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Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

⚔️📚 What We Do Now is out this week! “This offers hope,” @publisherswkly. Bold, rigorous essays by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @doctorow.pluralistic.net, @harshawalia.bsky.social, @staceyabrams.com, @kimkelly.bsky.social, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and more. new 🛠️⚔️❤️ bit.ly/what-we-do-now ❤️⚔️🛠️ new

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My episode with Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social where we talk about what happened in Ceuta and why anti-immigrant narratives are so crucial to fascism. open.spotify.com/episode/3Hee...

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After Ceuta

It Could Happen Here · Episode

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whoa the protests in Madrid have been so strong that they managed to get the 87-year-old Maricarmen back in her home after being evicted!

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wrote a short weird little book about far-right death threats against me + my fam, fleeing our home, Trumpism, + my experience as a Jew amidst the resurgence of fascism + genocide in Gaza Coming January 2027 from @melvillehouse.bsky.social mhpbooks.com/books/unpunc... #NoPasarán #FreePalestine

“Unpunctuated Death threats: Notes from a fascist present. Author of Antifa Mark Bray.” Text on a black and white image of the author from the chin down.

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Another Education Is Possible @anothereducation.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In our latest episode, @mark-bray.bsky.social joins the podcast to discuss Spanish anarchist and educator Francisco Ferrer, the Modern School that Ferrer started in Barcelona in the early 1900s, and the way Ferrer's work continues to resonate (or doesn't) with current radical education projects.

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 16/09/2026

“My first stories for my introductory and intermediate workshops were written on this machine…using a keyboard whose particular clicks and clacks became wedded to the experience,” writes Afsheen Farhadi, author of False Prophet (@melvillehouse.bsky.social). More: at.pw.org/WRFarhadi

An author photo of Afsheen Farhadi on the right and the Writers Recommend graphic on the left.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Once again I have waited for the very end of #WITmonth to drop some women in translation content. I kept wanting an easy place to send people to make it easy for them to buy the books I am yelling about, so I spent hours curating a list on bookshop.

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Women in Translation

recs for #WomenInTranslationMonth (also #WITmonth) and beyond!

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Curtis White co-founded FC2 in 1989, and his newest book, ON RESISTANCE: A MANIFESTO, available now from @melvillehouse.bsky.social , includes reflections on Fiction Collective and FC2 among other organs of resistance! Read an excerpt! fc2.org/the-fiction-...

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Happy Pub day to ON RESISTANCE: A MANIFESTO (@melvillehouse.bsky.social) by Curtis White, one of our founders ! mhpbooks.com/books/on-res...

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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Simon Paré-Poupart's TRASH! (@melvillehouse.bsky.social) helps readers see a wider, richer, more complex world, one they often willfully ignore, the mark of all good literature: turnedpagereview.substack.com/p/review-of-...

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Review of Trash! A Garbageman’s Story by Simon Paré-Poupart

Melville House, 2026

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Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Summer Sale Boat ⛵️📚🤑 has appeared ! All paperback and hardcover books are 30% off on our website TODAY ONLY, until 11:59 pm PST. ➡️ mhpbooks.com

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Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Summer Sale Boat ⛵️📚🤑 has appeared ! All paperback and hardcover books are 30% off on our website TODAY ONLY, until 11:59 pm PST. ➡️ mhpbooks.com

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Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There on the horizon…could it be…yes....the Sale Boat! ⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚 Wednesday, July 15 (tomorrow), all books on our site are 30% off. That means most titles are going for under $20, and many for less than $15.

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Annabookbel @annabookbel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Reading in bed with Harry... Latest from the @melvillehouse.bsky.social Futures series

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Punctured Lines @puncturedlines.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Read an excerpt from Svetlana Satchkova’s English-language debut, THE UNDEAD: A Novel of Modern Russia, published earlier this year by @melvillehouse.bsky.social. A story of an aspiring Moscow filmmaker, who makes an arthouse horror movie and then finds herself arrested and prosecuted.

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"Exactly what the title states...simply a garbageman’s story." Amelia Aldred's review of “Trash: A Garbageman's Story” by Simon Paré-Poupart (@melvillehouse.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/06/19/t...

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“Trash! A Garbageman’s Story” Tells Readers to Throw Away Polite Fictions - Chicago Review of Books

Our review of Simon Paré-Poupart's new book, "Trash! A Garbageman's Story"

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Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

｡‧˚ʚ❤️🗑️❤️ɞ˚‧｡⋆ TRASH! ｡‧˚ʚ❤️🗑️❤️ɞ˚‧｡ A Garbageman’s Story by Simon Paré-Poupart is out today. “Imagine if Anthony Bourdain was your garbage man,” the @latimes.com said when they selected it as a 2026 Most Anticipated Summer Read.

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Longreads @longreads.com · 15/06/2026

"If you find your trash can lying in your bed of tulips, assume your garbageman is not a happy camper." —Simon Paré-Poupart for @harpers.bsky.social

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The Conscience of the City, by Simon Paré-Poupart, Translated by Pablo Strauss

On the life of the garbageman

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Echoes of Orwell with good swearing... www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/b...

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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“In two decades, I’ve handled tens of thousands of tons of trash, and the looks I get along my route suggest that people sometimes mistake me for the garbage I handle.” —Simon Paré-Poupart

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The Conscience of the City, by Simon Paré-Poupart, Translated by Pablo Strauss

On the life of the garbageman

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I'm currently reading Trash! A Garbageman's Story by Simon Paré-Poupart; translated by Pablo Strauss. Due out from @melvillehouse.bsky.social this month.

A galley of Trash! The cover features a photograph of the author hefting bags of garbage.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"Soco" picks blueberries in the Visalia area. He is paid piece rate - earning $8 for a 24lb bucket. "What I earn depends heavily on the amount of fruit on the bush. Some days I make decent money. But there are other days that I don't even make minimum wage." #WeFeedYou

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Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Quite honoured by this wonderful, thoughtful review of my book by Claire Potter.

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Looking forward to this #AAPI month event @oaklibrary.bsky.social! Part book talk, part oral history workshop, I will discuss how to elicit stories from loved ones, like my grandmother. The interviews I conducted with her before she died form the heart of #StarryField. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

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Southern Review of Books @southrevbooks.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"Beyond the pain and the characters who bear it, this book is a commentary on the ways America abandons its people to fend for themselves." @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social reviews A HISTORY OF HEARTACHE by Patrick Strickland. @melvillehouse.bsky.social southernreviewofbooks.com/2026/04/15/a...

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“A History of Heartache” Is a World Where No Saviors Are Coming

Bleak, clear-eyed, abrasive, and thoughtful stories about the forgotten folks of East Texas.

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Patrick Strickland @patrickobrienstrickland.com · 14/04/2026

Stoked that my new story collection, A HISTORY OF HEARTACHE, made this list of April's best southern books. It's out April 21 with @melvillehouse.bsky.social Pre-order: bookshop.org/a/121591/978...

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Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Ahead of publication next week my book baby arrived into my arms & it is so beautiful. 💫💫 Thanks to the team at @melvillehouse.bsky.social especially my whiz of an editor Michelle Capone! I love the cover and the sparkly pink beneath.

red headed woman looking happy and a little startled as she holds the book she has written

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Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"Life and literary legacy." Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @rosavcampbell.bsky.social & @melvillehouse.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I would love it if there was more academic articles and more journalism and more literary essays with swearing in them.

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Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

as a socialist feminist nerd having my book included in the @nymag.com approval matrix this week is obviously the coolest thing that has ever happened to me. wtf???? nymag.com/article/the-...

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The Approval Matrix: Kristi Noem, Upstaged Again

Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 03/04/2026

“...the pages capture the terrifying reality of living in an increasingly totalitarian state.” @apartan.bsky.social reviews Svetlana Satchkova’s The Undead (@melvillehouse.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/kI009OO

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Spooky rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 28/02/2026

This afternoon’s fun thing: Jude Doyle reading from his book DILF (Did I Leave Feminism), from the Gender as Change chapter.

Jude Doyle, at a microphone seated just inside a window, reading from his book.

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 31/03/2026

"...we are mimetic creatures, ever enamored of our own reflections." Writing A Series of Trojan Horses into a Novel: @egjames.bsky.social interviews @joukovsky.bsky.social about Medium Rare (@melvillehouse.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/R4cwexw

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Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

@joukovsky.bsky.social worked on this story for years... and.... Kalshi just.... tweeted it out.

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Civilian Reader @civilianreader.com · 15/03/2026

Halfway through MEDIUM RARE by A. Natasha Joukovsky… mhpbooks.com/books/medium... Enjoying it. Interesting premise, well-executed so far. Amusing, quite sharply observed. Out now, published by @melvillehouse.bsky.social.

Cover for A. Natasha Joukovksy’s MEDIUM RARE — a classical/biblical painting of a (rather melodramatic) nude gentleman falling towards a basketball hoop. Plus title and author information.

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Revised Spring 2026 event schedule: Hawaii with my Radical Ahjumma crew at the AAAS conference, da Shop books and U of HI Manoa. Bay Area events: revision panel sponsored by @litquake.org, Kepler's workshop on family stories & AAPI month talk at my hometown library. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

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Patrick Strickland @patrickobrienstrickland.com · 28/02/2026

I am downright stoked to get such a generous and positive review from Publishers Weekly for this story collection I’ve spent six, seven years chipping away at. ‘A History of Heartache’ is out April 21 with @melvillehouse.bsky.social — www.publishersweekly.com/9781685892357

Stories of addiction and underemployment feature in the bare-knuckled fiction debut from journalist Strickland (You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave). The unnamed narrator of the title entry, a high school senior, dreams about heading to California from his hometown in north Texas, leaving behind his alcoholic mother and memories of his older brother who died at age 16 from a heroin overdose. In “Mockingbirds,” a former teacher, now mopping floors at an abortion clinic, is hounded by an anti-abortion protester intent on making him into a villain online. In “Rent Money,” a woman in her early 20s comes to terms with the shortcomings of her 41-year-old husband, a heavy-drinking slumlord for “meth monsters” who tries to goad her into collecting rent, a far cry from the “clean, simple life” he promised her when they got married five years earlier. Strickland laces his hardscrabble scenes with lyricism, as in “Screaming East on I-10,” when a young drifter living alongside crack addicts describes taking a hit of the drug, then notices how “night bruises the sky purple.” In each piece, grief underscores the characters’ recklessness, imbuing the collection with an unsentimental but tender emotional register. Strickland’s humane depictions of people living on the margins acknowledge the forces that shape them.

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A reader recommendation for Americans to read 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned'. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696846... @melvillehouse.bsky.social

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Nicole Nelson @nnelson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I am so excited to share this announcement about my novel FAMILY LANGUAGE, coming in November 2026. With enormous thanks to Michelle Capone, @melvillehouse.bsky.social, and especially @jennaschmenna.bsky.social!

An announcement from Publishers Marketplace stating that Nicole's debut novel, FAMILY LANGUAGE, will be published by Melville House in November 2026.

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Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Over the moon 🌙 that 'The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared' received a starred review from Publishers Weekly! 🌟 🔭 🌃 www.publishersweekly.com/9781685892319

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The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report by Rosa Campbell

Historian Campbell debuts with a revelatory biography of sex researcher Shere Hite (1942–2020), best known for her 1976 publicat...

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Farm workers in solidarity with Minnesota #IceOut

Farm worker in a grape vineyard holding a sign saying: Campesinos con Minnesota. ¡Viva la huelga!

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

"Just thinking about how this incredible manufacturing center and major U.S. city got to this point, I got interested in Detroit." Stephen Nathans-Kelly's interview with John Sayles on "Crucible” (@melvillehouse.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/01/22/c...

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Motor City Burning: A Conversation with John Sayles about “Crucible” - Chicago Review of Books

An interview with John Sayles about his new book, "Crucible."

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Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

total honour that 'The Book That Taught The World to Orgasm and then Disappeared' is included in the history section! 📚 👀 @melvillehouse.bsky.social

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