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...wanted to make the University realize that while we can protest loudly and visibly we are also willing to do it rationally and responsibly," says Evan O. Grossman '87, one of the leading activists...
...wanted to make the University realize that while we can protest loudly and visibly we are also willing to do it rationally and responsibly," says Evan O. Grossman '87, one of the leading activists...
...York," grumbled a California editor last year, "they are convinced that nothing can happen except in the area of Manhattan bounded by the lounge of the Algonquin and the dining room of the Four Seasons." Then came Evan Connell's Son of the Morning Star, a brilliant account of General George Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn. It climbed the best-seller list and remained there for six months. Not for the first time, the industry was forced to admit that some of the nation's better publishing houses are located a world away from New York...
...talkers was Evan Connell, whose earlier hits, Mrs. Bridge (Viking; 1959) and Mr. Bridge (Knopf; 1969), had been published by Manhattan-based companies. He found North Point Press "invariably courteous," and when they offered him attractive royalties and a substantial advance, he signed on. Every aspect of production was negotiated, a sharp variance from the dictatorial New York style. "Evan didn't want photographs in the book," Turnbull remembers. "We felt they might make it more salable to history buffs. Evan won." But the author conceded another point: he provided a detailed index...
...Sparrow Press, located in a sunny villa some 300 miles south of North Point in Santa Barbara, is an even smaller house. Its staff of six includes John Martin, 54, publisher, and his wife Barbara, 45, designer. The Martins, who work out of their home, are relentlessly noncommercial: "If Evan Connell came to me with a Custer book," claims Martin, "I wouldn't be interested in publishing it." Black Sparrow began in 1966, when Martin, then an office- supply executive, sold his valuable collection of D.H. Lawrence first editions and decided to go into business for himself. He sedulously imitated...