There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes. I had an odd, vertiginous sense of unreality reading Hothouse, by New York's Boris Kachka, about the publishing house where I've worked for the past quarter-century, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. I loved reading the spiky, spicy evocation of the company's good old days. But the story of those years casts a shadow on the current life of the company, and I found myself wondering: Do the book-publishing cynics have it wrong, or do I?
The Head of FSG Reflects on Hothouse -- Vulture
Tags in Links Topics
Amazon
Authors
Bestselling authors
Book sales
Children's authors
Children's books
Children's publishing
Crime-writing
Crime fiction
Crime writer
e-books
Indie authors
Poems
Poetry
Poets
Prizes
Publishers
Publishing
Publishing houses
Publishing industry
Publishing world
Readers
Reading
Self-published writers
Self-publishers
Self-publishing
Writers
Writers' careers
Writers' craft
Writers' stories
Writing
Writing habits