Hothouse the art of survival and the survival of art at America's most celebrated publishing house, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
An account of the book publisher who is home to more Nobel Prize-winning writers than any other publishing house in the world reveals the era and city that built FSG through the stories of two men--Roger Straus and Robert Giroux.
| Main Author: | Kachka, Boris. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2013.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. A long and beautiful life
- An "our crowd" story
- Furor, stress
- The Golden Boy of publishing
- Protestant, Catholic, Jew
- Not a new look but a nice view
- The new sensibility
- King of the book fair
- Egg-bound
- This classy little yacht
- A fraught summer
- A little less hothouse literary
- The day of the jackal
- Profit and loss
- Chairman
- An embarrassment of riches
- Change.