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...lesson forgotten by many Americans but remembered by the Germans and Japanese: a dedication to quality is bound to pay off. With the returns now . in, it is clear that the star literary performer of 1987 was not an individual but the publishing house of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, a firm that has been publishing the best in fiction and nonfiction for more than 40 years...
...year Walker Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome and Philip Roth's The Counterlife held positions on the lists. The National Book Critics Circle named The Counterlife the best novel of 1987. In addition, the N.B.C.C. award for poetry went to C.K. Williams for Flesh and Blood, and another Farrar, Straus author, Larry Heinemann, won a National Book Award for his novel Paco's Story. Joseph Brodsky's Nobel Prize for Literature was a welcome honor, but then the publisher has no fewer than six other living laureates on its list: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Elias Canetti, Wole Soyinka, Czeslaw...
...this seems to have been accomplished on a shoestring. Farrar, Straus is well known for skimpy salaries. It has occupied the same dingy office space in downtown Manhattan -- far out of the midtown orbit of most of the giant firms -- for more than 20 years. Wolfe politely describes the low-rent decor as a "nice saggy-book look." The waiting area contains a desk and a single metal chair. But then no one waits very long. The thing authors like best about FS&G is that they get to meet the people who work there. Says Brodsky: "Other publishers could...
...Coast families noted for their philanthropic activities. Straus put up $50,000 to help start FS&G after World War II. He insists that he does not subsidize the company with his own money, although he admits to having used his personal line of credit when things got tight. Farrar, Straus' sales have gone up 50% in the past two years, although up from what remains private information, one of the advantages of not being part of a publicly held corporation...
...jungle also occupies William Steig, who, at 80, has found the source of eternal juvenilia. The proof is in his 21st children's book, The Zabajaba Jungle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $13.95). The author-illustrator enters the imagination of Leonard, a small rover who cuts his way through underbrush populated with beaky toucans and blue-bottomed mandrills. After a series of hilarious escapades, the boy encounters the most unexpected creatures of all: his mother and father. They look relieved to see him, and why not? What are young explorers for except to rescue grownups...