Scribner imprint: 1661 books
The Awe-Inspiring Beauty of Tom Cruise's Shattered, Troll-like Face
An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television, this essay is about modern films and reality.
by Sarah Ban Breathnach, Friends
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
The Authentic Journey Continues -- for Women to Understand Men, and for Men to Understand Themselves.
China, Inc.
How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2005
The updated edition of journalist Ted C. Fishman's bestselling explanation of how China is rapidly becoming a global industrial superpower and how the American economy is challenged by this new reality.
China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering the...
The Opposite of Loneliness
Essays and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan’s posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories “sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
Marina Keegan’s star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from...
Farewell
A Memoir of a Texas Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 1999
For more than five decades, Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town," has chronicled with compassion and acuity the changes in American life -- both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and his original screenplay Tender Mercies earned him Academy Awards....
Any Place I Hang My Hat
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
No matter which side of the nature/nurture debate you're on, Amy Lincoln's prospects do not look good. Her mother abandoned her when she was ten months old (just a couple of months after Amy's father went off to serve his first prison term), leaving her in the care of Grandma Lil, who shoplifts dinner...
Cooking as Fast as I Can
A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
“Affecting….as warm and comforting as a home-cooked meal” (People), a no-holds-barred memoir on Southern life, Greek heritage, same sex marriage—and the meals that have shaped her memories—from the Food Network star and first female winner of Iron Chef, Cat Cora.
Before she became...
The American Way of Eating
Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover journalism in the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed that fully investigates our food system to explain what keeps Americans from eating well—and what we can do about it.
When award-winning (and working-class) journalist...
Liar's Candle
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In this brilliant debut thriller, reminiscent of the works of John le Carre and Olen Steinhauer and infused with the authenticity of the author’s travels, a young American State Department intern based in Turkey becomes “the woman who knows too much” and is marked for death.
Penny Kessler,...
As They See 'Em
A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are doing an easy job badly. Millions of American baseball fans are wrong.
As They See 'Em is an insider's look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group...
Football
An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Eating the Dinosaur and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Sports, this essay is about football.
Dropping the Ball
Baseball's Troubles and How We Can and Must Solve Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
**HALL OF FAMER DAVE WINFIELD:
"THE GAME I LOVE IS HURTING."**
Revenue has never been higher, attendance has never been better, and baseball has never had a stronger international presence. Yet, with all of the prosperity, the game has rarely faced more significant problems, both in...
Season of Saturdays
A History of College Football in 14 Games
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
From an award-winning sports journalist and college football expert: “A beautifully written mix of memoir and reportage that tracks college ball through fourteen key games, giving depth and meaning to all” (Sports Illustrated), now with a new Afterword about the first ever College Football Playoff.
Every...
The Fire This Time
A New Generation Speaks about Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
A surprise New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation—are “thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that words...