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Hothouse : the art of survival and the survival of art at America's most celebrated publishing house, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux / Boris Kachka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kachka, Boris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farrar, Straus, and Giroux--History.
- Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
- Publishers and publishing--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Publishers and publishing--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Authors and publishers--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Authors and publishers.
- History.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 432 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-404) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781451691894
- 1451691890
- 9781451691917
- 1451691912
- OCLC:
- 830680346
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