Hothouse
Subtitle: the art of survival and the survival of art at America's most celebrated publishing house, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
By: Boris Kachka
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Limited
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781451691894; 9781451691917
Subjects: Authors and publishers; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; Publishers and publishing; Biography; History
Other titles: Hothouse Farrar Straus & Giroux
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-404) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. A long and beautiful life; title: An "our crowd" story; title: Furor, stress; title: The Golden Boy of publishing; title: Protestant, Catholic, Jew; title: Not a new look but a nice view; title: The new sensibility; title: King of the book fair; title: Egg-bound; title: This classy little yacht; title: A fraught summer; title: A little less hothouse literary; title: The day of the jackal; title: Profit and loss; title: Chairman; title: An embarrassment of riches; title: Change.