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...Erik Farrar was named Harvard men’s and women’s water polo coach by Director of Athletics Robert Scalise on Tuesday, less that one month removed from Scott Russell’s controversial dismissal after just one season at the helm...
...Blunt Man of the Book When Roger Straus, the flamboyant co-founder and editor in chief of publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux, died in May at age 87, the literary world lost one of its most colorful characters [MILESTONES, June 7]. TIME profiled Straus in 1988, when his company was reaping prizes and profits...
DIED. ROGER STRAUS, 87, the dominant force in the publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux; in New York City. An heir to the Guggenheim fortune, he teamed up with John Farrar to form one of America's most prestigious independent publishers, whose roster of celebrated authors included T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer and Isaac Bashevis Singer. "Newspapers wrap up fish," he once said. "Books are in the library forever...
...DIED. ROGER STRAUS JR., 87, sharp-tongued and fiercely independent co-founder of publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux, whose roster of authors has included T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor and Tom Wolfe; in New York City. A critic of the publishing industry's overcommercialization, Straus, who started the business with John Farrar in 1946, sold out to a European conglomerate in 1994 but managed to retain a high degree of editorial autonomy. Publishing houses run by conglomerates, he said, "could just as well be selling string, spaghetti or rugs...
...Tongue (Random House, South Africa) she explores the many changes during South Africa's first decade of freedom, from food to the way a town's sewage system works. Exciting new writer Zakes Mda also mines South Africa's past for his feisty novel, The Madonna of Excelsior (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a fictionalized account of the arrest in 1971 of 19 small-town citizens for breaking the Immorality Act by having sex across the color line. Like so much in South Africa - past and present - expect it to challenge your prejudices...