Author: Raj Patel
Publisher: Melville House
Keywords: food, system, world, battle, starved, hidden, stuffed
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-04-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1933633492
ISBN-13: 9781933633497

“One of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice.”—Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock DoctrineHalf the world is malnourished, the other half obese—both symptoms of the corporate food monopoly. To show how a few powerful distributors control the health of the entire world, Raj Patel conducts a global investigation, traveling from the “green deserts” of Brazil and protester-packed streets of South Korea to bankrupt Ugandan coffee farms and barren fields of India. What

Author: Tao Li
Publisher: Melville House
Keywords: poetry, therapy, behavioral, cognitive
Number of Pages: 101
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1933633484
ISBN-13: 9781933633480

"A revolutionary."-The Stranger"Stimulating and exciting."-The San Francisco Bay Guardian"Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass-from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious."-Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than YouTao Lin-author of the underground sensation Eeeee Eee Eeee-continues his deadpan existential-slapstick style with poems featuring titles such as: "I will learn to love a person and then I will teach you and then we will know" and

Author: Alejandro Zambra
Publisher: Melville House
Keywords: novella, art, contemporary, bonsai
Number of Pages: 90
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 193363362X
ISBN-13: 9781933633626

Winner of Chile’s Literary Critics’ Award for Best Novel"One of the greatest literary events of recent years."-Alfonso Cortínez, Las Últimas Noticias"An unclassifiable object of unusual beauty . . . one of the best Chilean novels of recent times."-David Lacalle, CapitalHailed as a great Latin American literary event, this stylistically innovative, elliptically told tale of a young man and his love who mysteriously disappears is, as the narrator tells us, "a simple story that becomes complicated."Through both the distance and closeness of these young lovers, Alejandro Zambra brill

Author: Paul Berman
Publisher: Melville House
Keywords: intellectuals, flight
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-04-27
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1933633514
ISBN-13: 9781933633510

Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie—and writers around the world instinctively rallied to Rushdie’s defense. Today, according to writer Paul Berman, “Rushdie has metastasized into an entire social class”—an ever-growing group of sharp-tongued critics of Islamist extremism, especially critics from Muslim backgrounds, who survive only because of pseudonyms and police protection. And yet, instead of being applauded, the Rushdies of today (people like Ayan Hirsi Ali and Ibn Warraq) often find themselves dismissed as “strident” or as no

Author: Tao Lin
Publisher: Melville House
Keywords: bed
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1933633263
ISBN-13: 9781933633268

"Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass — from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious."—Miranda JulyA startlingly original voice announces itself immediately in this collection of award-winning stories. Tao Lin’s absorbing writing style matches a minimalist prose with a lyric sensibility, poignant compassion with a hysterical sense of humor, bitter reality with enchanting fantasy, and youthful outlandishness with a gentle, mature perceptiveness—all

Author: Kitty Burns Florey
Publisher: Melville House
Keywords: handwriting, rise, scribble, script
Number of Pages: 225
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1933633670
ISBN-13: 9781933633671

“Florey writes with verve.”—Slate.com“Florey . . . rattles off crackling prose in a no-nonsense voice.”—The San Diego Union-TribuneSteeped in the Palmer Method of handwriting she learned in Catholic school, Kitty Burns Florey is a self-confessed “penmanship nut” who loves the act of taking pen to paper. So when she discovered that schools today forego handwriting drills in favor of teaching something called keyboarding, it gave her pause: “There is a widespread belief that, in a digital world, forming letters on paper with a pen is pointless and obsolete,” she says, “and

Author: B.R. Myers
Publisher: Melville House
Keywords: themselves, matters, koreans, north, race, cleanest
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2010-01-26
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1933633913
ISBN-13: 9781933633916

Understanding North Korea through its propaganda What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them?Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean worldview. Drawing on extensive research into the regime’s domestic propaganda, including films, romance novels and other artifacts of the personality cult, Myers analyzes each of the country’s official myths in turn—from the notion of Koreans’ unique moral purity, to the myth of an America quaking in terror