Harpercollins imprint: 10661 books
Smothered in Hugs
Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
“In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper’s books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe.” —New York Times Book Review
“His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles...
A Dream Deferred
The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes a new essay collection that tells the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today. In A Dream Deferred Shelby Steele argues that a second betrayal of black freedom in the United States--the first...
by Michael Perry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloose past to write from a perspective that merges the local with the global.
Ranging across subjects...
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
“Schama is a masterful stylist and storyteller.”
—Boston Globe
“A writer of gorgeous prose.”
—Washington Post
The ever erudite, always delightfully curious Simon Schama returns with Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, a wonderful compendium of thirty provocative, witty, enlightening,...
by Terry Castle
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
“[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today.” —Susan Sontag
From one of America’s most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical...
Border-Line Personalities
A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and Cultural Shifting
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why, in the minds of most Americans, are Latinas still thought of as maids, seductresses, and booty-shaking salsa divas?
Never has the concept of Latina identity been more relevant. Also, never has there been a new generation of Latinas so ready to say what they mean and even criticize the...
by Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer, Robin Gibbs Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer’s correspondence.
The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder was a born storyteller and dramatist—rare...
The Secret Currency of Love
The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Sex & The City meets The Wall Street Journal....Juicy, smart, dramatic and insightful—an addictive read.”
—Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties
In The Secret Currency of Love, edited by Hilary Black, acclaimed,...
by Charles Bukowski
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski—America's "Ultimate Outsider"
Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation
Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted
Insights into...
More Mirth of a Nation
The Best Contemporary Humor
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
More seriously funny writing from American's most trusted humor anthology
Witty, wise, and just plain wonderful, the inaugural volume of this biennial, Mirth of a Nation, ensured a place for the best contemporary humor writing in the country. And with this second treasury, Michael J. Rosen has once...
Heaven's Coast
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The year is 1989 and Mark Doty's life has reached a state of enviable equilibrium. His reputation as a poet of formidable talent is growing, he enjoys his work as a college professor and, perhaps most importantly, he is deeply in love with his partner of many years, Wally Roberts. The harmonious existence...
The Collected Prose
1948-1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
“One of the finest and most original writers…and one of the greatest Polish writers of [the 20th] century. [Herbert] is a figure comparable to, say, T. S. Eliot or W. H. Auden.”
—Edward Hirsch, The New Yorker
Polish essayist, poet, and spiritual leader of his nation’s...
Two Histories of England
By Jane Austen and Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In these two forgotten gems of English literature, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens offer delightful, irreverent histories of their native land.
When she was only sixteen years old, Jane Austen composed her bitingly satirical History of England for performance in her family's drawingroom....
The Leisure Seeker
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The unforgettable cross country journey of a runaway couple in their twilight years determined to meet the end of all roads on their own terms—a major motion picture from Sony Pictures Classics starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland.
The Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more...