Exactly what is HarperCollins publishing?
Posted on January 18th, 2007 – 2:57 PMBy Michael Rand
The publishing company already sacked “If I did it,” the train wreck of an idea in which O.J. Simpson was to detail exactly how he did kill would have killed his ex-wife. And now they have put the kibosh on “7: The Mickey Mantle Novel,” a pseudo-memoir about the ex-Yankees slugger which was set to go on sale in March but apparently enraged his family. What else is in the hopper, HarperCollins? “A Pictorial History of Jose Canseco’s Nude Sudokus?” Or perhaps “Smoking in the Post: The Stojko Vrankovic Story.”
Update: Will Leitch, the man with the magic fingers over at Deadspin, points out to RandBall that there is one book HarperCollins still plans to publish: His. “The Ballad of Ron Mexico.” Due out in fall 2007, or at least scheduled to be until Will falls prey to some terrible scandal involving a nectarine and a shaved yak.
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Write in votes:
“Small Particulate Matter: The Post-Landry Years”
“Dance, Dance Revolution: The day Mark Madsen Changed Caucasion Dancing Forever”
“How to Lead the World in Close Personal Friends While Verbally Abusing Thousands”
How about, “They offered me money to ‘Smoot’ the players: The unauthorized biography of an Al & Alma’s employee”?
I heard about Marko Jaric’s recent shenanigan’s in a local nightclub in the press release for his biography, “Fornicate by Number: The Marko Jaric Coloring Book” which features illustrations of Marko getting it on with women in the various cities he could be traded to.
Damn you, Jewish Cabal at Harpers!
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