About
Melville House Publishing is an independent publishing house born out of the book blog MobyLives and founded in Hoboken, New Jersey, which is also known as the Left Bank of New York City, and which is where Marlon Brando said to Eve Marie Saint (in "On the Waterfront," which was shot in Hoboken), "Come on, I'll walk you home. There are a lot of guys around here with only one thing on their mind." As it turns out, what's on the mind of a lot of those men -- and local women, too -- is good, solid literature, especially literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry. In an amazing coincidence, this is exactly what Melville House provides. Except now it provides it from an entirely new location -- Brooklyn. Yes, the Real Left Bank. Well, except for the Other Real Left Bank, of course. We're in the neighborhood known as DUMBO, to be exact. With a spiffy bookshop to boot. So, to review, that's DUMBO, D-U-M-B-O, as in Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. Remember the "O," or it's just dumb. And where would you be without the O? In the river, that's where.