Melville House Publishing is an American independent publisher based in Brooklyn, New York City, publishing literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The company was founded in 2001 in Hoboken, New Jersey, and named in honor of author Herman Melville. It has a reputation as an "activist press" of left-leaning books, known for "crashing" pivotal public documents, as well as for publishing literary fiction, debut authors, and socially engaged non-fiction.Wikipedia →