Crown Archetype imprint: 296 books
Sit, Ubu, Sit
How I went from Brooklyn to Hollywood with the same woman, the same dog, and a lot less hair
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
A sports-crazed kid from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Gary David Goldberg never imagined he’d end up in Hollywood, let alone make it big there. But as a twenty-five-year-old waiter in Greenwich Village he met Diana, the love of his life; followed her out to Northern California; then moved in and never...
Rock and Roll Cage Match
Music's Greatest Rivalries, Decided
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Music defines us. To return the favor, we’ll stick up with zealous passion for the performers and bands that we love . . . and heap aspersions and ridicule upon people who dare to place their allegiances above our own. In Rock and Roll Cage Match, today’s leading cultural critics, humorists, music...
Are You Anybody?
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
You know him from his breakout role as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, his outrageous turn as George and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development, and his Emmy Award-winning performance as Maura Pfefferman on Transparent. A Broadway star, a television legend, an accomplished screen actor whose...
by Olivia de Havilland
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Back in print for the first time in decades—and featuring a new interview with the author, in celebration of her centennial birthday—the delectable escapades of Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland, who fell in love with a Frenchman—and then became a Parisian
In 1953, Olivia de Havilland—already...
Warren Beatty
A Private Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
“Whatever you have read or heard about me through articles or gossip, forget it. I am nothing like that Warren Beatty. I am nothing like what you have read.” —Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty guarded his privacy even before he became a movie star, when he burst onto the screen in 1961 as the...
The Jerusalem Syndrome
My Life as a Reluctant Messiah
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
By the author of Attempting Normal and host of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, The Jerusalem Syndrome isThe Gospel according to Maron: a spiritual memoir of your average hyperintelligent, ultraneurotic, superhip Jewish standup comedian and seeker.
The Jerusalem Syndrome is a genuine psychological...
Don't Let My Mama Read This
A Southern Fried Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Meet Hadjii.
He’s got a loving family, a taste for making trouble, and a wicked sense of humor. His first book, Don’t Let My Mama Read This, is a rarity—an upbeat memoir about a blessedly normal childhood written by a natural-born storyteller. In it, he offers a warm, witty look at the...
Chasing Hepburn
A Memoir of Shanghai, Hollywood, and a Chinese Family's Fight for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Chasing Hepburn is the story of the Lee family—a saga spanning four generations, two continents, and a century and a half of Chinese history. In the masterful hands of acclaimed author Gus Lee, his ancestors’ stories spring vividly to life in a memoir with all the richness of great fiction.
From...
Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet
More Commentary by NPR's Cowboy Poet & Former Large Animal Veterinarian
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Baxter Black is “good, but indescribably weird,” observes the Dallas Morning News. “The dean of cowboy bards, and the Art Buchwald of the Stetson-and-Levi’s crowd,” raves the Christian Science Monitor. “Mark Twain served up with a little Groucho Marx,” proclaims the Weekly Standard....
I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up
How the Audacity of Dopes Is Ruining America
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
**“Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is.” —Richard Nixon
“I believe America is the solution to the world’s problems.” —Rush Limbaugh
“SHUT THE F#CK UP.” —D. L. Hughley**
The American dream is in dire...
Eats, Poops & Leaves
The Essential Apologies, Rationalizations, and Downright Denials Every New Paren t Needs to Know and Other Fundamentals of Baby Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Because What You Don’t Know, Will Embarrass You.
What should you do if your baby shrieks at a wedding or “stealth vomits” on an innocent bystander? How can you use your child to avoid old friends you never liked in the first place? Is there a polite way to encourage cash baby-shower gifts...
Keep It Pithy
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With...
Ted Kennedy
The Dream That Never Died
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
In the most inspiring speech of his career, Ted Kennedy once vowed: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
Unlike his martyred brothers, John and Robert, whose lives were cut off...
by Jason Joseph, Rick Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
So ticked off you’re at a loss for words?
101 Ways to Flip the Bird provides 101 creative ways to express exactly how you feel. Arm yourself with the perfect bird for every occasion:
Some jerk cut you off in traffic?
Opt for the Classic Flip, also appropriate when protesting...