Sticking Place Books is a New York-based publisher specialising in cinema, offering interview books, memoirs, critical and historical studies, and essay collections. Our catalogue includes books by and about Guillermo Arriaga, Damien Chazelle, Brian De Palma, Werner Herzog, Abbas Kiarostami, Stanley Kubrick, David Mamet, Pierre Rissient, Bruce Joel Rubin, Carlos Saura, Preston Sturges, Peter Whitehead and Paul Williams. Authors published by SPB include John Baxter, Kevin Brownlow, Godfrey Cheshire, Ian Christie, Michel Ciment, Peter Cowie, John Lahr, Ross Lipman, Leonard Maltin, Joseph McBride, Patrick McGilligan, Scott MacDonald, Adrian Martin, James Naremore, Richard Peña, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Nat Segaloff, Anthony Slide and David Sterritt.

We are always interested in hearing from authors, whether first-time or established. Find us at info@stickingplacebooks.com.

Sticking Place Books was established in 2015 by Paul Cronin, the editor of Alexander Mackendrick’s On Film-Making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director, Werner Herzog’s A Guide for the Perplexed, Abbas Kiarostami’s Lessons with Kiarostami, and books about Arthur Penn, Roman Polanski, Sydney Pollack, George Stevens, Amos Vogel, Peter Whitehead and Paul Williams. He has translated several titles from French for Sticking Place Books, and is near completion on a series of books by and about Alexander Mackendrick. Aware of the frustrations experienced by authors when working with traditional publishers, Paul collaborates one-to-one with all SPB authors, personally supervising every stage of the process, from submission to publication.

Our Senior Editor is Stacey Knecht, an American translator and editor living in the Netherlands. She translates literary works from Hungarian, Dutch, Czech and Spanish. Her English translation of De imágenes también se viva, the memoir of renowned Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura, will be published in 2026 by Sticking Place Books. Stacey is also founder and director of the Books Away From Home Foundation, which provides refugee children with books in their native language.

Our Editorial Consultant is London-based Daniel Rosenthal, who has been a freelance film and theatre historian, journalist and lecturer since 1996. He has written for The Guardian, The Observer and The Times. His books include Shakespeare on Screen (Hamlyn, 2000), 100 Shakespeare Films (BFI, 2007) and The National Theatre Story (Oberon, 2013), which won the Theatre Book Prize. From 2002 to 2006, he was Editor of International Film Guide, and from 2010 to 2018 he taught two undergraduate courses, “Film and Theatre Journalism” and “Screen Adaptation: Theory and Practice,” for the Pembroke–King’s Programme at the University of Cambridge.