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collected poetry related to the event and published it as a book to great success, which launched the company. They intended Melville to be a low volume boutique that specializes in poetry and "highly literary" novels issuing less than six a year. The company has a reputation as a "activist press"
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and became known for works of "political reportage with a leftist streak". Johnson once said they formed the company with the notion of "getting Bush out of office" in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
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of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The company was founded in 2001 and is run by the husband-and-wife team of Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians in
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The company was founded by husband-and-wife team of Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians. Johnson wrote a blog called "MobyLives" and after the
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Publishing the Torture Report cemented their reputation as a self-described 'activist publishing company.'
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Melville House publishes books in several series. These include the Art of the Novella Series, which
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called an "ongoing celebration of the form", and which includes classics by
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press release dated February 6, 2007. Accessed October 24, 2007.
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Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing
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in just 19 days; and later that year, an edition of the
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Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture
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Melville House Publishing
United States
Brooklyn
New York
Penguin Random House
Books
Imprints
Stop Smiling
www.mhpbooks.com
publisher
Hoboken, New Jersey
Herman Melville

Brooklyn
9/11 attacks
Association of American Publishers
Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing
AIGA
Dumbo, Brooklyn
The Atlantic
Miguel de Cervantes
Anton Chekhov
Virginia Woolf
Ernest Hemingway
Philip K. Dick
Nora Ephron
Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture
Pope Francis
Laudato si'
The Making of Donald Trump

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