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Trade books make up the third and most uncertain domain of the publishing landscape. Still, 250-odd firms are now in this field-perhaps because it offers by far the most intellectual excitement, perhaps because it is so easy to enter. Anyone with a manuscript and a few thousand dollars can do it. In 1951, the Witkower Press, a one-man, one-book publishing house in Hartford, Conn., brought out Arthritis and Common Sense, and has since sold over 250,000 copies...
Finding that 4% is like betting on a two-year-old maiden race. Two publishers turned down the manuscript of a Gilmanton, N.H., housewife named Grace Metalious before Publisher Julian Messner gambled...
...National Library sustained the worst damage in the city. Valuable manuscript collections were lost and more than 50 million documents along with hundreds of thousands of volumes in the archives, among them the only complete collection of 19th-century Italian newspapers, were damaged or destroyed. At the Gabinetto Vieussiecux (the library of Italian culture and history), archives, furniture and books, as well as the ground floor of the Palazzo Strozzi, received extensive damage...
...time the manuscript was completed in 1958-seven years after they had started-it ran to 850 pages, and Houghton Mifflin, which had contracted for it, turned it down. Reluctantly, the three girls cut it to 684 pages-still too long for Houghton Mifflin, but not for Gourmet Alfred Knopf, who brought it out in 1961, and has been watching the sales soar ever since. . Three Pounds to Go. When Paul Child resigned the same year, he and Julia moved into the pleasant, intellectual community of Cambridge, Mass., buying the house once owned by famed Harvard Philosopher Josiah Royce...
Having seen several recent productions of Georg Buechner's cryptic drama Woyzeck, I still cannot understand the fascination it holds for young directors. Buechner died at 23 in 1837. He left behind, among other writings, a jumbled, partly illegible manuscript of an unfinished play based on the real-life case of Johann Christian Woyzeck, an army barber executed in 1824 for the murder of his mistress. The order of scenes in this manuscript is indeterminate; some scenes are mere fragments. The ending of the play is unclear. The dialogue in both the German original and most translations borders on psychotic...