Publishing -- The rules of the game and how the game was played -- The landscape in Paris -- The fertile crescent -- Pirating -- How to pirate a book -- Portraits of pirates -- Underground Geneva -- A confederation of pirates -- The struggle to pirate Rousseau and Voltaire: Insi…
This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality.
"Breaking new ground in the study of British literary culture during an important, transitional period, this new work by Mary Ann Gillies focuses on the professional literary agent whose emergence in Britain around 1880 coincided with and accelerated the transformation of both p…
"Breaking new ground in the study of British literary culture during an important, transitional period, this new work by Mary Ann Gillies focuses on the professional literary agent whose emergence in Britain around 1880 coincided with and accelerated the transformation of both p…
Singular books -- Publishing as a literary genre -- A letter to a stranger -- Giulio Einaudi -- Luciano Foà -- Peter Suhrkamp -- Vladimir Dimitrijević -- Faire plaisir -- The obliteration of publisher identity -- Aldo Manuzio's fly sheet "An interior look at Roberto Calasso's w…
"The editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster writes with wit and candor about becoming the editor of The New Yorker, and the challenges and satisfactions of running America's preeminent magazine, "--NoveList
Essential English: for journalists, editors and writers
by Evans, Harold, Gillan, Crawford
fromPIMLICO
A guide to the use of words as tools of communication, written primarily for journalists but of value to all who have to convey information by the written or printed word.
