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Melville House co-publisher Dennis Johnson talked about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the independent publishing industry with Jenn Risko, John Mutter, and Bob Gray of Shelf Awar…

Melville House co-publisher Dennis Johnson led a discussion with Jessica Bagnulo, co-owner of Greenlight Bookstore, and Johnny Temple, publisher at Akashic Books, about the impact of the cor…

Jamie Bartlett talked about his book, The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld, about the digital underworld where websites like Silk Road and the Assassination Market operate and Bitcoin…

Jon Gnarr talked about his book, Gnarr!: How I Became the Mayor of a Large City in Iceland and Changed the World, in which he discusses the events that led to the economic collapse in Icelan…

Curtis White talked about his book, The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers, in which he argues that authors like Jonah Lehrer, Richard Dawkins, and Chris…

Iranian author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi talked about the struggle to publish even non-politically motivated books in Iran (where he still lives) and the banning of his work by Iranian authorities…

David Graeber talked about the history of debt and its impact in the world over thousands of years. During this event from Melville House Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York, Professor Graeber w…

A panel discussion on publishing’s future was held with independent publishers. They talked about their new companies and presented their thoughts on how publishing could change in the era o…

Trevor Paglen talked about his I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World, published by Melville House. In his book Trevor Paglen…

Independent publishers talked about publishing contemporary political books and the future of independent publishing in general. They discussed the differing objectives of independent publis…