Mark Harris, Author Permanent Press (NY) $24.95 (424p) ISBN 978-0-933256-75-0
Somewhat like Carl Sandburg's Lincoln , which, though based on enormous research, was essentially a poetic interpretation, Harris's ( Wake Up, Stupid ) account of another citizen of Springfield, Ill., is more notable for its novelistic approach and...
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Mark Harris, Author Warner Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-36211-5
In a poignant coming-of-age novel set in the second quarter of this century, the narrator recalls his younger brother, Speed, whose athletic and intellectual abilities were undermined by a disabling stutter. ``True to period details and his narrator'
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Mark Harris, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (285p) ISBN 978-1-55611-180-8
Harris--novelist ( Bang the Drum Slowly ), screenwriter and literature professor at the University of Arizona--sets this accomplished coming-of-age novel with its strong autobiographical element in a New York City suburb in the second quarter of...
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Mark Harris, Author Dutton Books $21 (224p) ISBN 978-1-55611-397-0
Novels about writers are relatively rare, no doubt because writing lacks the obvious drama of police work for instance, or of the law. Novels about writers in which the drama turns on the act of writing--as opposed to, say, a fan's revenge, as in...
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Mark Harris, Author Dutton Books $21.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-55611-398-7
In this collection of delightful pieces, reprinted from the New York Times , Sports Illustrated , etc., Harris recalls that ``baseball made me a fan by telling me truths about myself.'' Here he shares those truths by showing us the simple pleasures...
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Mark Harris, Author, Jon Surgal, Introduction by Bison Books $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8032-7319-1
In a witty, buoyant collection, Harris (Bang the Drum Slowly) turns away from the favorite topic of his novels--baseball--and proves himself a masterful diagnostician of the heart and mind. Told with black humor, the title story concerns a crackpot...
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Mark Harris, Author . Scribner $24 (193p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7768-6
Harris's case for an eco-friendly burial is also an argument for a graceful and productive afterlife. Avoiding embalming keeps funeral waste out of our sewers, while burial in a shroud or cardboard coffin saves trees; these approaches can also...
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Mark Harris, Author . Penguin Press $27.95 (490p) ISBN 978-1-59420-152-3
While one might think that the films discussed in this book have been thoroughly plumbed (The Graduate
; Bonnie and Clyde
; In the Heat of the Night
; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
), Entertainment Weekly
writer Harris offers his take in this
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Mark Harris, Author, Lloyd James, Read by , read by Lloyd James. Tantor Audio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0625-7
With meticulous research and a masterful blending of information, Harris delivers a detailed and intriguing exploration into the significance of the five films nominated in 1968 as Best Picture for the Oscars (Bonnie and Clyde
, Doctor Dolittle
,...
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Mark Harris. Penguin Press, $29.95 (508p) ISBN 978-1-59420-430-2
American filmmakers undergo their baptism of fire in this insightful if sometimes chaotic war saga. Journalist Harris (Pictures at a Revolution) profiles five leading directors—John Ford, Frank Capra, William Wyler, John Huston, and George Stevens—wh
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Mark Harris. Penguin Press, $35 (688p) ISBN 978-0-399-56224-2
Harris (Five Came Back) delivers an entertaining portrait of actor, director, and producer Mike Nichols in this bracingly candid biography. Drawing primarily on interviews conducted by himself and others, Harris captures the award-winner’s “precision
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