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Farrar, Straus Publisher Jonathan Galassi Carefully Assures Staff: ‘We Are...
In the paper today, the first half of Pub Crawl focuses on the layoffs that shook up Farrar, Straus and Giroux on Monday as a result of the 64 job cuts ordered by the C.E.O. of the group’s parent...
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Lineup for December 17, 2008
Why are magazine companies cutting their Web staffs? According to John Koblin, in the current climate "it appears a portion of the magazine world, which was never a quick adapter to the Web anyway, is...
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New York’s Boris Kachka Preparing to Write Book About Farrar, Straus and Giroux
New York publishing reporter Boris Kachka is getting ready to write a book about Farrar, Straus and Giroux, according to a newsletter issued by Dystel & Goderich, the agency repping him on the...
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Best of Everything II: Is There Any Glamour Left in Publishing?
ICM agent Binky Urban does not believe it would be possible to write much of a novel about modern book publishing. “What is there to say?” she said by phone Monday. “It’s such an internal, sort of...
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Wells Tower, Fiction Writer, Is Looking for Joy
“Being a human being isn’t just all misery and despair. There’s a lot of available joy out there, even if we don’t often find it. I think that fiction should find opportunities for joy.” Sitting in his...
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Denise Oswald Leaps From Stolid FSG Right into Soft Skull
Denise Oswald didn’t expect to find a steady publishing job for a good long while when layoffs at Macmillan in December forced her to leave her longtime home at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Like many of...
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FSG’s Jonathan Galassi Interviewed in Poets & Writers
Grove editor Jofie Ferrari-Adler’s Poets & Writers interviews with editors and agents are pretty much always essential reading, but this month’s sit-down with Farrar, Straus and Giroux publisher...
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Sean McDonald Heads to FSG
Sean McDonald is leaving Riverhead Books for Farrar, Straus & Giroux, reports The Awl. Here’s how The Observer described him back in 2003, when he was but an emergent “Power Punk”: Big, quiet,...
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FSG to Publish Marilyn Monroe
FSG isn’t the first publisher you’d associate with celebrity books. But when they do go the movie-star route, they do it in the most old-school way possible. Promising to reveal “a very different side...
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Coming Soon to a Subway Near You: The New Franzen
The galleys for Jonathan Franzen’s much anticipated new novel, Freedom, are finally out. Jeff Seroy of FSG confirmed that they were sent last week, but are only just now getting into people’s hands–it...
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FSG Anthologizes The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40
The New Yorker ran their much-anticipated “20 Under 40″ list in this week’s issue–and now Farrar, Straus and Giroux has announced that they’ll be publishing a paperback anthology of the chosen ones. 20...
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Sontag’s Media List: NYRB, The Times, Penthouse
Farrar, Straus and Giroux just introduced Work in Progress, a “monthly missive from the front lines of literature,” i.e. a website and email newsletter. At the moment, the site offers interviews...
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New Yorker Book Blog Checks In With FSG, Penguin, and Hachette As Worst Week...
The New Yorker‘s Book Bench blogger Thessaly La Force emailed a few people who work at publishing houses around town and asked them to submit reactions to all the bad news that came out during this...
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Severe Layoffs at Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Associate Publisher Linda...
The staff of Farrar, Straus & Giroux were informed today that the layoffs many in the company have been expecting since last month are actually happening. Among those known at this time to be...
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Macmillan Cuts 64 Positions; FSG’s Subsidiary Rights Department to Merge With...
Still no official word from Farrar, Straus & Giroux about the layoffs that were announced today, but Media Mob has confirmed that director of subsidiary rights Michael Hathaway’s position has been...
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FSG Director of Publicity: Sorry, No Statement from Galassi Forthcoming
Farrar, Straus and Giroux publisher Jonathan Galassi will not issue any official statement on the layoffs that rocked his publishing house today, director of publicity Jeff Seroy just told Media Mob....
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FSG Feels Icy Bite in Publishing Freeze
There were a few desperate hours on Monday morning when the layoffs taking place at Farrar, Straus and Giroux seemed like they were being carried out with an unsettling degree of spontaneity. To be...
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The Problem Child: Why Won’t America Publish Sheila Heti’s Second Novel?
“We live in an age of some really great blow-job artists,” begins the fiction piece in the latest issue of the literary journal n+1. “Every era has its art form. The nineteenth century, I know, was...
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Galway Kinnell, 1927-2014
It was a heady time, working at Farrar Straus Giroux in the early 1990s. Roger Straus held court in the office, wearing a cravat, sometimes even in summer. He ate at Union Square Cafe every single...
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Pat Kiernan Is ‘in the Papers’ for Book Deal
NY1 morning news anchor and reason we don’t mind putting up with Time Warner cable Pat Kiernan has signed a deal for a picture book called Wake Up City “about the many ways the various inhabitants of...
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