Art of Literary Publishing - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916366146 ISBN 13: 9780916366148

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"Informative, provocative, entertaining." Library Journal

"A unique, over-the-editor's shoulder perspective on the survival of quality in a world of slickness." Publishers Weekly

"A fascinating symposium." Washington Post

"Against all odds . . . heartening." Christian Science Monitor

Publishers Weekly

Library Journal

Washington Post

Christian Science Monitor

Library Journal

Washington Post

Christian Science Monitor

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.

About this edition

• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0916366146
• ISBN 13: 9780916366148
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Henderson Bill