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Mercury Publications , which mainly published genre fiction in digest-sized formats.
Mercury House, a project of Words Given Wings Literary Arts Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, is an independent literary publishing house based in San Francisco, California .
The press has published over 170 titles and is distributed by Small Press Distribution . Notable authors include Harold Brodkey , Carol Emshwiller , Shulamith Hareven , William Kittredge , and Leonard Michaels . Literary translations have included work from Alejo Carpentier , George Sand , Pierre Michon , Philippe Forest , and J. Rodolfo Wilcock . In addition, the press has published books of fiction, essay, poetry, and Holocaust and Environmental studies by David Meltzer , Dale Pendell , Philip Daughtry, and Lucille Eichengreen . The press also published a series of neglected literary classics by authors such as I.U. Tarchetti , Lewis Carroll , Henry Handel Richardson , and Horace Walpole . For several years Mercury House was the official publisher of the Nobel Prize Lecture and the National Society of Film Critics ' annual compendium of reviews.
The press was founded in 1986 by William M. Brinton (1920-2010)[ 1] Alev Croutier and granted nonprofit status in 1994. Governed by a Board of Directors and run by an Executive Director, the press has been funded by individual and corporate donations, and by grants from foundations including the California Arts Council , the Lannan Foundation , the National Endowment for the Arts , and the San Francisco Arts Commission .
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