s literatures and philosophies, but who with Promo at AWP 2013 the same breath denies his cosmopolitan urbanity. . . A highly personal offering. Borges is perhaps telling us that this interview experience was indeed a moment of self-knowledge, a moment suspended in time—that Richard Burgin did indeed help him to ‘know himself.’”

About the author JORGE LUIS BORGES (b. 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 1986, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Argentine short-story writer, poet, essayist and translator. He was one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century, inspiring generations of writers in the US and UK as well as his native Latin America. He is most famous for the short-story collections Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949).

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 21 THE LAST INTERVIEW A celebrated series of pocket-sized interview collections, featuring conversations with some of the most iconic writers and thinkers of our time

KURT VONNEGUT ROBERTO BOLAÑO LEARNING TO LIVE THE LAST INTERVIEW AND THE LAST INTERVIEW AND FINALLY OTHER CONVERSATIONS OTHER CONVERSATIONS THE LAST INTERVIEW Edited by Tom McCartan Translated by Sybil Perez JACQUES DERRIDA Introduction by Marcela Valdes With a bibliography by Peter Krapp “Like Mark Twain and Abraham Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault Lincoln, even when he’s funny, “In many ways . . . more fun to read and Michael Naas he’s depressed. . . . The way he goes than his novels.” about his business has helped most —Susan Salter Reynolds, “No thinker in the last 100 years had of us to go on living, if only to find Los Angeles Times a greater impact than he did on out what happens next.” people in more fields and different —John Leonard, The Nation “A welcome and handy little volume disciplines. . . . No thinker has been that anyone interested in the author more deeply misunderstood.” “He is a satirist with a heart, a will likely enjoy.” —Mark C. Taylor, New York Times moralist with a whoopee cushion, —The Complete Review a cynic who wants to believe.” —Jay McInerney

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MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 23 THE SCIENCE DELUSION RELEARNING TO ASK THE BIG QUESTIONS IN A CULTURE OF EASY ANSWERS CURTIS WHITE

One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions

With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer, you’re likely to become a subject of ridicule if you wonder “Why is there something instead of nothing?” or “What is our purpose on earth?” Instead, at universities around the world, and in the general cultural milieu, we’re all being taught that science can resolve all questions without the help of philosophy, politics, or the humanities. In short, the rich philosophical debates of the 19th century have been nearly totally abandoned, argues critic Curtis White. An atheist himself, White nonetheless calls this new turn “scientism”—and fears what it will do to our culture if allowed to ON SALE: flourish without challenge. In fact, in “scientism” White sees a new religion with many MAY 7 unexamined assumptions. 978-1-61219-200-0 In this brilliant multi-part critique, he aims at a TED talk by a distinguished $23.95 / $23.95 CAN. neuroscientist in which we are told that human thought is merely the product of PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE our “connectome,” a map of neural connections in the brain that is yet to be fully HARDCOVER understood. . . . He whips a widely respected physicist who argues that our new 1 1 272 PAGES, 5 ⁄2" × 8 ⁄4" understanding of the origins of the universe obviates any philosophical inquiry . . . EBOOK: 978-1-61219-201-7 WORLD and ends with a learned defense of the tradition of Romanticism, which White believes our technology and science-obsessed world desperately needs to rediscover. Marketing and publicity It’s the only way, he argues, that we can see our world clearly. . . and change it. Video/web chat with the author Key points and quotes Feature at American Sociological + Enters a long-brewing debate with new ideas and a fresh perspective Association and American Association of Religion + White is the kind of critic who attracts reviews and attention, and his books have historically drawn wide coverage Targeted ARC mailing to IndieNext stores + Well-connected author with many fans in the press Targeting science press: American Praise for The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves: Scientist, Popular Science, • “Cogent, acute, beautiful, and true.” —David Foster Wallace Smithsonian Magazine etc. • “A splendidly cranky academic.” —Molly Ivins Targeting national radio interviews: • “The most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment.” —Will Blythe, Elle NPR, Radio Lab, science radio shows • “At first,The Middle Mind looks simply like this season’s lefty screed but where Author to write op-eds White departs from most liberal ranters is that he doesn’t blame the stupidizing of Author tour: Chicago, New York, America on brainwashing or sinister corporations. He blames you and me.” Boston, DC, to universities and —John Colapinto, Rolling Stone bookstores Debates—will pitch author for Notre About the author Dame God debate, for example CURTIS WHITE is the author of the novels Memories of My Father Watching TV and Requiem. A widely acclaimed essayist, his work appears regularly in Context and Harper’s Magazine. He is an English professor at Illinois State University and the current president of the Center for Book Culture/Dalkey Archive Press. His The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves was a national bestseller in 2003.

24 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM THE ANNALS OF UNSOLVED CRIME THE UNTOLD STORY BEHIND HISTORY’S MOST NOTORIOUS ASSASSINATIONS, PLANE CRASHES, MURDERS, SUICIDES, AND OTHER ACTS OF DESTRUCTION EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN

The product of more than 40 years of investigative work: an insightful guide to some of the most controversial and mysterious crimes of the last 200 years

Edward Jay Epstein’s book on the Kennedy assassination Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth was the first book on the case and an instant bestseller. After speaking to every member of the Warren Commission, Epstein concluded that enough remained uninvestigated that conspiracy theories would persist for years. Ever since, Epstein has remained a skeptic—and a dogged investigator. Writing EARLY ON SALE: for the New Yorker and Vanity Fair, he has reported on dozens of famous crimes. His FEBRUARY 26 books include a dissection of Lee Harvey Oswald’s ties to Soviet intelligence (Legend: 978-1-61219-048-8 The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald), an account of Nixon-era crimes (Agency of $26.00 / $26.00 CAN. Fear), a widely-respected study of the CIA (Deception: The Invisible War Between the TRUE CRIME KGB & the CIA), and a study of surveillance tapes of Dominique Strauss-Kahn (Three HARDCOVER Days in May). 336 PAGES, 6" × 9" His method is simple: outline what is known and unknown, and show the plausible EBOOK: 978-1-61219-049-5 WORLD theories of the case. Where more than one theory exists, he shows the evidence for and against each. And when something remains to be proved, he says as much. Crimes covered in The In The Annals of Unsolved Crime, Epstein collects his investigations and adds Annals of Unsolved Crime dozens of new cases. From the Lindbergh Kidnapping to the JonBenet Ramsey case, from the Lincoln assassination and the death of Simon Bolivar to the demise of The Lincoln Assassination The Mysterious Death of Simon Bolivar Marilyn Monroe, Epstein considers more than two dozen high-profile crimes and Jack the Ripper their tangled histories to prove himself one of the most penetrating journalist in The Mayerling Incident America. The Lindbergh Kidnapping The Reichstag Fire The Death of King Ananda Key points and quotes The Crash of Dag Hammarskjold + Avoids the essay collection label, while reproducing award-winning pieces from The Fiery Death of Enrico Mattei The Marilyn Monroe “Suicide” the New Yorker and Vanity Fair The Kennedy Assassination + Including numerous photographs and other illustrations The Zodiac Murders + Will appeal to true crime and history fans, as Epstein’s take on each case varies in The Vanishing of Jimmy Hoffa The Case of O.J. Simpson some way from the “accepted” theory The 2001 Anthrax Attacks + Epstein is a well-connected journalist who attracts attention Assassination of Hariri DSK About the author ALSO AVAILABLE: EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN is the author of fourteen books, including The Hollywood THE HOLLYWOOD Economist and Three Days in May, both from Melville House. He has written for the ECONOMIST 2.0 Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker, 978-1-61219-050-1 and he lives in New York City.

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 25 DOSSIER K A MEMOIR IMRE KERTÉSZ Translated by Tim Wilkinson

The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize-winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview—conducted by the author of himself.

Dossier K is Imre Kertész’s response to the hasty biographies and profiles that followed his 2002 Nobel Prize, an attempt to set the record straight. But, as befits Kertész, it’s a beautifully roundabout way of going straight: Kertész faces and interrogates himself about the issues and events that have long preoccupied him, while also dealing with the questions that really annoy him (such as, “Is your work autobiographical?”). The result is an extraordinary self-portrait, in which Kertész recounts memories of his childhood in Budapest; the years that lead up to the Second World War and his first encounters with anti-Semitism; the incredible forged record of his death in Buchenwald that may in fact have saved his life; his release from the camps and his return to his family; Hungary’s Rákosi and Kádár regimes and the terror, hypocrisy, and absurdity they entailed; his thoughts about what other writers have written about ON SALE: the Holocaust; his two marriages; and his long development as a writer. MAY 7 This is a surprising and provocative autobiography that delves into questions 978-1-61219-202-4 about the legacy of the Holocaust, fiction and reality, and what Kertész calls “the $18.95 / $18.95 CAN. wonderful burden of being responsible for yourself.” AUTOBIOGRAPHY PAPERBACK Key points and quotes 224 PAGES, 5" × 8" + The first full English account of Kertész’s life not only during the Second World EBOOK: 978-1-61219-203-1 War, but also under so-called “goulash Communism” WORLD + Will appeal to readers interested in Eastern European literature and history, such Marketing and publicity as new fans of László Krasznahorkai and Péter Nádas + Lively interview style, with arguments, putdowns, and jokes—the “interview with National media campaign oneself” format is also likely to intrigue reviewers Bookseller newsletter Praise for Imre Kertész and Dossier K: Author Q&A for press kit • “Kertész, like Beckett, is deadly serious and his work is a profound meditation on Targeting critics who have the great and enduring themes of love, death and the problem of evil.” reviewed Kertész —John Banville, The Nation Email blasts to Comparative • “The opposite of a Bildungsroman, its defining features are not organic Literature and Writing Departments development and continuity but rupture and shock. . . Kertész attempts to Featured at the Association for Slavic, reconnect to humanity, to define himself as an individual, as the subject of East European, and Eurasian Studies, his own history.” —Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung the Jewish Studies Association • Conference, and the Modern “A counterpart of Günter Grass’s Peeling The Onion. Just as accurate and relentless, Language Association Conference a book of autobiographical self-questioning, which undermines any kind of dogmatism.” —Neue Zurcher Zeitung ALSO AVAILABLE: About the author FIASCO 978-1-935554-29-5 IMRE KERTÉSZ was born in Hungary in 1929. At the age of fourteen he was THE PATHSEEKER imprisoned at Auschwitz and later at the Buchenwald concentration camps. He is the 978-1-933633-53-4 author of 14 books of fiction and non-fiction, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for THE UNION JACK literature in 2002 for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual 978-1-933633-87-9 against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.”

TIM WILKINSON is the primary English translator of Imre Kertész.

26 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM COTTON TENANTS THREE FAMILIES JAMES AGEE AND WALKER EVANS Introduction by Adam Haslett

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer

In the summer of 1936, James Agee set out with photographer Walker Evans on assignment for Fortune magazine. Their mission was to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the height of the Great Depression. The journey fostered an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when the resulting report was turned into a book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, published in 1941. Critics and biographers have assumed that Fortune editors killed the original article, and for years the essay was presumed lost to history. But in 2010 a manuscript of the original Fortune dispatch was discovered among papers removed from Agee’s apartment during the 1950s. And, despite the legend that had developed around the article, scholars found a masterful 30,000-word report, a refinement of the multi-part investigations that Agee had regularly filed forFortune . ON SALE: Published here for the first time, Agee’s original dispatch—accompanied by 25 of JUNE 4 Walker Evans’ historic photos—is an unsparing record of place and of three families who worked the land at a desperate time. It remains relevant today as one the most 978-1-61219-212-3 $15.95 / $15.95 CAN. honest explorations of poverty in America ever attempted, and as one of the most ambitious and poetic pieces of magazine writing ever attempted. HISTORY / ESSAYS PAPERBACK 3 1 160 PAGES, 5 ⁄8" × 8 ⁄2" Key points and quotes EBOOK: 978-1-61219-213-0 WORLD + A re-discovered masterpiece of American magazine writing. + Let Us Now Praise Famous Men has been cited as one the greatest literary works of Marketing and publicity the 20th century by the New York University School of Journalism and the New York Public Library. National media campaign, with a + Cotton Tenants is being co-published with The Baffler magazine focus on features to highlight the “rediscovery” of Cotton Tenants Praise for James Agee and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Marketing to journalism schools • “The most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation.” Feature at CCCC 2013, NCTE 2013, —Lionel Trilling MLA 2014 • “The most remarkable regular event in American journalism today.”—W. H. Auden Target Southern press: Oxford American, Garden and Gun, Southern About the author Living, The Tennessean, New Orleans Times Picayune JAMES AGEE (1909–1955) was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and started his writing career as a reporter for Fortune. He was also a novelist and poet. His only collection of poetry, Permit Me Voyage, won the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1934. His posthumous novel, A Death in the Family, won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize. Agee also wrote movie reviews for Time and The Nation, as well as several important film scripts, includingThe African Queen (starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn) and The Night of the Hunter (directed by Charles Laughton).

WALKER EVANS (1903–1975) was on loan from the Farm Security Administration, where he was documenting the effects of the Great Depression, while collaborating with James Agee. He is perhaps the most influential American photographer of the 20th-century.

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 27 AN AFGHANISTAN PICTURE SHOW OR, HOW I SAVED THE WORLD WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a still-timely, personal account of the origins of America’s longest war.

In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he’d saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he wanted to join the mujahedeen to fight the Soviets. The resulting book wasn’t published until 1992, and Library Journal rated it: “The wrong book written at the wrong time. . . . With the situation in Afghanistan rapidly heading toward resolution . . . libraries may safely skip this.” Thirty years later—and with the United States still mired in the longest war of its history—it’s time for a reassessment of Vollman’s heartfelt tale of idealism and its terrifying betrayals. An alloy of documentary and autobiographical elements characteristic of Vollmann’s later nonfiction, An Afghanistan Picture Show is not a work of conventional reportage; instead, it’s an account of a subtle and stubborn consciousness grappling ON SALE: with the limits of will and idealism imposed by violence and chaos. JULY 9 978-1-61219-198-0 Key points and quotes $16.95 / $16.95 CAN. + Featuring a number of Vollmann’s photos and drawings from his trip AUTOBIOGRAPHY + Vollmann just pubbed Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip Through Hell and High PAPERBACK Water in Post-Earthquake Japan. He is the editor of the 2012 edition of The Best 1 1 304 PAGES, 5 ⁄2" × 8 ⁄4" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-199-7 American Travel Writing. And The Dying Grass will be published by Viking in WORLD 2013—sure to generate review and off-the-book attention. + Vollmann was the winner of the National Book Award in 2005. Marketing and publicity + Vollmann has reported from the around the world on numerous topics, but An Afghanistan Picture Show is Vollmann’s first long-form reporting project. Video Q&A with Vollmann Will pitch national political/news Praise for An Afghanistan Picture Show: magazine features (to Atlantic, NY • “Vivid and complex . . . Vollmann conveys the frightening, almost otherworldly Times Mag, New York) joy of the mujahedeen as they fight against Soviet troops . . . a bold and original ARCs to bookstores accomplishment . . . in his honest accounts of their plight, and his morally Display at American Library and emotionally complicated reactions to it, Vollmann has written a powerful, Association, Association of Writers searching addition to the literature of personal witness.” —Los Angeles Times and Writing Programs, American Sociology Association conferences About the author Feature in the Melville House WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN Librarian Newsletter (1,200 is the author of ten novels, three collections of stories, subscribers) and many volumes of non-fiction, including a seven-volume inquiry into whether Feature in the Melville House and how violence may be justified,Rising Up and Rising Down, a finalist for the Bookseller Newsletter National Book Critics Circle Award. His novel Europe Central won the National Book Pitch “re-discovery” reviews to critics Award in 2005. Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip Through Hell and High Water in Post- Earthquake Japan was published last year by Byliner. He is the editor of The Best Online/magazine feature using Vollmann’s photography from American Travel Writing 2012. The Dying Grass, the fifth book in Vollmann’s “Seven Afghanistan Dreams” series, will be published in 2013. He lives in California.

28 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM COLLEGE OF ONE THE STORY OF HOW F. SCOTT FITZGERALD EDUCATED THE WOMAN HE LOVED SHEILAH GRAHAM

The moving story of how F. Scott Fitzgerald—washed up, alcoholic and ill— dedicated himself to devising a heartfelt course in literature for the woman he loved

In 1937, on the night of her engagement to the Marquess of Donegall, Sheilah Graham met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a party in Hollywood. Graham, a British-born journalist, broke off her engagement, and until Fitzgerald had a fatal heart attack in her apartment in 1940, the two writers lived the fervid, sometimes violent affair that is memorialized here with unprecedented intimacy. When they met, Fitzgerald’s fame had waned. He battled crippling alcoholism while writing screenplays to support his daughter and institutionalized wife. Graham’s star, however, was rising, to the point where she became Hollywood’s highest-paid, best-read gossip columnist. But if Fitzgerald had lived out his “crack-up” in public, Graham kept her demons secret—such as that she believed herself to be “a fascinating

T H E fake who pulled the wool over Hollywood’s eyes.’’ NEVERSINK Most poignantly, she keenly felt her lack of education, and Fitzgerald rose to the LIBRARY occasion. He became her passionate tutor, guiding her through a curriculum of his own design: a college of one. Graham loved him the more for it, writing the book as a ON SALE: tribute. As she explained, “An unusual man’s ideas on what constituted an education MAY 28 had to be preserved. It is a new chapter to add to what is already known about an 978-1-61219-283-3 author who has been microscopically investigated in all the other areas of his life.” $15.00 / $15.00 CAN. BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY Key points and quotes PAPERBACK Praise for College of One: 272 PAGES, 5" × 8" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-284-0 • “The story of a sad and splendid love.” —Chicago Tribune WORLD • “It’s a fascinating (and almost forgotten) book.” —James L. W. West III, general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald Marketing and publicity About the author Timed to coincide with the release of the Leonardo DiCaprio Great Gatsby Born Lily Sheil in 1904, the daughter of Jewish Ukranian immigrants, SHEILAH film in summer 2013 GRAHAM was raised in a London orphanage. She emigrated to New York in 1933 IndieNext targeted mailing and to Hollywood two years later. In 1964, Time magazine reported that Graham had Neversink Library series advertising “deposed Hopper and Parsons as doyenne of the Hollywood columnists.’’ She had her in national literary periodicals, print own radio and television programs and wrote several books. In 1959, Beloved Infidel, and online a bestselling memoir of her affair with F. Scott Fitzgerald, became a film starring Featured at BEA Neversink Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr. Graham died in 1988. bookseller party Display at Modern Languages Association and the American Studies Association Featured in MH library newsletter Posters & shelf-talkers available

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 29 THE OASIS A NOVEL MARY MCCARTHY Introduction by Vivian Gornick Readers of McCarthy’s 1963 bestseller The Group (recently revived for a new generation by its appearance on Mad Men) will want to read this brilliant precursor.

Mary McCarthy’s long-out-of-print second book satirizes the everyday struggles of a utopian commune seeking refuge after the destruction of the Second World War. It’s also a roman a clef in which she hardly troubles to disguise her characters— causing an explosion of outrage among the literary elite of the day, who did not fail to recognize themselves among her uncharitably, but all-too-accurately drawn portraits. McCarthy’s former lover, Philip Rahv, the model for the insufferably smug Will Taub, threatened a lawsuit. Diana Trilling called McCarthy “a thug.” And it must be admitted: It is a cruel little book—“vicious, malicious, and nasty,” as McCarthy’s friend Dwight Macdonald wrote (after he, too, appeared in the book as Macdougal Macdermott). But it has outlasted its first detonation and can now be enjoyed for its aphoristic, cold-blooded dissection of the vanities of human endeavor. T H E NEVERSINK All of which, by the way, is enhanced by the introduction from renowned essayist LIBRARY Vivian Gornick, tracing the influence of McCarthy on her generation of writers and thinkers. ON SALE: JUNE 11 Key points and quotes + First US trade paperback publication. 978-1-61219-228-4 + $15.00 / $15.00 CAN. Out of print in the US since 1949 LITERARY FICTION Praise for The Oasis: PAPERBACK • “Brilliant and true and funny and beautifully written and intelligently thought 144 PAGES, 5" × 8" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-229-1 and felt.” —Cyril Connolly WORLD • “Her prose is economical without being austere, witty without extravagance, tense and dramatic in its development from sentence to paragraph, clean as a chime. . . Marketing and publicity Her intelligence and learning are dazzling . . . defamatory brilliance. . .” —The New York Times Mailing to key Women’s Studies professors • “Miss McCarthy earned recognition for her cool, analytic intelligence and her exacting literary voice—a voice capable of moving from the frivolously feminine to Feature in the Melville House Librarian Newsletter (1,200 the willfully cerebral, from girlish insouciance to bare-knuckled fury.” subscribers), bookseller newsletter. —Michiko Kakutani Feature at the Modern Language Association Conference About the author MARY M CCARTHY Store-specific ARC mailings to literary, was born in Seattle in 1912. When her parents died in 1918 leftist, and political stores. she was deposited with relations, as memorialized in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Events with Vivian Gornick in New into “circumstances of almost Dickensian cruelty and squalor.” She joined the Partisan York discussing McCarthy’s legacy. Review in 1937, and married eminent critic Edmund Wilson in 1938, the second of four Vivian Gornick’s introduction marriages. Her scandalous, 1963 novel The Group spent two years on the New York excerpted for print press: will pitch to Times bestseller list. Appalled by the book, Vassar College tried to revoke her degree. The New Inquiry, Harper’s etc. She died October 25, 1989 in New York City. Outreach to literary sites with female focus, such as Jezebel, The Hairpin VIVIAN GORNICK is the author of many books, including The End of the Novel of Love, a National Book Critic’s Circle Award finalist, Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, and The Men in My Life. She teaches writing at The New School.

30 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM WHERE THERE’S LOVE, THERE’S HATE A NOVEL ADOLFO BIOY CASARES AND SILVINA OCAMPO Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Jessica Ernst Powell Introduction by Suzanne Jill Levine

A witty yet gripping pastiche of murder mysteries set in an Argentine seaside resort, peppered with literary allusions

In seaside Bosque de Mar, guests at the Hotel Central are struck by double misfortune: the mysterious death of one of their party, and an investigation headed by the physician, writer and insufferable busybody, Dr. Humberto Huberman. When quiet, young translator Mary is found dead on the first night of Huberman’s stay, he quickly appoints himself leader of an inquiry that will see blame apportioned in turn to each and every guest—including Mary’s own sister—and culminating in a wild, wind- blown reconnaissance mission to the nearby shipwreck, the Joseph K.

T H E Never before translated into English, Where There’s Love, There’s Hate is both NEVERSINK genuinely suspenseful mystery fiction and an ingenious pastiche of the genre, the LIBRARY only novel co-written by two towering figures of Latin American literature. Famously friends and collaborators of Jorge Luis Borges, husband and wife Bioy Casares and ON SALE: Ocampo combine their gifts to produce a novel that’s captivating, unashamedly MAY 14 erudite and gloriously witty. 978-1-61219-150-8 $15.00 / $15.00 CAN. Key points and quotes LITERARY FICTION + First ever translation into English PAPERBACK + Only collaborative novel by the author of The Invention of Morel and his wife, both 112 PAGES, 5" × 8" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-151-5 of them close friends and regular collaborators of Borges WORLD + Introduction by Suzanne Jill Levine

Praise for The Invention of Morel: Marketing and publicity • “The Invention of Morel may be described, without exaggeration, as a perfect Display at American Library novel. . . . Bioy Casares’s theme is not cosmic, but metaphysical: the body is Association, Modern Language imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom.” —Octavio Paz Association, Latin American Studies Association About the author Email blast to Latin American Literature professors ADOLFO BIOY CASARES (1914–99) is one of the most important literary figures of his native Argentina, most famous as the author of The Invention of Morel (1940). NYC event targets: Idlewild Books, Americas Society He won the French Legion of Honour and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, was a lifelong friend of Borges, and married to Silvina Ocampo. Ongoing series display promotion, including spin racks. SILVINA OCAMPO (1903–1993) was an award-winning poet and short story Neversink-specific newsletter writer, also well known for her children’s fiction. She was born in Buenos Aires and Target literary publications & blogs later studied art in Paris. Together with her husband Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges, she edited the famous 1940 Antología de la literature fantástica.

SUZANNE JILL LEVINE (translator and introduction) is the author of numerous studies in Latin American literature and the translator of works by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Manuel Puig.

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 31 THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING JEAN COCTEAU Translated by Elizabeth Sprigge

Reflections on life and art from the legendary filmmaker-novelist- poet-genius

By the time he published The Difficulty of Being in 1947, Jean Cocteau had produced some of the most respected films and literature of the twentieth century, and had worked with the foremost artists of his time, including Proust, Gide, Picasso and Stravinsky. This memoir tells the inside account of those achievements and of his glittering social circle. Cocteau writes about his childhood, about his development as an artist, and the peculiarity of the artist’s life, about his dreams, friendships, pain, and laughter. He probes his motivations and explains his philosophies, giving intimate details in soaring prose. And sprinkled throughout are anecdotes about the elite and historic people he associated with. Beyond illuminating a truly remarkable life, The Difficulty of Being is an inspiring homage to the belief that art matters.

T H E NEVERSINK Key points and quotes LIBRARY + An excellent introduction to one of the most important cultural figures of the ON SALE: twentieth century + Seen by the author as the key to his oeuvre MAY 21 + Anecdotes about the most famous and seminal artists, writers and musicians of 978-1-61219-290-1 the 20th century $15.95 / $15.95 CAN. + Only available edition AUTOBIOGRAPHY PAPERBACK Praise for The Difficulty of Being 176 PAGES, 5" × 8" • “A man to whom every great line of poetry was a sunrise, every sunset the EBOOK: 978-1-61219-291-8 foundation of the Heavenly City.” —Edith Wharton WORLD • “One of the master craftsmen.” —Tennessee Williams • Marketing and publicity “One of the most inspiring creators—and self-creations—of the twentieth century.” —New Yorker Giveaways through avant-garde and • “He left his mark on an entire era.” —New York Times translation-focused websites such as • “To enclose the collected works of Cocteau one would need not a bookshelf, but a Translationista warehouse. . .” —W.H. Auden Neversink Library series advertising • “[Cocteau] had, and still has, a huge influence on the avant-garde of American film.” in national literary periodicals, print —The Guardian and online Events pitched with Cocteau About the author screenings JEAN COCTEAU Featured at BEA Neversink (1889–1963) was a novelist, poet, filmmaker, artist and playwright. bookseller party Born in a village just outside of Paris, he left home at fifteen and published his first Featured at the Modern Languages volume of poetry, Aladdin’s Lamp, at nineteen. He circulated in the highest ranks of Association annual convention bohemian Paris, and counted Picasso and Proust among his close friends. His most Email blast to professors of film, famous works include the novel Les Enfants terribles and the films Beauty and the theater, history, and literature Beast and Orpheus. He was openly gay and at one time an opium addict. He died of a Posters & shelf-talkers available heart attack after being informed of the death of his friend, the singer Edith Piaf.

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MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 33 HEART OF A DOG A NOVEL MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Translated by Michael Glenny, with a new introduction by Andrey Kurkov

A new edition of Bulgakov’s fantastical precursor to The Master and Margarita, part of Melville House’s reissue of the Bulgakov backlist in Michael Glenny’s celebrated translations

A key work of early modernism, this is the superbly comic story of a Soviet scientist and a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Attempting a medical first, the scientist transplants the glands of a petty criminal into the dog and, with that, turns a distinctly worryingly human animal loose on the city. The new, lecherous, vulgar, Engels-spouting Sharik soon finds his niche in govenrmental bureaucracy as the official in charge of purging the city of cats. A Frankenstein fable that’s as funny as it is terrifying, Heart of a Dog has also been read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution. It was rejected for publication by the censors in 1925, and circulated in samizdat for years until Michael Glenny translated it into English in 1968—long before it was allowed to be officially published in the ON SALE: Soviet Union. That happened only in 1987, although till this day the book remains one JULY 23 of Mikhail Bulgakov’s most controversial novels in his native country. 978-1-61219-288-8 Key points and quotes $14.95 / $14.95 CAN. + Adapted multiple times for the theater and the movies LITERARY FICTION PAPERBACK + A blistering magical realist satire, one of the author’s most important works and a 144 PAGES, 5" × 8" must-read for fans of The Master and Margarita EBOOK: 978-1-61219-289-5 NORTH AMERICA Praise for Heart of a Dog: • “As high-spirited as it is pointed. Unlike so much satire, it has a splendid sense Marketing and publicity of fun.” —Eileen Battersby, Irish Times • “Bulgakov here assaults the dour utilitarian lives of Soviet citizens with a defiant, Focus on feature coverage of author/ translator in literary outlets: NYTBR, boisterous display of nonsense.” —The Times NYRB, New Yorker • “One of the greatest of modern Russian writers, perhaps the greatest.” Samizdat marketing mailings to —Nigel Jones, Independent booksellers. . . including a letter from Russian bookseller talking about the About the author importance of Bulgakov. MICHAEL BULGAKOV was born in Kiev in 1891. Schooled as a doctor, he gave Bookseller newsletter up the practice of medicine in 1920 to devote himself to writing. He went on to craft Banned Book Week promotion some of the greatest novels in twentieth century Russian literature, including The Featured title at the Modern White Guard, Heart of a Dog, and The Master and Margarita. He died in Moscow of Language Association Conference kidney disease in 1940. Email blast to Russian Literature professors MICHAEL GLENNY (1927–1990) was one of the world’s leading translators of Email blast to Russian and Theatre Russian literature, translating the works of Gogol and Doestoevsky. But he was also professors famous for bringing the works of then-lesser-known dissident writers to the fore, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Georgi Vladimov. He was the first person to translate Mikhail Bulgakov into English.

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34 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM BLACK SNOW A NOVEL MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Translated by Michael Glenny, with a new introduction by Terry Gilliam

A new edition of Bulgakov’s blistering satire about the great Russian director Stanislavski, inventor of “Method acting,” part of Melville House’s reissue of the Bulgakov backlist in Michael Glenny’s celebrated translations

In 1926, a play based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The White Guard premiered at the prestigious Moscow Arts Theatre and it was an immediate and long-lasting success that laid the ground for the rest of Bulgakov’s career as a playwright and novelist. But it was not an entirely positive experience, and this novel, written near the end of Bulgakov’s life, skewers the theatrical fraternity he had been a part of for many years, and the Stalinist system of censorship that suppressed his work. Black Snow is the story of Maxudov, a young playwright whose play is chosen, almost at random, to be performed by the legendary Independent Theatre, and the chaos that ensues. The two co-directors of the theater, modeled after Stanislavski and his co-director, battle to control the production, star actresses throw daily fits, ON SALE: and with each rehearsal the chances of the play ever being ready to perform recedes. JULY 23 The ultimate backstage novel and a brilliant satire from one of the greatest modern Russian writers. 978-1-61219-214-7 $15.00 / $15.00 CAN. Key points and quotes LITERARY FICTION PAPERBACK + Long out of print 192 PAGES, 5" × 8" + Stanislavski is one of the most important people in theater history, and this EBOOK: 978-1-61219-215-4 devastating and very funny debunking of him and his “Method”—made famous NORTH AMERICA by Marlon Brando and his acting descendents—will appeal to readers interested in Marketing and publicity theater and the movies + The many fans ofThe Master and Margaritawill welcome another Bulgakov novel Focus on feature coverage of author/ translator in literary outlets: NYTBR, Praise for Black Snow: NYRB, New Yorker • “A masterpiece of black comedy.” —The Irish Times Samizdat marketing mailings to • “The novel moves with mad exuberance.”—The Independent booksellers. . . including a letter from Russian bookseller talking about the About the author importance of Bulgakov. MIKHAIL BULGAKOV was born in Kiev in 1891. Schooled as a doctor, he gave Bookseller newsletter up the practice of medicine in 1920 to devote himself to writing. He went on to craft Banned Book Week promotion some of the greatest novels in twentieth century Russian literature, including The Featured title at the Modern White Guard, Heart of a Dog, and The Master and Margarita. He died in Moscow of Language Association Conference kidney disease in 1940. Email blast to Russian Literature professors MICHAEL GLENNY (1927–1990) was one of the world’s leading translators of Email blast to Russian and Theatre Russian literature, translating the works of Gogol and Doestoevsky. But he was also professors famous for bringing the works of then-lesser-known dissident writers to the fore, Target writers who have covered including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Georgi Vladimov. He was the first person to Bulgakov in the past translate Mikhail Bulgakov into English.

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MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 35 TATTOO A PEPE CARVALHO INVESTIGATION MANUEL VÁZQUEZ MONTALBÁN Translated by Nick Caistor

Only Pepe Carvalho would use a tattoo saying “Born to Raise Hell in Hell” as evidence that the police are, once again, wrong

In a Spain still stifled under the rule of Franco, former CIA operative—and former Commnist—Pepe Carvalho has become so cynical he seems to care about nothing except food and sex. He’s even taken to burning the occasional book in his Barcelona apartment, just so he can have a fire going in the fireplace when he eats some bacalhao. But when he sees the cops bungling a case he’s hired to investigate—that of a body pulled out of the sea—he’s roused by a sense of injustice. The cops think the murder was connected to local drug dealers and brothels, and they begin raiding bars and harassing Barcelona’s women of the night. But Carvalho’s gut tells him something else is going on, and the cops are wrong once again. But as the cops stir up more and more trouble, and Carvalho gets more and more MELVILLE entwined, he’s only got one clue: a tattoo on the dead man’s body, read: “Born to Raise INTERNATIONAL CRIME Hell in Hell.”

ON SALE: Key points and quotes JULY 30 + One of the world’s most celebrated crime series. + This is the sixth Montalbán title to be published by Melville House: other titles 978-1-61219-208-6 $14.95 / $14.95 CAN. included The Angst-Ridden Executive, The Buenos Aires Quintet, Southern Seas, Off Side, and Murder in the Central Committee. CRIME FICTION PAPERBACK 1 1 Praise for Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and the Pepe Carvalho series: 288 PAGES, 5 ⁄2" × 8 ⁄4" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-209-3 • “Montalbán writes with authority and compassion and a le Carré-like sorrow.” NORTH AMERICA —Publishers Weekly • “If Graham Green, P.G. Wodehouse, Raymond Chandler, and Anthony Bourdain Marketing and publicity all sat together in front of a typewriter, the result would be Pepe Carvalho.” —Crimespree Targeting crime magazines, blogs, and columnists About the author and translator Advertising in Crimespree Magazine MANUEL Featured in the Melville House Born in Barcelona in 1939, poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist Crime Reader, to be distributed at VÁZQUEZ MONTALBÁN was one of Spain’s greatest writers. A well-known Bouchercon, Noircon 2012 and via gourmand, he also wrote often about food. He is best known for his crime series free ebook on Kindle and Nook featuring Pepe Carvalho, which won him international acclaim and numerous awards, Temporary “burning book” tattoos including the Planeta Prize and the International Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. given out at conventions, mailed to He died in 2003 in Hong Kong, on his way home from a book tour for what would be booksellers and librarians. his last Pepe Carvalho mystery. Targeted newsletter to mystery bookstores NICK CAISTOR’s translations from the Spanish and the Portuguese include works Montalbán series email blast by José Saramago and Paulo Coelho, and he is the author of Che Guevara: A Life. to librarians Title featured in Montalbán digital sampler, made available via Edelweiss and mhpbooks.com

36 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ A NOVELLA F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

One of the great writer’s most famous tales—A moving story of money and love, told in the form of a fairy tale

One of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the definitive novel on the idle rich of the 1920s Jazz age inThe Great Gatsby. Here, his preoccupation with moneyed society takes on a more fantastical form, in a playful yet sinister fairy tale about a family so wealthy they are entirely above the law. A young southerner, John T. Unger, goes home with a college classmate, Percy Washington, for summer vacation. Home is in Montana, where John discovers that the Washington family owns not a diamond mine, but a mountain consisting of one solid diamond. The Washingtons have gone to terrible lengths to conceal their secret EARLY ON SALE: from the world, including re-writing history, and they kill or imprison anyone who JANUARY 29 accidentally strays into their domain. John soon learns that he will be their next victim, unless he figures out how to escape the ranch in time. 978-1-61219-220-8 $10.00 / $10.00 CAN. Key points and quotes LITERARY FICTION PAPERBACK + Apropos for the economic crisis: Fitzgerald mocks the rich in his typically savage 64 PAGES, 5" × 7" style—here, they are tax-cheating, slave-holding murderers. EBOOK: 978-1-61219-221-5 + Great book for special sales accounts WORLD + Cross promotion with forthcoming Great Gatsby film starring Leonardo DiCaprio Marketing and publicity (Summer 2013)

Display at the American Library Praise for F. Scott Fitzgerald: Association, National Council of • “Of that triumvirate of hero-novelists who came of age in the ’20s, we may salute Teachers of English, Modern Language the big two-hearted pugilist and stand in awe of the mesmerist from Mississippi, Association, American Studies Association, Brooklyn Book Festival, but it’s the third one we mourn, the Jazz Age kid, our own Fitzgerald. . . At his best, Boston Book Festival, NEIBA he wrote nearer to the societal heart than either of his august contemporaries.” Newsletters and media timed to —E. L. Doctorow capitalize on Great Gatsby film release. Brochure that organizes the novellas About the author by century and location that unfolds F. SCOTT FITZGERALD was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1896, the namesake to a poster for librarians and teachers of his famous relative Francis Scott Key. He attended college at Princeton, where he began writing the novel that would become This Side of Paradise. In 1925, he published his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Other novels would follow, as well with short stories written for magazines; The Diamond as Big as the Ritzwas first published in The Smart Set in 1922. In the mid-’20s, Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda spent time in Paris, becoming close friends with Ernest Hemingway and other literary figures of the ALSO AVAILABLE: age. Perennially in financial difficulties, Fitzgerald finally moved to Hollywood in the MAY DAY 978-1-933633-43-5 ’30s to write for the movies, and he died there of a heart attack in 1940.

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 37 THE POOR CLARE ELIZABETH GASKELL

Rage and revenge mix with witchcraft and religion in a high Gothic tale of irredeemable love.

One of the most important writers of the Victorian era, especially notable as an era when it was difficult for female writers to be heard, Elizabeth Gaskell is best known as the author of the acclaimed social novels Cranford, Mary Barton, and North and South. But Gaskell also wrote in other genres. The Poor Clare is one of her Gothic tales, and it is the story of Bridget Fitzgerald, who unwittingly puts a curse on her own estranged daughter and the granddaughter she did not know existed. When she discovers that the curse has fallen on her own kin, Bridget submits herself to the rituals of an obscure religious sect, hoping to lift the curse. The Poor Clare sensitively treats issues of class and Catholic and Protestant religious tension in Victorian England, and is an innovative and thrilling gem from Gaskell’s wide-ranging oeuvre. ON SALE: AUGUST 13 Key points and quotes + Part of the Art of the Novella Series, an AIGA Design Award-winning set of short, 978-1-61219-218-5 $10.00 / $10.00 CAN. affordable editions + LITERARY FICTION A Melville House HybridBook, includes a digital anthology of additional readings PAPERBACK and illustrations 96 PAGES, 5" × 7" + Attractive edition printed on fine paperstock, with French flaps. EBOOK: 978-1-61219-219-2 WORLD Praise for The Poor Clare: • “Mrs. Gaskell has added to the number of those works of fiction—of which we can Marketing and publicity not perhaps count more than a score as having been produced in our own time— Display at Modern Language which will outlast the duration of their novelty and continue for years to come to Association Conference and the be read and relished for a higher order of merits.” —Henry James National Council of Teachers of English About the author Email blast to Gothic and Victorian ELIZABETH GASKELL (1810–1865) was one of the first writers to treat class and Literature professors labor relations in her fiction—often having characters speak in their local dialects, Brochure that organizes the novellas which was frowned upon at the time. Charles Dickens was a great fan of her work; by century and location that unfolds to a poster for librarians, teachers, he asked her for a story for the first issue of his journal,Household Words, and would and booksellers go on to publish many other stories and novellas by her. Gaskell was also close to the Feature in the Melville House Brontës and wrote a biography of Charlotte Brontë that did much to establish that Librarian newsletter (1,200 writer’s literary reputation. Gaskell’s Cranford was one of the most popular novels subscribers), bookseller newsletter of the Victorian era, and was recently adapted by the BBC, with Judi Dench in the starring role.

38 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM CARMEN PROSPER MÉRIMÉE Translated by George Burnham Ives

The swashbuckling story that inspired one of the world’s most beloved operas

The novella that was the basis for one of the most popular operas of all time, Prosper Mérimée’s Carmen is the exciting story of a nineteenth-century Spanish soldier who deserts his post to pursue the fiery gypsy beauty, Carmen—who seems to love him yet nonetheless seems to do everything in her power to escape him. But the opera was based on only a part of the larger adventure that is Carmen. For example, the story opens with Prosper Mérimée himself meeting a famous highwayman on the plains of Andalusia. Helping the dangerous robber—whom he feels is a kind of Robin Hood—he is rewarded with the story of the wild Gypsy woman he knew back in Seville. . . What follows is a swashbuckling tale to rival those of Zorro, with sword fights and ON SALE: horse chases and wild dancing and more—except, no mezzo-sopranos. AUGUST 13 Key points and quotes 978-1-61219-226-0 $10.00 / $10.00 CAN. + Instantly recognizable title LITERARY FICTION + The basis of one of the world’s most all-time popular (and most often turned into PAPERBACK film) operas—the opera, in fact, that people who don’t even like opera, like. 64 PAGES, 5" × 7" + Even fans of the opera probably don’t know it’s based on a book. EBOOK: 978-1-61219-227-7 + WORLD The book is even more exciting than the opera, filled with sword fights and horse chases and lots of Zorro-like action—and more of the story that didn’t fit into Marketing and publicity the opera. Promotion in opera houses that stage About the author Carmen in cities throughout the United States PROSPER MÉRIMÉE (1803–1870) was a French writer, historian, and archeologist. Bookstores selling 20 copies will As an official in the French government (he was the inspector-general of historical receive a performance by an opera monuments) he wrote numerous official works about French archeological and singer in New York City stores, and architectural history. In this capacity he famously made a major contribution to the a recorded aria with a personalized history of medieval art by discovering, along with his friend the writer George Sand, message for stores across the country The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries. Brochure that organizes the novellas Mérimée also wrote numerous plays and stories, and in particular mysteries, but by century and location that unfolds to a poster for librarians, teachers, he is best known for his novella Carmen, the basis of one of the world’s most famous and booksellers operas: Georges Bizet’s Carmen.

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM 39 THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET EDGAR ALLAN POE

Poe’s only novella is an unusual work for the author: A thrilling sea adventure that turns increasingly bizarre

Ever since its first appearance in 1838, Edgar Allan Poe’s sole novella—the only work of long fiction that he ever wrote—has disturbed and fascinated readers. Drawing from actual explorers’ journals, he combined a classic sea adventure with the kind of psychological terror and ominous phenomena for which he was so justly famous. The book tells the tale of sixteen-year-old Arthur Gordon Pym, who, eager for an adventure, stows away on a whaling ship. But when a mutiny occurs, he finds himself fighting for his life, as the ship sails through terrifying conditions off toward the South Pole. Along the way, Arthur will encounter a ship-wreck and cannibalism; a hostile ON SALE: tribe on a strange island where the color white doesn’t exist; a strange, all-pervasive AUGUST 13 mist; and even an apparition or two . . . 978-1-61219-222-2 The book has also had one of the most wide-ranging influences of any in American $12.00 / $12.00 CAN. literature: No less than Herman Melville, Jules Verne, H.P. Lovecraft and Georges LITERARY FICTION Perec have cited its influence, while Jorge Luis Borges—who called Poe a big influence PAPERBACK in general—called this Poe’s best book. 192 PAGES, 5" × 7" EBOOK: 978-1-61219-223-9 Key points and quotes WORLD + Readers will be surprised to learn Poe, renowned as a poet and short story writer, Marketing and publicity wrote a novella. + Has been an inspiration to many writers over the years, including Melville, Verne, Promoted as a Endowment for the Arts Big Read Selection Baudelaire, and Lovecraft. Recently, young writer Mat Johnson reworked the novel as a tale about racial politics, in Pym (Spiegel & Grau, 2011). Special outreach to One City One + Read programs and libraries who A great sea story, in the vein of Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, and Moby Dick receive funding for Edgar Allan Poe Praise for Edgar Allan Poe: programming • “Poe’s weird tales are alive in a manner that few others can ever hope to be.” Display at the American Library —H. P. Lovecraft Association, National Council of Teachers of English, Modern • “In him, American literature is anchored, in him alone, on solid ground.” Language Association, American —William Carlos Williams Studies Association, Brooklyn Book Festival, Boston Book Festival, NEIBA, About the author Bouchercon 2013 EDGAR ALLAN POE Bookseller newsletter, mystery store (1809–1849) was one of the greatest 19th-century American newsletter. Emphasis on the necessity writers. Born in Boston, his life was marked by poverty, alcoholism, critical failure, for a good edition of this classic work and a tragic marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. He is known for his Mailings to libraries at the south poetry, especially “The Raven,” and his macabre short stories, including “The Fall of pole, and to booksellers who send the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” He is also considered the inventor of convincing imitations of being at the the detective story. He died at the age of 40 in Baltimore, of unknown causes. south pole. Brochure that organizes the novellas by century and location that unfolds to a poster for librarians, teachers, and booksellers

40 MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | MHPBOOKS.COM THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP A NOVELLA CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The further adventures of Roger Mifflin, bookseller

“When you sell a man a book,” says Roger Mifflin, the protagonist of this classic novella, “you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.” Mifflin—whom we first meet in Morley’sParnassus on Wheels—is an itinerant bookseller, ensconced in literary Brooklyn. “If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages,” he advises, “it is to be hoped you may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a very remarkable bookshop.” The shop, haunted by “the ghosts of all great literature,” provides the alluring setting for this suspenseful novella. Strange things are happening: books disappear and reappear, suspicious characters lurk, and the distant First World War may be encroaching even on the peaceful old brownstone where the shop makes it home. A ON SALE: thoroughly entertaining tribute to the bookseller’s art, and one of the most beloved AUGUST 13 bookish novels of all time. 978-1-61219-224-6 $12.00 / $12.00 CAN. Key points and quotes LITERARY FICTION + First published in 1919 PAPERBACK + The prequel,Parnassus on Wheels, is also available from Melville House 192 PAGES, 5" 7" × + EBOOK: 978-1-61219-225-3 Part of the Art of the Novella Series, an AIGA Design Award-winning set of short, WORLD affordable editions + A Melville House HybridBook, includes a digital anthology of additional readings Marketing and publicity and illustrations + Attractive edition printed on fine paper stock, with French flaps Brooklyn tour of places mentioned in the book with booksellers and literature lovers About the author Goodreads giveaway CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1890–1957), born in Haverford, PA, had a long career Academic displays at ALA, National in publishing and journalism, working at various times for Doubleday, the Ladies’ Council of Teaches of English, MLA, Home Journal, and the New York Evening Post. He was a founder of the Saturday American Studies Association, Review of Literature and of the Baker Street Irregulars, and one of the first judges Brooklyn and Boston book festivals, and NEIBA of Book-of-the-Month Club. A prolific writer, Morley is best known for his racy Feature in the Melville House bestseller Kitty Foyle, and the pair of novels following the adventures of bookseller Librarian Newsletter (1,200 Roger Mifflin,Parnassus on Wheels (also available from Melville House) and The subscribers), bookseller newsletter Haunted Bookshop. Brochure that organizes the novellas by century and location that unfolds to a poster for librarians, teachers, and booksellers

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