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Long out of print―and an underground favorite of publishers and writers―this gathering celebrates in their own words an endangered species: the literary editor.
First published in 1980, The Art of Literary Publishing is also a how-to manual for literate survival in an age of corporate gigantism; it features legendary voices from the past and present in twenty-four chapters by Cleanth Brooks, Maxwell Perkins, John Farrar, Maurice Girodias, James Laughlin, William Phillips, Saxe Commins, John Galassi, Simon Michael Bessie, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Smith, Ishmael Reed, Theodore Solotaroff, and others, plus a new introduction by the editor."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Bill Henderson is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2006 National Book Critic Circle’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. He is also the author of several memoirs, including All My Dogs: A Life. The founder of the Lead Pencil Club, Henderson lives in New York.
From Library Journal:
This volume offers 24 chapters from an assortment of heavyweights of the book trade who discuss all facets of the literary publishing house. Included is an interview with New Directions' founder James Laughlin, John Farrar's letter to an unpublished writer, Scribner's legendary editor Max Perkins's memoir of publishing Thomas Wolfe, and much more. It still holds true that "most libraries should own this book" (LJ 3/15/80).
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- ISBN 10 0916366146
- ISBN 13 9780916366148
- BindingPaperback
- EditorHenderson Bill
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