Aug 19, 2022
Jonathan
Landgrebe is the publisher of Suhrkamp Verlag. We met
at his offices in Berlin to talk about his role as head of one of
Germany's most revered publishing houses, and to riff off Siegfried
Unseld's book The Author and His Publisher.
Topics covered in our conversation include: important books that just don't...
Aug 13, 2022
Pamela Paul was books editor at
the New York Times from 2013 to March 2022 when she became an
opinion columnist for the newspaper.
We talk mostly about the role that
books editors play in the lifecycle of 'the book.' I also whine a
fair amount about how I don't like the fact that she left her
position plus we diverge...
Aug 7, 2022
Why listen to James
Marsh? Because he knows about love and
encyclopedias.
He grew up in The Junction district of
Toronto surviving a difficult childhood, and began his career in
publishing at Holt Rinehart and Winston where he was editor of a
Centennial history of Canada entitled Unity and Diversity.
He later became...
Jul 15, 2022
Nick Anthony is a writer, stand-up comic, and screen-writer. He's participating in this year's Prague Summer Program for Writers and his novel, tentatively entitled Two Hits of Acid in Cambodia, was just workshopped this past week.
We talk about the experience, but not before discussing magic, stand-up comedy writing;...
Jul 11, 2022
Why listen to Alexandra
Pringle? Because Richard Charkin told me that she's the
best editor in the English speaking world, that's why.
Alexandra was editor-in-chief at
Bloomsbury Publishing for more than two decades. She was recently
appointed Executive Publisher.
She began her publishing career at the
British...