Mercury House (publishers)

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Mercury House is also the name of an independent trade book publishing company, based in San Francisco, that focuses largely (though not exclusively) on literary and environmental titles. Among the notable writers published by the press are Harold Brodkey, Carol Emshwiller, Shulamith Hareven, William Kittredge, and Leonard Michaels. For several years Mercury House was the official publisher of the Noble Prize Lecture and the National Society of Film Critics' annual compendium of reviews. Latino-interest titles have included Alejo Carpentier's The Harp and the Shadow and Severo Sarduy's Christ on the Rue Jacob, and Asian-interest titles have included Lao-tzu's Taoteching and Sung-po Jen's Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom, among others. Mercury House also published a series of neglected literary classics by authors such as I. U. Tarchetti, Lewis Carroll, Henry Handel Richardson, and Horace Walpole.