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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.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kachka, Boris
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux > History.
Publishers and publishing > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Publishers and publishing > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Authors and publishers > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
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.

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